Chapter 1518: It was Uncle Wild's... not Yugi's.

[One hour ago...]

"Holy shit... Cassandra is not getting out of that prison."

Penny's mouth gaped as she stared at the article with wide eyes. For a second, she couldn't believe what she had just figured out.

The answer had been in front of her all along, but it took her an entire night to make the connection.

It wasn't a direct link, but the goal was similar-perhaps even better.

"I need to check something," she muttered, pushing herself up.

She didn't idle. Storming out of the office, she headed toward the elevator-only to find her four assistants already standing in front of it.

"Penny!" Patricia chimed. "Are you going home too? Want to join us for dinner-?"

"Get on the other one," Penny cut in, jumping into the elevator that coincidentally opened beside them.

The four assistants blinked as she pressed a button and glanced up. When the doors closed in front of them, they exchanged puzzled looks. For a moment, they tried to see where Penny was headed, but all they caught was that she was going to the floor above.

"What's that about?" Hayley wondered aloud. "She looks like she's in a hurry."

"Maybe she needs the bathroom," Patricia guessed, raising her brows when the other three gave her a look. "What? Is there something wrong with hurrying to the bathroom?"

Teddy shook his head and turned toward the other elevator, which had also arrived. Shawn offered Patricia a brief smile before following him in.

"Let's not dwell on it," Hayley whispered to Patricia. "By the way, will you help me pick out a dress this weekend? I have a wedding to attend..."

and though

to the bedroom where the investigation board was hidden. After placing her fingerprint to unlock it,

section related to her past arrest. "This timeline is moving much

some details. The board had been started by Hugo, and Penny had simply

in this timeline, not why. She'd missed the fact

she stepped back

her lips into a thin line. "There are still a

lot had happened in the

those things was Jonathan

everything in their family had

like now-for

as the matriarch of the Dayis family. According to Finn, after inheriting his parents'

shaken hands with Zoren in secret, while publicly backing Jonathan and

by both the Davis and Pierson families. Challenging Senator Smith's candidacy was simply

and Zoren are on our side," she whispered.

such ruin. Why had people targeted

because of First Brother," she murmured, eyes locked on the investigation board. "If not for my foolishness, it wouldn't

he told her not to meddle, she thought she was helping.

added. "Because just like the Bennets were vulnerable back then, the Smiths are ten times more

were true-and she

was already

had died from snooping too deep. Slater

Zoren had meddled-who

if everyone just accepts Cassandra's guilt... will it happen to her too?" Penny asked aloud, her

of relief. If her theory was right, then the Bennets were already saved at least from this conspiracy. But not from the ones who had

child and woman on

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