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

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."

eyes. "This is the morgue where they kept her body," he said, casting Slater a nonchalant look. "And this same table I'm lying on is the one she lay on

was blurry from

a storm of emotion from Zoren. But how could Zoren talk about something so grave and lie on the same table where the dead

importantly, how could

move up her execution date?

to make it into the mainstream media. If she had been executed, Slater would

I wouldn't mind," he said with the same indifference. "But there would be no one to save if I die. You should've asked me nicely instead of going through all

lifted his gaze to the man, who appeared to be trying to take a nap on the autopsy table. However, his eyes didn't linger on Zoren but

trailed off, his heart conflicted over what to feel about this

too big 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 crying,

didn't feel like doing any

It was just... dismay.

that moment, but it was all he knew. Slater was filled

After another minute of stifling silence, Zoren's calm voice cut

snapped out of his

won't kill me anymore," Zoren said as he pushed himself to sit up. When his eyes landed on Slater again, he cocked his head slightly to the side. "Killing

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

do not deserve anything from her. I don't even think you deserve to live,

he exhaled. "This is the first and last time I'll let any of you get near her

linger and turned his back on him, walking away without looking back. But just as he reached the autopsy table, he paused and gazed

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

over his shoulder and