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."

she hissed, grinding her teeth as she realized Dean had manipulated Yugi into revealing information again. "I'm going

a brow, snapping her 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 marrying

furrowed her brows and

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

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

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

chose to 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 clarity. That makes a

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were reconsidering my offer, but you were just zoning out again. That habit is

I supposed to call

she said as she rose from her seat. "I'm a busy person, just like

me unless it's really

you.

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

"Dean, like I said, 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

grew up together. To be fair, Penny didn't like him the first time they met, and her dislike only grew the more

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

only reason Penny indulged him was because she owed

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

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

tilted

from asking for another favor from him.

steps and

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