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

Chapter 1282

Chapter 1282: Walking corpse

"What are you talking about? Penny's dead?"

The unrelenting smirk on Slater's swollen face slowly vanished as he gazed up at Mark. For some reason, it felt like his ear was blocked, and he was starting to

hear things.

"Huh?" was all Slater could manage to say.

What did Mark just say?

Penny was dead?

Slater opened and closed his bloody mouth, his eyes searching Mark's face. In one sense, Mark seemed just as confused as Slater.

"What do you mean my sister's dead?" Slater mumbled, his expression blank. "She can't be dead. The execution date hasn't-it's still too early for that."

Were they trying to break him in a different way because the beating hadn't worked?

Slater wanted to believe that was the case. But the genuine puzzlement on Mark's face stopped him from fully convincing himself.

Mark shot Zoren a quick look, unsure what to say. He knew this was something Zoren had to explain himself. But seeing that Zoren wouldn't budge from the autopsy table, Mark hesitated.

"Her execution date was moved up," Zoren said in the same calm tone, his eyes still shut. "And she was transferred to a different prison that granted the request."

a nonchalant

blurry

Zoren talk about something so grave and lie on the same table where the dead

importantly, how could

her execution date? And

into the mainstream media. If she had been

in the morgue, Zoren slowly peeled his eyes away and closed them again. "If you could save her by killing me, I wouldn't mind," he said with the same indifference. "But there would be no

the autopsy table. However, his eyes didn't linger on Zoren but rather

trailed off, his heart conflicted over what to feel about

under five minutes. The wave of emotions crashing inside him was a mix of everything, leaving his heart confused. Slater

like doing

It was just... dismay.

strange feeling to have at that moment, but it was all he

of stifling silence, Zoren's calm voice cut through the thick air again. "Let

out of his trance.

pushed himself to sit up. When his eyes landed on Slater

he jumped to his feet, approaching Slater while pulling something from his coat. "That beating was also

I don't even think you deserve to live, Slater Bennet. I would've killed you myself, but... killing you is simply

first and last time I'll

he paused and gazed at it. Not long ago, Zoren had been in this place to retrieve the body of a stranger

whispered, his eyes fixed on the empty autopsy table. "I heard she died in the first thirty seconds-perhaps the worst thirty seconds

over his shoulder and added, "Think

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