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

Chapter 1001: Prettier than the morning

"Hmm?" A soft groan escaped Slater as his eyes slowly opened. He winced as he felt the stiffness in his neck, pushing himself to sit up. Still wincing a little, he glanced at the person next to him. It was Haines.

'Right...' he thought. 'I fell asleep while talking to Uncle Haines last night.'

As Haines adjusted his position, getting more comfortable in the other corner of the couch, Slater looked around. Allison and Charles had already left the room, so Hugo was now occupying the spare bed in the bedroom. Slater didn't care much for his second brother, as he was just glad Hugo wasn't snoring.

When his eyes landed on the bed, his lips pressed into a thin line. Slater carefully pushed himself away from the couch, tiptoeing to the bed while making sure he wasn't waking anyone up. It was still too early, after all, and they had all slept a little later than usual because they were watching Zoren's progress. They didn't want Penny to stay up alone.

Standing at the end of the bed, his eyes landed on his sister. Penny was sleeping on the floor, her arms and head resting on the edge of the bed. Looking at her reminded him of the expression she had carried yesterday.

"You... foolish girl..." he muttered, bitterness swelling in his heart. His hands slowly balled into tight fists, tempted to scold his sister for being so foolish.

How could she crumble so easily just because Zoren had a nosebleed?

Penny had changed her life in this lifetime, and Slater could attest to how different her life was now compared to the one she used to have. Even Penny herself had changed, as if she were a completely different person. She had learned a lot and became stronger, fiercer, and wiser.

But yesterday, it was like the old Penny all over again.

It was scary to see her like that, but at the same time, it was upsetting.

How could she be like this again?

Again.

'Back then, it was us... it was the family,' he thought, clenching his teeth tighter at Penny's destructive habit of loving someone. 'And now... it's him.'

Slater glanced at the patient, who seemed to be peacefully sleeping without a care in the world.

even feel at peace the second I wake up?!' he dramatically wailed in his heart. 'Would they both die if one

heart. The more he thought about it, the more upset he became. When his eyes landed on Penny's figure once more, he knew in his heart that he had to do

lesson. If not

thought in mind, Slater huffed heavily for the

*****

escaped Zoren's closed lips before his eyes cracked open. The light from the window was akin to a flashlight beaming right at him, so he shut his eyes again and turned his head slightly

brows rose as he felt movement on the other side

vision to the light. Although the natural light stung his eyes a little, he still tried to keep them partially open. The first thing he saw before

Haines was already awake,

massaging his neck while

hand was also awake. Though Atlas:

while staring at

for a moment, but Atlas said nothing as he shifted his weary gaze back to where he had been

to the other side of the bed, where his wife had fallen asleep last night. Penny had been very tired the previous night, to the point

Zoren's eyes landed on where his wife was, he finally understood what Atlas

with her arms and head resting on the edge of the bed, was Penny. But she wasn't the one Atlas had been looking at it was Slater.

paint his sister's nose

little. When she stopped moving and continued sleeping, he moved the marker to her face again.

"Uh-"

him, his

only to continue treating his sister's

his lips tightly, glancing at Atlas, who wasn't reacting to the situation. Even when he met Haines's eyes, the latter just paused before leaving the room. Haines glanced at Zoren as if

say

his head.

likely that they had given up on stopping Slater, or second,