Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

271 Ahem, uh, uh, uh

[BENNET MANSION]

Penny pulled up to the garage and stepped out with a phone in her hand.

"Yes, Yugi," she said as she exited the driver's seat. "I approved Zoren Pierson's request, and I'll send you the details of his situation once I check the file - ah!"

Penny jumped in surprise when she saw a figure standing several steps behind her. Her heart raced as she studied the guy wrapped in a blanket and using it as a cloak. a

"Penny? What's going on?" Yugi's voice came through the phone. "Are you being robbed?"

She hissed and sighed. "Slater, what in the world?"

"Penny, I've been waiting for you all day!" Slater threw a tantrum. "It's my day off, but you just left so early! How could you!"

"Yugi, I'll call you back," she said, and without waiting for his response, she hung up. "Third Brother, I'm sorry, okay? I had to do something. And what do you mean by "how could I?' I mean, how could you not grow up??" 1

Slater frowned dejectedly. "Penny, you left early just so you could say this to me when you came home, didn't you?"

"Of course not!" she gasped. "I would never do that! You can check the building and see what I did today!"

"I'll check it"

Her face froze, but she managed a smile. "Ehh, come on," she laughed as she approached him. "I'm going to watch all your movies tonight, and we'll have a sleepover. Isn't that the plan, anyway? Instead of criticizing me for something important, let's just go inside and do what we planned!"

Slater grumbled, his eyes telling her he didn't believe any of the things she said. Even so...

"Fine," he conceded, despite the urge to call her out. Keeping himself snug within the blanket, he followed Penny into the house. "Even if I get angry, I can't turn back time. You're lucky I don't ruin my mood on my day off"

Penny secretly heaved a sigh of relief. She had promised Slater to spend the day with him on his day off, but unfortunately, more important and concerning matters had come up.

As they walked toward the entrance of the house, Penny felt the phone in her hand vibrate. She instinctively checked it, her brows furrowing when she saw an unknown number. [From: Unknown]

Good evening, Miss Penelope. This is my number.]

Penny's steps halted as she scrolled to make sure she wasn't missing anything. The message was

C

Ahem, uh,

short to reveal who

DING!

[From: Unknown]

Zoren Pierson.]

DING!

[From: Unknown]

text-to-speech. Is it

furrowed his brows and craned his neck to take

trying to peek at

mind showing you

just snoop through her

to after stardom?" she guessed, only

I would've lived here," Slater sighed,

for him. She had once been popular herself and hadn't liked it. Although her past popularity was unintentionally compared with Slater's, the lack of privacy was something she would never trade for anything - privacy and peace. "Aww, poor

widened slightly, and

make it up to

movie marathon with Slater, Allison, and Charles. Hugo and Atlas hadn't come home, which was no surprise; they were

asleep on the couch, Penny went back to her room to do some work.

that man not only looked sickly, but

the accident,

as soon as she saw the wrecked

whispered, pressing some keys on the keyboard to check the

Zoren mentioned the "minor" accident he had been in, he made it sound light. Not that he didn't look serious about it, but he seemed to treat it as

to him, I can only imagine what a real major accident looks like for

firms of the same caliber as Prime Group, which would

Zoren had promised to send her. She stopped when

rest. "He's surely a

poured out bad luck and bad

of it and intuitively grabbed her phone. "I forgot to reply." She saved his

DING!