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Chapter 267
Chapter 267
Chapter 267
Recalling what his mommy had told him earlier, Renfrew instantly changed his lines. Besides dying, the
scariest thing in the world would be not being able to eat delicious food….
Rickard had never been very competent at coaxing children. He thought that if it was Hesper who ran
into this situation, she would probably pat Renfrew on the head and utter the “touch wood” phrase, and
the issue would end there.
However, all he did was stay dumbfounded for a while before rubbing Renfrew’s collar.
“Yeah, I understand. I won’t make Mommy sad anymore.”
‘It seems that even a child knows that I caused Hesper a lot of suffering back then.”
Rickard turned his head and looked at Hesper who was not far away from them. She had her head
lowered as she unbuttoned the wrongly buttoned shirt of the kid sitting next to her, giving off a gentle
smile.
In fact, Hesper had never been someone who was very good at coaxing others either, but she had
always been very patient when she was around children.
Although she had not been by Renfrew’s side these years, she had learned how to be a qualified
mother.
“Then you have to do something to coax Mommy. She’s also a very fragile human being.” Renfrew
widened his eyes and then said, “Let’s go. Let’s win a championship trophy for Mommy. We’re boys, so
we have to take the initiative to coax the girls!” Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.
There was no suspense about the result of the games as Renfrew’s family crushed the other families
and won the first kindergarten sports day championship.
The prize for the first-place winner was a small strawberry cake. After thinking about it, Renfrew gave
the cake to Rickard.
“Daddy, use this cake to coax Mommy. Ms. Zeelen is summoning us!” Renfrew put the cake box firmly
in Rickard’s palms, turned around, and went off to look for his teacher. “Good luck!”
Rickard was holding onto the cake, which had been turned into an attractive pink block because of the
addition of food coloring, and could not help but feel uneasy, as this was one of the most embarrassing
moments that he had ever experienced in the past thirty years.
Hesper leaned against the wall not far away and looked at him, watching as he walked up to her, lifted
the cake, and held it right in front of her face.
“Er… This is the prize.” Rickard lowered his head, and his keen gaze slumped downward. He looked
like a beast that had retracted its sharpest claws and then showed its soft belly to her without any
reservations.
Hesper could not help but burst into laughter.
When Hesper smiled, deep dimples would appear, one on each cheek and at the corners of her lips.
Rickard did not know if he had done something right and had managed to coax her. Anyway, it seemed
like he had not seen Hesper smile so heartily in the past several years.
‘Somehow… this is worth it. Even when she got her wish fulfilled and married me back then, those
pretty, bright eyes of hers were filled with uncertainty. Plus, while it might have been her wish to marry
me, it was definitely no dream-come-true moment.’
Thinking of the past, Rickard frowned while looking at the woman who was smiling right in front of him.
All the guilt he had never felt before surged from the bottom of his heart, and he could hardly breathe.
Just how devastated she must have felt back then?”
Hesper glanced at Rickard then lowered her head and looked at the strawberry cake in her hand, which
did not look expensive at all. For some reason, she remembered the wedding that she and Rickard had
had years ago.
Under Ernest’s instructions and close inspection, that wedding was not rushed. All the details of the
ceremony and banquet were decided by a wedding designer and then executed flawlessly.
‘Perhaps he has long forgotten that the cake that we had at the wedding was strawberry-flavored too.”
She looked at the perfunctory man beside her, and as the mouthful of cake slowly melted in her mouth,
all she tasted were hints of bitterness.