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

Chapter 1155: He did it for free

[Earlier: Prior to Penny and Zoren's arrival at the Base.]

"Oh, my god..." Penny was still in disbelief at what she had just learned from Zoren. "Butler-Butler Lee is part of the Phantom Circle? How?"

"Long story short, Butler Lee was separated from his family as a child. He led a troubled life growing up. Years later, he and Butler Hubert reunited," Zoren answered with a shrug. "It was Grandma who offered him a chance to live a quiet life."

"Grandma offered him a quiet life on the island?" Penny repeated, and he nodded. "And you offered him the opposite of that. Renren, I didn't know you had a rebellious phase!"

"I gave him something that made him feel alive."

Penny scrunched up her nose, momentarily wondering who she had married. But then again, she was grateful that her husband was being upfront about it.

Still... wasn't that a red flag?

"Don't worry. Butler Lee didn't work in the field during our group's active years," Zoren reassured her. "He simply held a position that allowed him to use his vast strategic insight. Like I said, he lived a troubled life."

Penny pursed her lips, raising a hand to stop him. "I don't want to know the details of what he used to do for a living."

Zoren smiled at her. "Don't worry. He didn't kill for a living."

"Oh, Thank God!"

"He did it for free," he added, nearly making her choke on her own sigh of relief. "Pfft-"

"Renren!" Penny yelled. "Don't joke about something so disturbing with a straight face!" She mentally wept, feeling as though Atlas's spirit had somehow seeped into her husband. How could her brothers have tainted this precious man like this?

Meanwhile, Zoren maintained his smile. "Did that make you feel less worried?"

snapped her eyes at him and huffed. "It took my mind off Third Brother and Benjamin's situation for sure, but now I'm worried about

"I'm fine."

that kind of fine," she

Both of them were still sitting on their bikes, knowing they might need to ride

plan?" Zoren asked, making Penny raise a

like them might think they're businessmen, but they're really just the most corrupt, rotten human sewage to ever crawl out from wherever they came from." Her tone hardened as their conversation

with you." Zoren nodded, though his lips pressed into a

had come to the same conclusion. However, she

him. Placing a hand over his, she smiled. "The best-case scenario is that we buy their freedom and they let us go. I want to believe it'll be that easy. But we both know that's

want more, and for sure, they'll use Third Brother and Benjamin to bleed us dry. We need

for one of them to find the hostages,

worried about

her heart was telling

"I'm not wasting this second life- possibly the best life I could have. Going in there isn't throwing it away.

it."

silence stretched between them as they held each other's gaze. Then, his thumb brushed over the back of her hand as

murmured. "And I

just stayed behind and done nothing, but that wasn't who they were. The people the syndicate had taken were close to their hearts. And with the authorities unwilling to help,

is, how are we going to split up if we're going in

like them are the worst kind of human sewage. We're going to

furrowed. "What do you

are only two possible outcomes, Penny. Either they negotiate and let us

Third Brother,

Butler Lee, some people have been eyeing the island. I'm

studied her face. "I need

"Huh?"