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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!

"She's just like her ungrateful and greedy mother.

her territory!" Yugi yelled, thinking of the rich people's problems. They've seen it

might be kind..." Yuri trailed off

glared at her

Penny a hard time and Penny is too kind to retaliate! If we don't do something as her family,

retaliate? Yuri gazed at her twin brother, who seemed to forget how vicious Penny could

She wouldn't even give back Penny if Yuri didn't get sick and needed

raised her

handle it. That brat doesn't know what our family went through all these years.

went 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 he

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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 some

had to

knocked on the door mildly, "Can I come

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

something wrong?" Her round eyes gleamed with curiosity. The natural blush on her chubby cheeks complemented her

skin.

in. "I just want to

in Penny's eyes

Lacing aid that

on the aden

9 She got t

with her back facing Allison, letting her mother's gentle hands smoothen out her tangled hair. Every brush carried gentleness and carefulness. It made Penny a

presence.

always been gentle, even in her first life. However, having to raise five children, she had to equally give them all love and care. She might've lacked in some ways, but Penny knew her parents weren't

she couldn't

she

mentally shook her head to

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