Chapter 47

But her calmness infuriated Rickard. He clenched his hands tightly, so much so that his knuckles gave off cracking noises. “Juniper has fallen ill because of you, and you still have the guts to deny everything?”

Hesper laughed out loud abruptly. “You’re the one who’s asking me if I did it. I’m telling you that I didn’t, but still, you choose not to believe me. Must I be the person who’s caused her to fall sick? Do you really think that I have such great capabilities that I can lay a finger on the regal Ms. Wight?”

A hint of hesitation flashed across Rickard’s face, but at that moment, two women entered the room, supporting Madam Duval.

“You slut, how dare you lie in front of so many witnesses! So many servants in the villa saw with their own eyes how you talked back to me and humiliated Sophia and Juniper!”

With snot and tears dribbling down all orifices on her face, she cried as she complained to Rickard, “Dick, she also said that even though she slept with another man, she’s stil