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."

her teeth as she realized Dean had manipulated Yugi into revealing information again. "I'm going to sew his

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 you told your elders you're marrying into my

furrowed her brows and gazed

gently at her. "I'll take care of you. I promise." Penny still didn't respond as 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, Nina also got engaged,' she thought. 'Which

of living an entire lifetime and going back in time was that Penny couldn't ask anyone else but herself. Before Dean's nonsense,

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her previous life, but because Nina was marrying into a wealthier family, it

to deal with in the past is now happening to me?" she wondered, and

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were just zoning out again. That habit is bad. It

to call you

rose from her seat.

me unless it's really important or

you.

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

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,

his nosy attitude toward her, even though they practically grew up together. To be

couldn't explain - probably, something she would

indulged him was because she owed

was indebted to him-a debt she was trying to repay just so

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

tilted

asking for another favor

that, Penny resumed her steps and closed the

past Dean's lips. "Even after all the years. we've been together, she's