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,

to reveal who it was.

DING!

[From: Unknown]

Zoren Pierson.]

DING!

[From: Unknown]

text-to-speech. Is

neck to take a peek. But

Brother, why are you trying

don't mind showing you

he could just snoop through her private message? Penny looked at her third brother

to after stardom?" she guessed, only to see him shrug

everywhere, and if it weren't for the distance to our parents' home, I would've lived here," Slater

the lack of privacy was something she would never trade for anything

Slater's eyes widened slightly, and they trembled

said that, Penny put off replying to Zoren until later, just to make it up to Slater. After

had already nodded off. As promised, Penny had a movie marathon with Slater, Allison, and Charles. Hugo and Atlas hadn't come home, which was no surprise; they were grown

Penny went back to her room

to go through it. After all, that man not only looked sickly,

me the file of the accident, she

soon as she saw the

the keyboard to check the other photos of the scene. "He's lucky

in, he made it sound light. Not that he didn't look serious about it, but he seemed to treat it as a real minor

only imagine what a real major accident looks like for him," she murmured, her face darkening at the evidence before her. "That's why his

family with generations of wealth could hire other firms of the same caliber as Prime Group, which would give

Family is surely a complicated one," she whispered, checking the reports and other information Zoren had promised to send her.

paused as she skimmed through the recent ones, not bothering with the rest. "He's surely a lucky one. Not only was

heavens poured out

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

DING!