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

Chapter 1240: Speaking of the devil...

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"Charles?" Allison furrowed her brows, stopping from wiping the table when she noticed Charles had stopped.

For once, Allison had already told her husband not to help with the restaurant. After all, Charles was assisting Penny because their daughter had bought out the Miller Company, but for some reason, she hadn't put it under the Prime Group. Hence, Allison understood that her husband already had a full plate. She didn't want to bother him anymore.

But alas, here he was, helping out to clean the restaurant.

"Honey, are you okay?" she asked, walking over to him to check. "You just stopped all of a sudden. Are you hurt anywhere?"

Charles flashed her a smile. "Nothing, honey. I'm just... I feel like our children are talking about me. Or maybe they're picturing me in a very strange way."

"Charles." Allison huffed, looking him dead in the eye. "Why do you always think that our children would talk bad about their father?"

Because all their children inherited just his bad traits from him? It was still a good thing that they got their mother's beauty, so he could forgive them.

"Where are they, by the way?" he asked with a sigh.

"Atlas told me they'd be spending dinner at Zoren's and Penny's home."

"I knew it!"

are getting along? Even without us,

children don't care about you as much as you think." This time, Jessa's voice was heard, seated in the chair leisurely with a bottle of beer in her hand. "Those kids have their own worlds, and it doesn't revolve

children are like that, my

think about me and just remember all the beatings I gave them, I'd rather they

called child services on you before," Charles clicked his tongue, glaring at her. "By the way, when

gulped a mouthful of beer, making Charles narrow

"What kind of mother are you?! Nina is getting officially

know?!" Jessa barked back, watching him shut up at once.

breathed out heavily and shook her head, throwing up her hands. At this point, she was used to these two. If she didn't know better, she would think Jessa and Charles were siblings. They bantered like one. Even so, she

time ago. According to her, Jessa had gotten along well with her brother until Nina's mother came into the picture. Jessa shared it all with Allison after years of being friends and becoming

once had a little sister. However, they lost his sister when

up the cloth to wipe the table. "If Nina finds out about it, she will be very disappointed. So,

eyes. "Why do I have to cancel my spa appointment

is for

for her, that's why I'm canceling even if I don't want to. Even

long time, but he only had the decency to show himself to us! How could he - he should be glad I didn't beat

in agreement. "For once, I

so, she couldn't blame these two. When Nina told them she had a suitor both Charles and Jessa told her to bring him there. The first time, Nina agreed and even set a date. But alas,

for dinner so the family could meet the man she was with. However, Nina would just nod, but nothing. Even when she and Finn got engaged, there was never a proper family dinner or