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."

manipulated Yugi into revealing information again. "I'm going to

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

brows and gazed

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

back in time was that Penny couldn't ask anyone else but herself. Before Dean's nonsense, she assumed something happened that caused

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because Nina was marrying into a wealthier

stay away from family affairs, everything she had to deal with in the past is now happening to me?" she wondered, and somehow,

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my offer, 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

to call you

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

me unless it's really

you.

watching her prepare to leave.

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 and strode off

toward her, even though they practically grew up together. To

explain - probably, something she would never figure out, but she

indulged him was because she owed

she was trying to repay just so she wouldn't have to

when she reached the door, and she looked back at Dean.

he tilted

mind," Penny smiled, holding herself back from asking for another favor from him. "Go home. Hospital bills

that, Penny resumed her steps and closed

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