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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

surely bully Penny to mark her territory!" Yugi yelled, thinking

might be kind..." Yuri trailed off when

glared at her

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

gazed at her twin brother, who seemed to forget how vicious

agree with her son. She wouldn't even give back Penny if Yuri didn't get sick and needed expensive treatment. The child was her cash cow,

enough!" Jessa raised her

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

the entire family gathered. Usually, Slater would

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couple darted their eyes on their children, the surprise on their faces evident. No one argued and ate their meal. Once they were done, they

she had

the door mildly,

her

wrong?" Her round eyes gleamed with curiosity. The natural

skin.

she walked in. "I just want to talk to you about something. But

shone in Penny's eyes

Lacing aid that

on the aden

9 She got t

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

presence.

in her first life. However, having to

Hence, she couldn't

nice if she could

mentally shook her head to

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