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

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..."

much about Penny. Office hours were over, and though they'd

the investigation board was hidden. After placing her fingerprint to unlock it, she switched on the lights and approached the

section related to her past arrest. "This timeline

been started by Hugo, and Penny had simply added whatever she could recall. But now,

Penny had only considered what had happened in this timeline, not why. She'd missed the fact that she

working quickly, she stepped back and studied the

her lips into a thin line. "There are still a lot of questions, but

lot had happened

was Jonathan and Nina's

everything in their

like now-for the

as the matriarch of the Dayis family. According to Finn, after inheriting his parents' business, he had merged it into a single empire. But with a business that

shaken hands with Zoren in secret, while publicly backing

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

this life... both Finn and Zoren are on our side," she whispered. "And more importantly...

always wondered what she had done to bring such ruin. Why had people targeted her

murmured, eyes locked on the investigation board. "If not for my foolishness, it wouldn't have happened he would've caught the

a busybody, doing everything to impress Atlas. Even when he told her not to meddle, she thought she was helping. And she

all that," she added. "Because just like the Bennets were vulnerable back then, the Smiths are ten

to mention, if the claims were true-and she believed they

was already

Atlas was starting to believe her innocence. Hugo had died from snooping too deep. Slater had let others manipulate him

had

it happen to her too?" Penny asked

of her felt a strange sense of relief. If her theory was right, then the Bennets were already

forgotten about that child