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Chapter 183
Chapter 183
Chapter 183
After listening to Hesper’s words, Renfrew fell asleep in satisfaction. Hesper then turned off the lamp
and walked out of the room, unable to hold her tears back anymore.
Rickard did not come the next day. Some urgent matters came up all of a sudden, and he had to deal This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.
with them. Even though he thought about coming over again, he could not just leave the company to
fend for itself.
“Did Hesper and Renfrew arrive at the kindergarten safely?”
Benji gave him an affirmative answer and started to read through today’s itinerary. He then saw Rickard
frown and stopped.
“What’s the matter, sir? Is there anything wrong with today’s schedule?”
Rickard remained silent for a while and then voiced out, “It’s too compact.”
“What?” Benji thought he had heard wrongly for a moment.
‘What the heck?! What did my workaholic boss just say? Did I just hear him complain about his
schedule being too compact?”
“Sir, are you sick?” Benji looked at Rickard worriedly, but Rickard looked healthy and fine.
Thinking of this, Benji remembered that Rickard had to fetch Hesper too now.
When Rickard did not say anything, Benji suggested. “If you want to pick Ms. Rivera up from school,
we can move this afternoon’s video conference to the evening. What do you think about that?”
“School?” Rickard frowned. “What school? Is she studying in some school now?”
This time it was Benji’s turn to stay silent.
‘I got to know about this matter from the people studying at Genecity University. I assumed that Mr.
Duval would know about it too. After all, before Ms. Lane gave birth to Young Master Renfrew, Mr.
Duval invested in renovating the entire art academy of Genecity University. On the surface, he claimed
that it was the grandeur that the missus of the Duvals deserves, but in fact, all he wanted was to give
her a
surprise.
‘However, Mr. Duval actually had no idea about Ms. Lane’s decision to return to school?’
After listening to the whole story, Rickard was a little surprised too.
‘Hesper’s current educational background shows that she’s an alumnus of Evergreen College, which
isn’t something that can be used as a weak point to sabotage her when she’s announced as the
director of a company. I remember that she studied fashion design in college, so what she learned back
then shouldn’t be of too much help to her in managing Lane Holdings.”
“Is it possible that Ms. Lane likes that major?” Benji tentatively brought up.
Rickard subconsciously wanted to refute him, but he shut up all of a sudden and did not utter a single
word after that.
‘I don’t know what Hesper likes, or should I say, in the past, she never gave any hints on what she
loved to do. She always acted like a puppet back then. All she did was tackle everything that came into
her life submissively, and that was it.
‘So does Hesper really like fashion design?”
“I recall that one of our subsidiary companies will be organizing a competition soon, and it’s about
costume design.”
Duval Group had been dabbling in the fashion field, but it was not the main source of the company’s
profit, so Benji usually wouldn’t report such matters to Rickard. Since it was related to Hesper, however,
he thought it was something worth mentioning.
“We’ve reserved two spots for students of Genecity University, and a professor named Xavier Jenkins
is in charge of the allocations. I heard that Ms. Lane was once one of Professor Jenkins’ favorite
students, so she might participate in this competition.”
Rickard had not paid any attention to the mentioned competition, but when he heard that Hesper might.
participate in it, he froze for a split second.
“If your information is accurate, reserve a seat for me.”
“Yes, sir.”
At that moment, Hesper, whom Benji entrusted with great hope, was being scolded in Xavier’s office
with her head bowed.
“I thought your wings had grown full-fledged back then, but you actually came back here to study.”