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

uh,

short to reveal who it

DING!

[From: Unknown]

Zoren Pierson.]

DING!

[From: Unknown]

text-to-speech. Is it

craned his neck to take a peek. But Penny quickly tilted

are you trying to peek at my

don't mind

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

the life you got used to after stardom?" she guessed, only to see him shrug slightly.

distance to our parents' home, I would've lived here," Slater sighed,

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 you. Penny walked to his side and draped an arm around him. "Let's go watch a movie together, Third

slightly, and they trembled a

that, Penny put off replying to Zoren until later, just to make it up to Slater. After all, if Zoren had already reached

Slater 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

back to her room to do some work.

After all, that man not only looked sickly, but he was also

the accident, she

as soon as she

isn't minor at all; she 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 a

this is minor to him, I can only imagine what a real major accident looks like for him,"

wealth could hire other firms of the

Family is surely a complicated one," she whispered, checking the reports and other information Zoren had

the rest. "He's surely a lucky one. Not only

he outside when the heavens poured out bad luck and bad health into

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

DING!