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"This is impossible." Penny looked at the marriage certificate in between her fingers. "Since when did I get married?" @

Penny studied the printouts in her hand. The woman in the certificate was definitely her, but this man... Penny couldn't recall ever meeting him. The man in the certificate had a well-proportioned face with symmetrical facial features. He had a strong, defined jawline, adding a masculine look to him. His long, sharp, deep-set eyes were dark but very captivating.

Suddenly, Penny heard a knock from the window on her side. Winding down the window of the driver's seat, the man standing outside bent over.

"Why are you outside?" asked the man she hired for this sham wedding. "I've been waiting for you! Don't you want to get married?"

"Uh." Penny cleared her throat. "There's no need for this wedding anymore."

"Oh. Alright! Then, goodbye!"

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The man fashed her one quick smile before he sprinted away. Her face twitchard, Wouldn't he ask her why she didn't need to do the wedding? He just took

off to avoid the talk of the payment she already sent

him

"s not like I'm going to ask for a refund she mumbled setting her attention to the paper in her hand "Seriously How can one get married without

their permission"

As Penny wondered about this situation, her phone

Fang

"Hey! How's the wedding" asked the person from the

other end of the lar

"Well me and I'm married"

Congrate

Penny frowned, thinking Tugs didst get what she was trying to say "Tugs can you look up this man names..." Her eyes veered to her husband's name "Zoren

Pierson

90's that?"

"That's what I want to find out. I call you again later"

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Penny ended the call and gazed at the certificate once again.

All her life, she had been waiting for this day to come.

The day she could marry herself off and leave her household. It was no secret that Penny had been wanting to get out of the family. It was for the best for everyone, especially for herself. However, no one knew Penny had another big secret.

This wasn't her first life.

She promised that in this lifetime, she would live it on her own terms. But now, that plan was slightly shaken by the man registered as her husband.

"I don't know if this is a good thing, but what I know is I have to fix this," she whispered as her eyelids

drooped. "I can't afford to make the same mistake I did in my first life."

Her first life ended in a tragedy. Thinking about it,

herself she couldn't afford

*

her life

"... didn't do it."

noticed was his untrimmed beard, his messy hair, and the dark bags under his eyes. This was her

once... please." Penny planted her hand on the glass as her eyes brimmed with tears. "... please, believe me. I didn't do it. I'm innocent.

me."

allure in them still

within them.

wouldn't be behind

Tears flooded her face as her

shook in desperation. "I

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it's true, Penny, it's over." Atlas smiled wryly. "You did what you did, and now we're

whimper escaped her tightly sealed lips as

and Slater... his career's dead too." Tears formed in the corner of his eyes as he gazed at

to have aged in prison just months after her trial ended. "Our lives are over, Penny. People see us as terrorists, enemies of the country, corrupt to the core. You proved that when you made

that so they wouldn't

grinding his teeth angrily. "I know you hate us, but you... you took it too far. Even

"Because I am!"

breath as he leaned forward. "Penny, you listen to me. Just... tell me, why did you do

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at her desperate brother, she didn't know what to say anymore. She had already told him everything

single word she said.

both her hands on the glass separating them. "And yet, I was still hopeful

as her tears

for too much. All she wanted was to be accepted by her brothers and treated as family. But alas, even at this moment, he still

you... there you go. You heard my reason. Did that give you enough peace now? I

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back.

I was finally going to have a good life since my family found me, you, Hugo, and

common ground with Hugo and even studied music and arts so there's something I could talk

help but laugh in ridicule, shaking his head in disbelief. "I knew it. I knew you were

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house that day."

trying to process what eard. "Well..." he ran his tongue across

"Atlas..."

your execution date is set." He offered her a bitter smile, rocking

a good resting place, but it won't be in the same place as our

Atlas turned his back on her. Penny just

true, but it was just a fraction of it.

her brothers, Penny believed a malicious person. She was so blinded that she thought she was doing the right thing, only for her brothers and Penny to be accused of a crime they never committed. To make amends, Penny took all

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She couldn't stop the repercussions that struck their family business, her

and last visit Penny

*****

to the place that would be her last stop, Penny kept her eyes downcast. She had already lost track of time and her will to live was almost gone. When she sat down on the metal chair, she glanced at the officers who were strapping her body

in months. She looked... horrible, pathetic, and helpless. It reminded her of Atlas

came to see

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