A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love

"Is Hesper not back yet?"

Rickard frowned and asked Renfrew to give Hesper a call to check on her. However, Renfrew made a few calls but none of them went through.

It had turned into a storm outside.

"Mr. Duval..."

When the help walked in, Rickard already put on his coat and said, "Boil some ginger tea and add more sugar." He left the room after saying that.

Mrs. Potter watched him walk away, sighed, then closed the window of the balcony so that the flowers that Rickard did so much to save would survive the storm.

Meanwhile, Hesper quietly counted the seconds that ticked by. More than an hour passed, so the chances of someone suddenly coming back to the office or the electricity coming back on were very small. She put her hand to her forehead. Unsurprisingly, she had a fever.

"No... I can't stay here."

Hesper struggled to stand up, then returned to her office to look for some sharp object to smash the door open. Even though it was going to be difficult to explain what happened the next day, that was all she could do.

Fortunately, they had a glass door. Even though it was tempered glass, she managed to break it after hitting the same spot a few times.

The door was locked from the inside, so Hesper managed to get out.

What she wasn't expecting was that it was just the beginning of her nightmare.

She walked half a block but didn't see any cars on the road. Everyone was hiding after getting a storm alert, and since Eustoma was in a less populated area, cars would rarely pass by on a normal day. The subway station wasn't too far away. Hesper was wet from head to toe, so she didn't mind walking a little more.

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She intended to go to the hospital at first, but when she opened her eyes on the train, she was already almost home.

There weren't a lot of people at the station, so Hesper thought that if she took the train back to the hospital, more problems might arise, so she should just go home and take care of her wound by herself first, then call a doctor for a house visit later.

Walking out of the station, the rain was still heavy. Hesper shook her head because her eyes had turned blurry, but in the next second, she fell over.

She was curious why she didn't feel pain, so she slowly opened her closed eyes and realized that there was just rain in front of her eyes and she couldn't see anything. All she knew was someone had caught her.

"...Thank you."

That person seemed to have shaken her but her entire body felt cold. She then lost consciousness.

"Hesper, Hesper?"

Rickard held her in his arms, but since he was looking for her in the rain, he didn't have a lot of body heat, so all he could do was tap on her face. "Don't fall asleep." Hesper frowned and moaned. Rickard carried her in his arms and went straight home.

"Oh lord. Cme in quick!"

Mrs. Potter prepared a towel. When she saw Rickard and Hesper arriving soaked, she ran over. "What happened? Ms. Rivera... is burning! She has a fever!"

Rickard put her down on the couch and called the doctor. All he wanted was to get home as soon as possible and didn't notice that Hesper had a fever.

All he could think of was the pain she had in her legs.