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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."

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

to 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 you told your elders you're marrying into my family, they

her brows and

smiling 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

anyone else but herself. Before Dean's nonsense, she assumed something happened that caused this engagement to happen. However, what if that

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

stay away from 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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Penny snapped out of her thoughts at Dean's remark. "I thought you were reconsidering my offer, but you were just zoning out again. That habit is

to call you if I'm

she said as she rose from

it's really important or

you.

watching her

cousin. The next time you do, I'll kick you in the gut." Having said that, Penny turned her back on him

his nosy attitude toward her, even though they practically grew up together. To be fair, Penny didn't like him the first time they met, and her dislike only grew the more

she couldn't explain - probably, something she would never

him

to repay just so she wouldn't have

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

he tilted his

from asking for

said that, Penny resumed her steps

shallow breath slipped past Dean's lips. "Even after all the

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