Chapter 964 Get Back the Score
”What has Tessa ever done to you? Why did you do this?!” Sofia questioned in a deep, imposing voice. Tessa also turned to stare at Richelle in disgruntlement. She, of all people, wanted to know just why this woman would do such a thing.
Richelle felt so wronged and upset under their sharp, piercing gaze that she simply blurted all the dissatisfaction she had bottled up inside her.
”I did this because I admire you very much and want to be your student, but you didn’t have any thoughts of making me your student.” She sobbed, choked on her tears as though she was the victim, and whined, ”I know that you have high expectations, and maybe I have yet to reach your requirements. For the past couple of years, I’ve been practicing so hard, but you still didn’t pay any attention to me and even accepted Tessa as your last apprentice. I’m jealous of that and slowly began to resent her, so I…”
Tessa was dumbfounded when she heard Richelle’s complaints and felt that this disaster had descended upon her out of nowhere.
Sofia felt equally conflicted as she didn’t think that Richelle would go to such extremes just because she didn’t accept her as her student. Therefore, she set her sights on Tessa and brazenly took revenge on her instead.
At this moment, she was so overwhelmed with disappointment that she could only say, ”Although I do look at talent when I accept an apprentice, there are also other factors, such as a musician’s intuition.”
In other words, she never had and would never consider Richelle as a possible candidate to be her apprentice. When Richelle understood this, she was even more inconsolable.
”However, this isn’t an excuse for you to steal someone’s work, and you even sold it off. This isn’t just a misdemeanor due to a burst of impulsiveness, but a matter of character!” Sofia continued sharply, and Richelle gave her a hurt look. Nevertheless, Sofia ignored her and said sternly, ”I want you to apologize to Tessa now. Otherwise, I would have to ask you to leave. My band cannot accommodate someone with such a foul character!”
Richelle’s face turned stark white, and because the last thing she wanted was to be fired from the band, she eventually chose to apologize. ”I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have sold your music to someone else because I was jealous of you.”
Richelle appeared very pathetic, with her head hung low and her shoulders hunched, but Tessa didn’t have any sympathy for her. In her opinion, Richelle had brought this upon herself.
So, she decided to accept her apology, albeit with a condition as she replied coldly, ”Although I accept your apology, you’ll have to get my sheet music back if you want to put an end to this matter.”
After all, this sheet music was her gift to Nicholas, and she didn’t want anyone to misuse it.
A perplexed look washed over Richelle’s face at her words because she knew Vernon’s character. It was literally impossible to retrieve the sheet music back from a person like him.
Regardless, before she could say anything, Sofia also voiced her agreement over such a decision, ”Since Tessa had already said that, get the sheet music back, and we’ll sweep this issue under the rug.”
Because of Sofia, Richelle could only bite the bullet and agree. So then, on the very same afternoon, she made a trip to Vernon’s studio.
”So, you want me to remove my new song and return the original score to you?” Vernon repeated in the reception room as though he couldn’t believe what he had just heard.
Richelle, seated on a couch across from him, nodded without any confidence. ”That’s right.”
”Are you kidding me, missy? You’re the one who gave that score to me. What makes you think I should give it back to you now?” Vernon pointed out with a look of ridicule. ”In addition, if I remove my song now, that’s as good as admitting that I stole it.”
A dumbfounded Richelle didn’t know how to refute him, so she could only say doggedly, ”But you’re not the one who composed this song, to begin with.”
”So what? It’s fine as long as I hold all of its rights,” Vernon retorted nonchalantly. ”I don’t care how you got your hands on this music score and what complications it has caused you. All of that is unrelated to me.”
Those words were as good as saying that he would definitely not return this sheet music.
After Richelle heard his shameless proclamation, no words could describe how much regret she currently felt. If she had known this, she wouldn’t have handed the score to this guy.
Despite that, the most important thing now was to get the score back. ”Aren’t you worried that our band will pursue you for plagiarizing?”
She tried using the band’s reputation in an attempt to make Vernon budge.
