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

247 I can't marry twice [FLASHBACK]

The sound of a vase shattering on the floor rang sharply, causing everyone who heard it to panic. Penny jumped in surprise, taking a step back, only to wince when she accidentally stepped on a shard of the

vase.

"Ouch..." Penny bit her lip and squatted down to remove the shard from her foot. "Ahh..."

She pursed her lips, holding back her tears. It was just a small wound, so she feared the elders. would think she was overreacting if she teared up. She had learned her lesson. "Oh, no..."

Her attention was drawn to a meek voice nearby. When Penny looked up, her eyes landed on a young girl about her age.

This girl had been teasing Penny moments ago. But since Penny chose to stay quiet and let it go, the girl tried something else to get a reaction from her, ultimately tipping the vase off its stand. "Sophia..." Penny called out. "Are you hurt?"

Sophia Bennet, age 14, turned her shaky eyes to Penny. Despite her bleeding foot, Penny tiptoed. toward Sophia to see if she was hurt. The boy with them held his breath, shocked at what had happened. "Oh, my god! What happened here?!"

Before Penny could reach Sophia, the latter pushed her away slightly. "Mom!"

"Sophia!" a middle-aged woman gasped, watching her daughter run towards her. "Sophia, be careful!"

When Sophia reached her mother, she hugged her out of fear.

"Sophia, are you hurt? What happened?" the woman asked worriedly, her eyes scanning her daughter.

looked up,

boy, Sven, was quick to point a finger. "She was teasing Sophia and

the elders and the rest of the family arrived at the scene. When they did, they caught wind of

wasn't the truth, but she could see the displeasure on everyone's faces, as

out, stopping at the sight of the shards on the floor. But when she saw the blood on Penny's foot, her motherly

held her daughter's shoulders, looking at her up and

I can't marry

bleeding. Let's

mother harrumphed upon seeing this. "What are you doing right now?!" Allison's breath hitched as she turned

her chest, but in her mind, this was yet another opportunity to make Penny

But now, you're acting like she's the one who needs help when she's the troublemaker who broke a vase worth more than just money!" the woman fumed. "More importantly, she could

lips and glanced at everyone. Meanwhile,

against all the bad accusations from her in-laws. But after many incidents involving Penny and her supposed bad behavior, Allison could only lower

defending her!" an elderly woman, Charles' mother, shouted in frustration. "That brat was raised in a poor and ill-mannered

been in this family for so long, yet it seems you still haven't gotten

Sophia's mother added. "If you keep siding with her without

simply enabling bad behavior!

dismay. She had learned long ago that it was best to stay quiet. Fighting her in-laws would never end well for her. "What's going on here?" Suddenly, Charles arrived with the men of the family. His eyes darted back and forth

occurrence whenever Penny was in the old residence. Although her parents would side with her publicly, they would discipline her at home. Initially, Allison and Charles believed her,