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

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frogs?" her panic subsided, moving closer but finding it hard to move freely because of the

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

It's safe!" she reassured,

child once, and she

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realized there were more things scarier

little creatures. Even

was valid, and she felt

her eyes were

Great aunt?

heaved a sigh of relief, flinching wherever she waved the frog in her

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

answer, but in truth, the situation was the opposite. It was more like the cat was rescuing

trying to pull. herself out of the shrub.

"I have to go...

take care of

stopped and looked up at him.

it home," he said, a little

"But I think it won't survive out

all alone."

Penny pouted as her eyes fell on the pitiful

small, its hairs still thin and dirty. It

such a young age.

past her lips as she

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"Huh?"

ask for shared custody," she negotiated. "Giving her to me means

it sound like they were talking about child custody? Or rather, why

in this?

was right. He wasn't capable of raising it. He didn't even know if he would reach

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

little guy