A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love

"Who told you that I only have this many?" Hesper chuckled and clapped her hands, imitating Carter's arrogant action from earlier. Then, the door of the conference room opened again. The person standing outside the door was someone that no one present could have guessed.

"...Mom?"

Juniper stood up, but Ariana did not look at her and walked to Hesper's side with a complicated expression.

"Mom, what do you mean by this? Why did you come here all of a sudden...? And why are you standing beside Hesper?" Juniper clenched her fists and looked at Ariana in disbelief. "Mom, stop this madness." "Mrs. Wight, please take the stage. The limelights is all on you now."

Ariana nodded, then looked at Juniper and let off a faint sigh. "I once thought about handing all the Wights' shares over to my daughter, Juniper. But after some consideration, I decided not to do so in the end." Juniper's eyes widened, and there was an uproar in the conference room.

"What are you talking about, Mom? I have the contract that you handed over to me back then. How could the shares not be in my possession?" Juniper frantically searched through all the contracts laying on the desk and finally found the one that she wanted.

"Look, this is my mother's signature, so this contract is legitimate..."

Ariana and Hesper exchanged gazes. Hesper pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows.

Ariana closed her eyes. "The shares that I've given you through that contract are of a subsidiary company of Duval Group. Look closer, it's clearly mentioned throughout the contract."

Before Ariana could finish her sentence, Juniper had already seen the sentence that mentioned the details of the shares and instantly froze in place.

"You lied to me?"

Seeing that things had come to a close, Carter and Juniper stared at the stack of papers in front of them, instantly becoming the biggest joke in the conference room.

Excluding the 5% that they thought belonged to Juniper, the shares that they owned were far from enough to compete with Hesper's, which also meant that they were destined to leave the conference empty- handed.

Juniper clutched the contract in her hand in disbelief and shook her head. "This is impossible... The shares should've already been transferred to me. Mom, you have to be lying, right? Do you know how important the shares are to me?!"

Listening to Juniper's hysterical questions, Ariana slightly calmed down a bit. "The shares that I own were originally a gift from Mr. Duval Sr. I'm human; I know what things can be touched and what shouldn't be. I can't just watch from the side as you sink deeper and deeper down the road. Juni, stop what you're doing and turn back now. There's still time."

Hesper sat on the chair, not surprised by everything that just happened.

'Becoming allies with Mrs. Wight was one of the best decisions I've ever made. If Mrs. Wight hasn't contacted me out of the blue, I don't think I could have overcome this situation today. But anyway, Duval Group has been saved.'

Carter looked at Hesper with a pale face. Hesper noticed and stared back at him calmly. The two of them exchanged gazes for quite some time without saying anything.

On the other hand, Benji was still trapped in a trance.

'Has Duval Group really been saved?'

Juniper seemed to have lost her mind. Her hand holding the contract trembled as she cried and giggled at the same time. Carter stood up and grabbed her by the arm with a dimmed expression.