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 shrub

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

It's safe!" she reassured, a

child once, and she

little creatures like this back then. However,

were more

Even so, she

and she felt sorry for

smiling wide until her eyes were

Great aunt?

The boy heaved a sigh of relief,

in this place if

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

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

trying to pull. herself out of the shrub. As she tried

"I have to

you take care of

looked up at him.

can't take it home," he

this favor. "But I think

all alone."

as her eyes fell on the

and small, its hairs still thin and dirty. It reminded her

such a young age.

slipped past her lips as she smiled. "You

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"Huh?"

can't ask for shared custody," she negotiated. "Giving her to me means

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

in this?

dissatisfied with it, but what she said was right. He wasn't capable of raising it. He didn't even know if he would reach adulthood. "Fine," he said, but

pondered. "I'll come here every Thursday, same time. You can play with

little guy was