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

Chapter 583: I'm family too!

[Flashback]

Penny's sniffles and hiccups echoed in the room as she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, but to no avail. No matter how many times she tried to dry her eyes, she couldn't. Her tears were simply overflowing.

Smacking her lips, she forced a smile as she gazed at the man lying on the bed. She reached out to Charles's hand, squeezing it gently.

"Daddy," she called, pausing to let the mechanical heart rate fill the silence. "Please don't leave...?"

Before Charles's accident, things had always been bad. However, even when he disciplined and scolded her, he would still calmly talk to her afterward. Penny had been subjected to many accusations from Nina and her cousin, Sofia. Jessa and the Bennet family weren't helping at all. Charles had no choice but to discipline her privately, but he always defended her publicly.

It wasn't ideal, and he wasn't perfect.

However, ever since Charles had his accident, no one could protect her anymore. Even Allison was being talked down to by Charles's own family. They even blamed her for what happened to him.

"Dad... can you be... okay?" she whispered with quivering lips. "Brother Atlas is becoming scary..."

In this life, Penny couldn't understand everything. She couldn't understand why Atlas had become so strict with everything and everyone-especially with her. She was too young to realize that with Charles in such an unstable state, Atlas had to grow up faster to take care of the family. Allison was too weak and could only endure the verbal and mental abuse from the Bennet family.

Penny had no idea, even at sixteen years old. All she knew was that if Charles got better, things would improve. However, their hope that Charles would get better was slowly dimming. After all, he hadn't shown any signs of improvement, and today, he had a heart attack.

up. I'll be a good girl if you do. I promise I won't cause any trouble anymore, and I

again as tears coated her eyes.

those words left her mouth, the heart rate monitor started producing loud, frantic sounds. Penny

his hand. "Dad! What's going on?!

to say until a group of nurses rushed into the ward. All Penny remembered was the medical professionals surrounding Charles, doing all sorts of things calmly while

behind. "Dad! What's going on with him?!

as he tried to get in, but the nurses kept

and Atlas away as they both cried and shouted. Before

if their minds had gone completely blank. They couldn't think or react property. They didn't even have any idea of what

charge called Charles's time of death, everything that happened afterward was a blur for Penny and Atlas. They had no idea when Allison or their relatives arrived. They didn't even know how they

of the events afterward registering with

was standing in front of their father's grave while Allison fainted after crying

Allison and calling for help. But she couldn't remember helping as she stared at the grave with a blank face. She couldn't even recall what she had done after the funeral; all of their

the time her father passed... one of them was telling him she loved him. She couldn't remember expressing those words to Charles or to Allison. She also couldn't recall hearing those

of the regrets she held secretly: not telling them she loved

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her surprise didn't last long as it was

had been with them for years, for some reason, these words sounded so unfamilianto them. Not that they thought she didn't love them, but they believed Penny simply wasn't the type to

for her family through her actions, after all. However,