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

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Apart from the results of the exam, there wasn't anything eventful that everyone looked forward to for the rest of the foundation week. However, the talk about the basketball game was still a hot topic. Perhaps it was because of this that the sales in the horror booth declined.

Even so, everyone tried to enjoy the rest of the week. After all, the result of the exam will be announced on Tuesday next week. Everyone would rather enjoy this before the moment of truth.

And just like that, the foundation week passed without any other big events. At least for Penny and the Bennet children.

"Woah..." Penny's lips formed an o-shape, sitting on the high stool on the counter while her mother busied herself in the kitchen. "Mommy, this is so good!"

Allison smiled in satisfaction. "You liked it?" she asked, resting her hands on the edge of the kitchen counter.

"I love it!"

"Mrs. Cortez taught me how to do it," Allison explained with a chuckle. "It might not be the same as how she makes it, but I'm glad you liked it."

Penny blinked, studying the smile on her mother's face. "Mama, you were always with my aunt. Are you friends now?"

"Friends?" the smile on Allison's face faded a little. She still tried to recover her smile as she said, "I'm not too sure about that. Your aunt might say otherwise if I said yes.'

"My aunt doesn't have friends and I don't see you with your friends either."

Now that Penny thought about it, she never met anyone whom Allison would call her friend. Be it in this lifetime or her previous life. It was a matter Penny didn't pay attention to in both lifetimes, but now that she thought about it, it piqued her curiosity.

Allison smiled. "Mommy has a lot of friends before."

"Then why aren't you friends with them anymore?"

"Things happened," said Allison, and smacked her lips. "We grew up and then had a family of our own. But they're still my friends and sometimes, we exchanged messages."

'My mother isn't really a good liar,' Penny thought, catching all the lies Allison spewed. 'So meaning, she didn't have friends, huh?"

Allison clapped and told her she had prepared another dessert and quickly went to the fridge to check it. Watching her, the curiosity in Penny's eyes slowly shifted into worry.

her parent's fate. The scandal about our family and Dad's death was too much for her to take that she died of a heart attack' Her lips pressed into a thin line, having this mix of emotions swell in her heart. The only reason. Penny didn't think much about it was because her parents' death was many years

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right?' she wondered, watching Allison smile back at her. And as long as

"Penny? Penny."

her

head a little to

grinned. "It's nothing, Mommy. Everything is fine. I'm just

exam."

I'm sure you can do well on your special

served her daughter another portion of

kitchen and joined them. The dessert Allison served

the kitchen. As she did so, she was listening to the live broadcast on the phone as a habit. While cleaning, her movements slowed down as she

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she was

slowly.

end of the month..." she whispered, pursing her lips. "I wonder if

the Cortez Household, Nina and Yuri occupied the living area as they browsed through different designs for Nina's

you

think?"

do Nina leaned her face forward and hummed a tune as she drew her head back. "It's too

me."

sighed as she put down the magazine.

throat, a little

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this? I'm not too sure if you can imagine it. My drawing sucks." Yuri looked at the sketch, and her mouth fell open. With a gaping mouth,

Nina bit her lips, having this urge to cover her

you can draw?!" Yugi gasped. "What do you mean, it's bad? It's