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

Chapter 376

376 A kiss?

[PRESENT TIME] 1

Zoren nodded in understanding, recalling everything up until the moment he fainted. "Right... that's what happened."

What a disappointment. They should've just eloped.

"I stayed over to make sure you're okay, she grinned, finishing the last bite of her plate. "It was just fatigue. So, from now on, you need to start walking and things like that."

"Okay" He nodded without hesitation. "I also need to increase my stamina."

"Yes." She smiled but noticed the slight deviousness in his expression. "What?"

He shrugged. "Nothing"

"I think you're smiling about something very... evil," she said, narrowing her eyes suspiciously. "What is it?"

"It's nothing," he repeated, meeting her gaze. "I'm just happy to wake up and see you as soon as I

open my eyes."

She pursed her lips and raised her chin. "I'm not... flustered."

"I'm not trying to make you," he chuckled softly as he took a bite.

Watching him chuckle and eat, Penny's lips tightened further. Her cheeks flushed red as she observed how manly and attractive his chuckle sounded. The way his jaw moved as he chewed and how he occasionally glanced at her mesmerized her. Even his arms looked firm and because he was pale, she could see his veins around his toned arms.

'Is he filming a commercial?' she wondered, touching her neck. Why does he eat so perfectly? He should be sickly. Since when did sick people look like this?"

Honestly, there were no tricks involved. He was simply eating casually, but seeing him up close was... flattering.

pursing her lips and noticing him raise

see me now?"

he asked, snapping her

"Huh?"

I fainted, he reminded her. "I don't remember the bodyguards. following us. If they did, they would've hidden us in the car? Penny was speechless, not because of his question, but because she realized they could've avoided all the

reality, only to freeze. His face was only a few inches from hers, and with

teeth,' was the first thing that crossed her

"Are you okay?"

looked away

they got worried and searched for us,

at how she was explaining while looking away. He moved his hand from the edge of

her, and stood beside

him. "What are you..." Her sentence trailed off as he suddenly pinched her checks. Her

here." "Huh?"

back to the bedroom and you weren't there," he confessed, still

gulped, hearing her own swallow in her ears, followed by the pounding of her heart. He continued pinching her checks and stretching them mildly, and all she could

whisper. "I thought something happened when I woke up and

knew their reasons were different. For her, she thought something happened to him. But for him, he feared she wasn't real and that he

cool

rose. "What

we were dating as Zoren and Penelope, she explained in a mumble, casting her eyes. down. "But now that you know I'm Penny, isn't it a

tilted his

we were friends, I don't want you to think of me as just that

"Should we kiss?"

""Excuse me?"

we kiss?" he repeated in the same curious tone, leaving her momentarily

A kiss?

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