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!"

Even without us, they'd have dinner together. Knowing they're getting along well is a good thing for both

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

if your children are like that, my children

just remember all the beatings I gave them, I'd rather they not talk about me and find comfort in the shared

I should've called child services on you before," Charles clicked his tongue, glaring at her. "By the way,

mouthful of beer,

he gasped. "What kind of mother are you?! Nina is getting

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

these two. If she didn't know better, she would think Jessa and Charles were siblings. They bantered like one.

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 each other's

little sister. However, they lost his sister when he was still a

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

I have to cancel my spa appointment for

this is

don't want to. Even so, that brat I mean, that man she's marrying... I don't like

decency to show himself to us! How could he - he should be glad I didn't beat him up

agreement. "For once,

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,

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