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."

kept her body," he said, casting Slater a nonchalant look. "And this same

His vision was blurry from the beating, but

of emotion from Zoren. But how could Zoren talk about something so grave and lie on

importantly, how

down. "How could they move up her

to make it into the mainstream media. If she had been executed, Slater would have heard about it. But alas, there was

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

trying to take a nap on the autopsy table. However, his eyes didn't linger on Zoren but rather on

Penny's body...?' he trailed off, his heart

for him to digest in under five minutes. The wave of emotions crashing inside him was a mix of everything, leaving his heart confused. Slater should be

he didn't feel like doing any of

It was just... dismay.

feeling to have at that moment, but it was all he knew. Slater was

minute of stifling silence, Zoren's calm voice cut

of his trance. "But sir,

his eyes landed on Slater again, he cocked his head slightly to the

from his coat. "That beating was also nothing personal," he said. "If you want to visit her, then this is the place

even think you

he exhaled. "This is the first

looking back. But just as he reached the autopsy table, he paused and gazed at it. Not long ago, Zoren had been in this place to retrieve

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

over his shoulder and added, "Think

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