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

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Meanwhile, Hugo stayed in his room as soon as they reached home. Since they left the station, his mind had been stuck on the family he encountered. He was in disbelief that such injustice could happen and even with the authorities involved, there was nothing that was done.

This was his first experience of another face of reality.

It was... infuriating - disturbing.

Knock knock

Hugo blinked and turned to the door, catching Atlas peek at the gap.

"You okay?" Atlas asked without even taking a step inside.

"Do I not look okay?"

"Yes"

Hugo chuckled and moved, adjusting his position on the bed. Atlas took this as an invitation to get inside the room, not daring to sit on his brother's bed with his outdoor clothes.

Yet...

"Why do you always lay down on your bed with your outdoor clothes?" Atlas couldn't help but ask. "That's disgusting"

"Did you come here to comfort me? Or criticize me?"

"Comfort you, but this habit is disturbing."

Hugo let out a deep sigh while Atlas decided to drop the subject.

"What happened while you were gone with Penny?" Like always, Atlas didn't beat around the bush. "I know something happened and you guys just don't want to tell us." "First Brother, is there something that goes past your eyes?"

I don't do fortunes like Penny, so people still need to tell me things for me to know. But because you're like an open book among us, it's easy to

time. Atlas would say things

light, but he just told what was important. "It's annoying, and it's disturbing. One of the troublemakers in the station even said that this country is the best place to live if you're a criminal. What he said made me angry, but at the same

frowned. "Aren't you angry at what

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family, and it's not my business. The battered wife chose to protect her abuser, blatantly abandoning her daughter in the process. I sympathize with them, but at the same time, I'm just seventeen.

"Right."

but he also understood that he and Hugo were different in many

he called, making his second brother lift his

said it's

way you sulk in here tells me you

his heart, he had to admit he was a little regretful, and in a way, he

belong, but I'm just saying even the police couldn't

feeling I felt today.

"That feeling you felt today is something you'd feel many more times. You have to get used to it and use it as motivation to be in power to actually make a difference. That's life that's the

I'm going back to my room," he added and turned around to

the door, Hugo's

how come you sound like you were exposed to it?" Hugo kept his eyes on his brother's figure, watching Atlas slowly look

story. In a way,

the star section,

say that," he hummed before he resumed his steps. @ Hugo kept his gaze on his brother until Atlas closed the door

weak... and yet, I've never seen him sulk. Hugo peeled his back from the headboard and flung his legs out of the bed. He rested his hand on either side of him, snapping his eyes at the shut door

told himself. "I'll climb my

teams poaching him. It wasn't like he never got an offer before. However, he knew that if he enlisted, he had to leave

after today, the determination

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I need to be higher than an officer