Chapter 1210: A thousand times wouldn't be enough.
"It's just like that time. When others make a mistake, you try to fix it. You were lenient with them, only giving warnings. But I made one-just one-and that was helping you. Yet, I didn't get the same leniency you had for others. If anything, what I got was a devastating punishment."
A thick silence settled in the cockpit as neither spoke after Penny's remark. Atlas kept his eyes on the back of her head, watching as she pressed another button so casually.
"You want the truth-the full story. Why?" Penny glanced over her shoulder. "Can you even handle a fraction of it, Atlas?"
"I can handle anything."
"Anything, huh?" She rocked her head, laughing to herself. "Well, you're Atlas Bennet. I suppose you would say that."
"Penny, if you don't want to talk about it—"
"If I could make a wish right now, it would be for you to remember everything instead of Slater," she cut him off. "I hate you all equally, but I could be more lenient with our third brother. Why? Because, unlike you, he didn't come to prison just to make sure I knew I had screwed up. Big time."
"What does that mean?"
back at him. "Exactly what it sounds
over and over, screaming to the world until my throat bled. But no one
the person I wanted to believe me
did you tell me? 'It's your fault. The court has decided. You admitted to your crimes. Why are you still lying? I knew it. You're jealous. I've always
effortlessly, as if they had been carved into her memory. A conversation she wished had never happened. But alas, it
to bearing ill intent, you easily believed it. Why? Because it was easier to accept that your real sister the - the one who carrie same blood as you - was
liar."
but no words came out. He didn't want to believe it. This didn't sound like him. He had never neglected his siblings. He had always listened and supported them behind the scenes.
was a stranger. And yet,
Penny resumed in the same calm tone. "Because one of your shipments contained illegal
Atlas stiffened.
your office, you were asleep at your desk. I thought I'd help out, even
the public was
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