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

168 Not all parents deserve to be parents

Looking at the small house where she saw Grace stopped, a shallow breath slipped past Penny's nostrils.

'Grace is such a horrible liar,' she commented in her heart. Why lie about her childhood? It didn't seem like her mother left her be.'

It was an irony that when Penny was still a free woman, she didn't have people whom she could. call her friends. Even her colleagues weren't her friends. But when she got into prison, somehow, she was able to call people her friends some, even family, like Grace.

Grace was akin to her sister; they were cellmates halfway through Penny's sentence.

And in a place like the maximum prison, they could either talk to each other or fight or get thrown into solitary confinement.

Aside from Grace's sentence, Penny knew a thing or two about Grace. One of them was that Grace was abandoned by her mother, and then her father abused her. He abused her so much that Grace could only fight back and eventually end her father.

'It's cruel, but... I don't want her to end like that,' Penny sighed once more, telling herself she was being foolish. Not because Penny was lucky and was blessed to redo everything, doesn't mean she could save everyone. However, she still wanted to try at least once.

"Penny?"

Penny snapped out of her thoughts and looked back at her second brother. "There's nothing. Second Brother. I just saw someone, and I thought I knew her.

"Oh." Hugo rocked his head in understanding. "Okay. Let's go back?"

"Mhm."

As they turned, Hugo carefully walked a step closer beside her. “Penny, it's not good for you to wander off to places you're not familiar with. If I didn't see you, everyone would be worried." "Hehe. Sorry!" Penny averted the mild scolding with a sweet smile. It's just that when I'm alone, I feel like older than everyone else."

It wasn't like Penny couldn't go home alone. Even if she got lost here, she knew how to find her. way home. But then again, in everyone's eyes, she was an innocent thirteen-year-old in the body. of a nine- year-old.

How frustrating!

heard loud voices behind them. Their steps

about.

bitch! Now that you've grown, you think you can talk back to me

as they saw the door of the small house fly open from the inside. Coming out of it was a man in a dirty tank top, where

1

was trying to

No,

bitch!" the man flung his arms away, making the middle-aged woman fall back inside

things on your own now, huh?!" the man fumed at the teenage girl. "Fine! You stupid bitch! You're just like your mother. Get the fuck out of

father's wrist. "I said let go! I'm going to

her body flew across the

their house.

winced, her back

stupid little bitch..." the man scoffed, his eyes blazing while glaring down at her. "You should be grateful that I took you in, even though you're not mine! I should've known you and your stupid

to vent his anger. However, his feet landed on someone else. Stopping, he shifted to the person who took the hit.

be beaten so badly? Sure! I'll give it

yelled as her mother curled up on the ground and quietly took the beating.

gaps between her arms. "It's okay. Just

- ah!"

side. Her father stumbled down on the side, caught off guard. Shifting her gaze to the person, all she saw was

to

face was akin to someone who had just witnessed a family member get maltreated for the first