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In the Cortez Household, Yugi and Yuri eagerly leaned forward after Jessa sent a message to Penny's parents.

"Mom, did they agree?" Yugi asked anxiously. "What did they say?"

Yuri didn't say anything, but her eyes carried a look of anticipation.

Jessa glossed her eyes over her children and crossed her arms. She leaned back on the couch in their living room and smirked.

"They said they will meet me first."

The two children looked at each other, unsure if that

was a good thing.

"Don't worry, kids. Your mother got this," Jessa reassured, her cunningness flickering in her eyes.

When Penny left the household, even Jessa felt like the house was a little empty and bigger. Penny was the family's savior. Initially, Jessa thought Penny was better off with her real family. Even so, she was curious about what sort of family the Bennets were, so

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she did some digging, and she gradually realized that the Bennet family was filthy rich!

Well, the compensation money she got already told her they were.

However, after a while, her twins kept making a fuss. They also kept saying things. Initially, she brushed it. off, but the more she thought about it, the more it affected her.

Penny was the long-lost daughter of the Bennet family. The said family didn't even know her existence

because of another child who had been living Penny's life!

Jessa felt bitter at the thought of that child. who stole Penny's life. "She's just like her ungrateful and greedy mother. I wouldn't be Jessa Cortez

will surely bully Penny to mark her territory!" Yugi yelled, thinking of the rich

she might be kind..." Yuri trailed off

glared at her

ideas in his mind. "That brat will give our Penny a hard time and Penny is too kind to retaliate!

retaliate? Yuri gazed at her twin brother,

couldn't help but agree with her son. She wouldn't even give back Penny if Yuri didn't get sick and

enough!" Jessa raised her

mom will handle it. That brat doesn't know what our family went through all these years. She can't have it easy

surprisingly calm. When dinner came, the entire family gathered. Usually, Slater would start throwing attitudes in the middle or the end of the meal, but

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evident. No one argued and ate their meal. Once they were done, they politely excused themselves and resigned to their bedrooms, Allison went straight to Penny's room after

she had to

she knocked on the door mildly, "Can I come

heard Penny's faint voice from the inside, Allison opened the door. She peeked her head in, her eves searched for her daughter,

eyes gleamed with curiosity. The natural blush on her chubby

skin.

just want to talk

Penny's eyes before

Lacing aid that

on the aden

9 She got t

bed. Penny sat with her back facing Allison, letting her mother's gentle hands smoothen out her tangled hair. Every brush carried gentleness

presence.

having to raise five children, she had to equally give them all love and care.

she couldn't

if she could

to get rid

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