Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

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Haines had never heard Allison and Charles fight. This was the first. Hence, to respect their privacy, Haines found a stop at the end of the hallway.

"Haist!"

Haines snapped his eyes when Charles stepped out of the room. The latter ruffled his hair in irritation before noticing the figure casually leaning on the corner. The two men stared at each other wordlessly before Charles sighed heavily.

Without a word, Charles and Haines found themselves heading into the garden as if that was the only place they could talk to right

now.

"Today of all times..." Charles massaged his brows to ease his headache. "Allison wants to keep Nina just to appease everyone."

Haines didn't react and simply stared at the flowers.

Hearing no response, Charles glanced at him and sighed. "I told

her no."

"I know."

"Did you listen to us?"

"No." Haines's face didn't carry any change, but his quiet but stern voice laced with certainty. "If you did, then I guess the Bennet Family needs a new head." Charles frowned, but he could understand Haines. Growing up,

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Charles and Haines had always been compared to the point people wanted them to compete. At one point, Charles even saw Haines his competition because Haines was truly a remarkable man worthy to be the head of the entire clan.

Thankfully, despite that phase, both of them grew mature enough to know they weren't enemies. Rather, they were each other's strongest allies. It was why Charles appointed Haines to run their international branch - which almost carried the same position as

him.

eggshells and wonder if what we were doing

were aware they did what they did because they only had our best interest in mind. That

claimed to be perfect, but until Nina got sick and they found out about the truth,

they also wanted to please her so much without making their other children

that argument," Charles subtly smiled. "I'm more

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would probably forget I'm the man of

Haines slowly peeled his eyes from the flower to him. "Butler Jen told me that Penny was waiting for us earlier to tell us she wants to coax her auntie

his brows.

summarized because Charles quickly understood the entire context

to that?" Charles frowned. "Nina

something

"What?"

trouble to

"Haines, Nina didn't—"

actions, but she is not my niece," Haines didn't spare Charles anymore as it was about time to face this. "Jessa Cortez is right, after all. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,

is just stressed," His eyes slowly landed on the

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out like that... then the one's at fault here is

know the right answer to that. He cocked his head back and gazed up at the

is why I don't want to have children." Unless they were Penny, then he could probably

Haines could buy another

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her beloved pets, and it only made her thankful for Thursday Guy. That guy was the one who told her to take care of Chunchun. If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't probably know a cat

think about it,

"Say,

of her tongue, a knock

lifted her eyes and

on the side table was untouched,

imagination immediately showed an image of a caterpillar! Surrounding her were her