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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!

of that child. who stole Penny's life. "She's just like her ungrateful and greedy mother. I wouldn't be Jessa Cortez if I let that brat bully my genius niece!" Hearing their mother, Yugi and Yuri nodded

Yugi yelled, thinking

she might be kind..."

glared at her

his mind. "That brat will give our Penny a hard time and Penny is too kind to retaliate! If we don't do something as her family, then we don't

her twin brother, who seemed to forget how

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

enough!" Jessa raised her

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

the Bennet Mansion, the day went surprisingly calm. When dinner came, the entire family gathered. Usually, Slater would start throwing attitudes in the middle or the

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on their children, the surprise on their faces 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

had to

door

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

there's something wrong?" Her round eyes gleamed with curiosity. The natural blush on her

skin.

in. "I just want to talk to you about something.

briefly shone in Penny's eyes before

Lacing aid that

on the aden

9 She got t

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

presence.

had always been gentle, even in her first life. However, having to raise five children, she had to

Hence, she

she

shook her head to get rid

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