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

Chapter 578: You're alive

"How about my death?! Didn't you think it was a nonsensical sentence?! Did it make sense to you?!"

Thick silence hung in the air, with Penny's voice echoing.

Nathaniel's eyes shook as he gazed at the person sitting on him. He furrowed his brows, but the panic and adrenaline surging through every fiber of his body made it difficult to process the information.

Angel and Mark furrowed their brows and cast Zoren a look for answers. But alas, Zoren gazed down at the pit with equal confusion.

Penny gripped Nathaniel's collar as tightly as she could, her body shaking with all the emotions swelling in her chest.

"You didn't do anything to me?" she breathed out a jagged breath, almost laughing. "How dare you speak such things when you and I... know what you to me?"

did

Nathaniel clasped her wrist, wiggling aggressively to break free from her grip. However, with the exhausting activity of the day and her weight, he couldn't. All he could do was struggle and shout back.

"Miss Penny! You're being nonsensical! Please let me go! I haven't done anything to you! It's probably someone else!" He kicked in the air, but everything he did was futile. "It's the wrong person! Whoever wronged you is probably an imposter! Please! I'll get you justice-whoever posed as me!"

Listening to his yells only made her grip his collar tighter. She gazed at him and observed him with gritted teeth.

"Miss Penny! I'm innocent! Don't do this to me! I don't deserve it!"

The more she listened, the more her body trembled with anger. Why? Because most of what he said were the very words she had shouted at the top of her lungs. But they all fell on deaf ears.

"Get me... justice?" Her voice was low and full of sarcasm, but it was enough to stop him. "You'd get me justice?"

froze, thinking he had finally had a breakthrough. "I will find the person who wronged you! After all, I also have grievances with that person-whoever they are! This wouldn't

her hand wrap around his neck. He clasped her wrist, using every bit of his energy to stop her. However, at this point, he knew

She would do it.

her, kicking the air and then the ground, slapping at her hands and grabbing them. None of his actions succeeded. If anything, her

one last time.

the remaining strength Nathaniel had slipped out of his control. He still tried to

or if Angel would. He turned to Angel, but the latter only watched with wide eyes, as if

going—" Mark halted when he caught Zoren's figure from the corner of his eye. When he turned his

only to see

clasped Penny's arm but didn't pull it away. He simply held her shoulder, squeezing it gently.

budge and

This time, Zoren's call was

neck tightened even more,

her teeth. She ground her teeth angrily, letting out a long growl before she finally let

to the side, coughing and gasping for air.

taking deep breaths through both his nose and mouth. Groping his neck, his entire body shuddered. Just now, he had almost died. Actually, he briefly felt death caressing him. It

miracle Penny had stopped.

up at him,

gently, assisting her to stand up. But just before he could say anything, Penny held his arms. Her hands were shaking, and they felt cold, as if

she whispered, making his brows furrow.

"Penny."

whispered.

out a shallow breath as soon as he heard her short plea. He nodded stightly, allowing her to let go of

gazed up at her, hands still on his neck, tears quickly formed in the corners of his

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