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."

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

back 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

brows and gazed at

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 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,

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her previous life, but because

past is now happening to me?" she wondered, and

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just zoning out again. That habit is bad. It made me hope

supposed to

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

me unless it's really important

you.

me?" he returned, watching her prepare to leave. "You're hurting my feelings even

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

her, even though they practically grew up together. To be fair, Penny didn't like

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

reason Penny indulged him was because she

trying to repay just so she wouldn't have

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

tilted

holding herself back from asking for another favor from

Penny resumed her steps and closed the door behind

past Dean's lips. "Even after all