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

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[Sunrise Medical Center]

Penny waltzed through the hallway of the VIP ward and stopped in front of a private room. She knocked once before sliding the door open, catching sight of a man reclining on the hospital bed.

Dean slowly turned his head toward the entrance, smiling gently as soon as he met those brown-olive eyes. "You really came?"

"You said you were dying, so I thought I'd visit you as you took your last breath, Penny remarked as she casually entered, sitting down on the chair beside the bed. Her eyes scanned him before her lips curved down.

"Didn't you say you got into an accident?" she asked, displeased. "You don't look like you're dying

to me."

"I got a few scratches."

Penny scratched her temple mildly, trying to keep her temper at bay. "Okay. Then, good?"

"Penny, you've arrived in the country and didn't even call me." Dean frowned. "Is that how your treat your boyfriend?"

"Since when did you become my boyfriend?"

"Not just that, but I heard you're hiring someone to marry," he continued, completely ignoring her question. "I'm heartbroken."

Penny's expression turned solemn. "Did you hire someone to follow me?"

"I didn't." Dean smiled. "Yugi told me."

Dean had manipulated Yugi into revealing information

the current lapse. "Why? Is the engagement too much to handle that you had to resort to such measures? Penny, if that's the case, then I'll marry you. I think if

brows and gazed

her mind drifted to a question and a possible conclusion. 'Back then, not only wasn't this engagement didn't happen, but around this time,

was that Penny couldn't ask anyone else but herself. Before Dean's nonsense, she assumed something happened that caused this engagement to happen. However, what if that wasn't the

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life, but because Nina

family affairs, everything she had to deal with in the past is now happening to me?" she wondered, and somehow, that question already gave her

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but you were just zoning out again. That habit is bad. It made me hope a little. Penny clicked her tongue. "Dean, if you're not dead yet, don't

to call you

she said as she rose from her seat. "I'm a

don't bother me unless it's really important or an

you.

you ask me what happened to me?" he returned, watching her prepare

don't bother me unless it's important or an emergency. One more thing, stop bothering my cousin. The next time you do, I'll kick you in the gut." Having said that, Penny turned her back on him

with Dean was a little complicated. She didn't like him, his guts, or his nosy attitude toward her, even though they practically grew

something she would never figure out,

indulged him was because she

was indebted to him-a debt she was trying to repay just so she wouldn't

the door, and she looked back at Dean. "Hey, do you happen to know someone..." she trailed off as

he tilted

for another favor from him. "Go home. Hospital

that, Penny resumed her steps and closed the door

shut door, a shallow breath slipped past Dean's lips. "Even after all the years. we've been together, she's