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

Chapter 1468: Let them come at us

Meanwhile...

"How is it?" Penny asked, arms crossed as she stood among her guests, watching the event from the railing.

Yugi, standing beside her, shook his head. "There's nothing I can do at the moment."

"..." Penny kept her mouth shut, though a big smile spread across her face as she turned to the group. "My dearest guests, I'll be stepping away for a while. Please do enjoy the event."

With that, Penny turned, her smile vanishing almost immediately. As she walked off, Atlas, who was among the guest arched a brow while following his sister's figure with his gaze.

Meanwhile, Teddy and Hayley quickly followed their boss.

"Hayley, stay here," she ordered, stopping Hayley in her tracks.

Hayley lowered her head without a word, stealing a glance at Penny's expression. Noticing the whispered exchanges between Penny and Yugi, she could sense something was off. Penny wouldn't wear that face if everything were fine.

Hayley turned on her heel, forcing a smile, knowing she had to fill in for Penny and keep the guests entertained. But as she approached the group, she stopped near Patricia and Shawn.

"Follow her," she said to Patricia, causing the latter's brows to rise. "It's better if one of you stays here."

"Huh?" Patricia blinked, confused, as Hayley walked past. She glanced at Shawn, who simply shrugged.

"I don't know what's going on," he said.

Despite the confusion, Patricia eventually followed after Penny. Meanwhile, Shawn followed Hayley for some answers as it seemed there's a switch in partners now.

"Hayley," he said, stopping beside her, keeping just enough distance from the guests to avoid being overheard, "what's going on?"

"I don't know," Hayley sighed. "But it can't be good. Otherwise, the boss wouldn't be getting involved personally."

days, Hayley had learned something important: Yugi's role wasn't just running his own department — he handled

If not, they had to escalate it to her. Since Yugi got Penny involved, it was surely big enough

sure no one notices anything's wrong," she said, giving Shawn a

not exactly a social butterfly, forced a smile. "I'll do my

to look into it," Yugi said as he walked with Penny, this time not bothering to whisper-the event was loud enough to mask them. "But I just heard from headquarters: without full activation, it's hard to determine what

behind them with

she

Teddy furrowed his brows, knowing Penny

told to

"By who?"

"Hayley."

changed his mind. "Just stay quiet and observe. Keep your ears and eyes

hearing, he was starting to piece things together. Despite the blurry lines, he could say

of," Yugi

He met her gaze and nodded.

she

lead them while Penny, Patricia, and Teddy followed. He noticed Patricia trailing behind

tech experts were already

Penny ordered, striding toward an employee seated at a

fingers flying across the keyboard. "We found this while running security checks before the event. It shouldn't be here. But

it, our whole system

crashed."

computer and

try troubleshooting?"

answered. "But it's no use. It's attacking

hardware-it overheats just from

tense silence followed before Penny's eyes shifted

tried," Yugi said quickly, knowing what she was about to ask. "Same results There's nothing else I can do. We'd have to replace the parts. But even then, I'm not

Penny," another team member added, "whoever did