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Chapter 70
Chapter 70
Chapter 70
Rickard wanted to say something, but a commotion could already be heard coming from behind him.
Hesper stared at him indifferently. “Do you still want to subdue me here?”
Rickard did not budge at all, and during this short period of hesitation, Isaac had already caught up to
them with the other bodyguards and shielded Hesper behind him immediately.
“Ms. Lane, are you okay?”
“Yes.” Hesper shook her head. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
She then turned toward Rickard and said coldly, “I’ll make myself clear now once and for all. I don’t
wish to see what happened today happen ever again. So, Mr. Duval, please pay more attention to your
future actions!”
She turned around with the men, ready to leave with them.
Rickard was still not reconciled, so he gnashed his teeth and asked, ” Even if you have nothing to say
to me, what about our son? You’ve been away for three years. Don’t you plan to meet him again?”
Hesper stopped for a split second.
‘Why would I not want to see him? I’m the one who gave birth to him. I’ve never stopped thinking about
my baby every second of those three years.’
But she did not look back and straightened her posture. “That’s none of your business too, so stop
intervening in my affairs.”
After saying so, the group of people strode away.
At this time, Benji caught up to Rickard. Seeing him standing alone in
the corridor, he asked cautiously, “Mr. Duval, the young lady…”
Rickard remained silent. The man who had always been aloof could not help but feel an indescribable
loneliness at that moment.
Benji thought for a bit and comforted him. “The young lady has changed a lot in the past few years.
Perhaps she still hasn’t let go of the past, and that’s why she still has a very repulsive attitude towards
you. I think it’ll improve as time goes by.”
Thinking of the changes that had happened to her, countless doubts appeared at the top of Rickard’s
mind. “Go and find out how she became the director of Lane Holdings. And who are those bodyguards
who were addressing her as Ms. Lane just now? It’s best to get to the bottom of what she’s done in the
past three years.”
“Okay, I’m on it.” Benji agreed immediately.
‘We couldn’t find anything before this, but now that the young lady has resurfaced, it’ll be much easier
to investigate from now on. But…’
He suddenly remembered something and handed a document to Rickard. “Mr. Duval, we’ve got our
hands on more information about the person who hired those men to drug the young lady back then.
Ms. Duval was indeed the one who did it. And Madam Duval… She probably knows about it too.”
Because they had found a large amount of money being transferred to that man through Sophia’s bank
account, and the amount was so large that it was not a number that Sophia could pay out of her own
pocket at the time, that could only mean one thing. There must be someone lending her a helping hand
from behind the curtains.
Thinking of his mother and sister doing such a thing without telling him, Rickard shivered for a split
second.
‘Hesper was still my wife back, and grandfather even showed his full support toward our marriage, yet
they still had the guts to do
something like this to her. So what would they do to her if she had no
one supporting her?’
Just thinking about it, Rickard could not help but feel infuriated.
“Let’s go, we’re heading back home.”
Sophia had become more obedient in the past two days, as she was afraid that she would do
something to provoke Rickard. She even treated Renfrew a lot better than she used to.
At the moment, she was watching a drama with Madam Duval in the living room, and she was not in
the mood to care about Renfrew, who was playing with Wanda at the side. If nothing had happened in
the past few days, she would have driven them out of the living room.
“Ma’am, miss, Mr. Duval has come back…” A servant came in and reported Rickard’s arrival, but
before she could finish the second half of her sentence, Rickard had already stepped into the villa.
When Sophia caught a glimpse of his expression, she subconsciously wanted to get out of the living
room but was halted by Rickard.” Where do you think you’re going?”