Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

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Penny went under the shrub to rescue a kitten, but

this wasn't a kitten.

What welcomed her was a petite young boy. He looked a little gaunt and pale, but his eyes were brooding as if he were the grim reaper himself.

"What are you?"

"What are you?"

They asked in unison, but Penny was most taken aback because his low-pitched voice didn't match his sickly appearance. He frowned while her brows rose. Before she could say anything, she heard a soft 'meow' from somewhere. Averting her eyes, she caught a small and frail kitten coming from his other side. "Oh." Her lips formed an o-shape. "There's the kitten."

A big smile appeared on her face as she looked up at the boy. "I thought you were."

Did he look like a kitten to her?

The boy looked at the girl's round face and noticed

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that her nose looked pink. He bit his tongue, knowing whatever he was about to say was rude.

"It looks hungry and... oh, it has a company?" Curiosity was seen in her eyes as she stared at the cute rain frog.

Seeing this, the boy looked at the cat and froze.

"A rain frog?" she mumbled. "I didn't know there's some in here."

Penny glanced at the boy, only to furrow her brows upon seeing the horrified look on his face. Earlier, this guy had already looked sickly, but now it seemed he was about to go into the light!

"Kitty, are you okay?" she asked, watching him twist his neck like a rusting robot. The moment they were face to face, Penny panicked. "Are you dying?!"

"He help."

"Help?" Penny was about to summon her superhuman strength and carry him, but then, noticed the frog coming closer to him. His face stiffened even more, and he was holding his breath until his neck turned

taut.

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subsided, moving closer but finding it hard to move freely because of the shrub she

wince as she put her weight on it to reach for the rain frog. She grabbed it without fear, making the boy lean back

of it? It's safe!" she

also a child once, and she was

creatures like this back then.

were more things scarier

creatures. Even

she felt sorry for

wide until her eyes were squinting. "This great

Great aunt?

a sigh of relief, flinching wherever she

be in this place if

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him. "But I know it's probably because you were trying to rescue the

boy didn't answer, but in truth, the situation was the opposite. It

herself out of the shrub. As she tried

she added, "I have to go...

take

stopped and looked up

can't take it home," he said, a

think it won't survive out

all alone."

it home...?" Penny pouted as her eyes fell on the pitiful

and small, its hairs still thin and dirty.

such a young age.

shallow breath slipped past her lips as she smiled.

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"Huh?"

her to me

they were talking about child custody? Or rather, why did she

in this?

a little dissatisfied with it, but what she said was right. He wasn't capable of raising it. He didn't even know if he

pondered. "I'll come here every Thursday, same

this, the little