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."

little shit..." she hissed, grinding her teeth as she realized Dean had manipulated Yugi into revealing information again. "I'm going to sew his mouth shut when I see

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

her brows and

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

in 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, what if

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this engagement happened in her previous life, but because

to stay away from family affairs, everything she had to deal with in the past is now happening

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of her thoughts at Dean's remark. "I thought you were reconsidering 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 not dead yet, don't call

supposed to call you if I'm

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

don't bother me unless it's really important or

you.

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

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

toward her, even though they practically grew up together. To be fair, Penny didn't like him the first time they met,

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

him was because she owed

was trying to repay just so she wouldn't

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

tilted

asking for another favor from him. "Go

that, Penny resumed her steps and closed the

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