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

Chapter 1566: Consoling the wife... or the husband (?)

Meanwhile...

Penny carefully held a small test tube up to the fluorescent light until it glinted. The corners of her lips twitched as they curled upward.

"This will probably work," she muttered to herself with a giggle. "Holy..."

Without wasting a second, she slid her stool over to the next counter to test it out. She'd been working on this for a while, tweaking one of Dean's theories, which had led her to this promising new formula.

As Penny busied herself, Zoren quietly peeked inside. As usual, he moved silently, carefully avoiding anything he nearly broke the last time. He managed to slip in without disrupting her focus.

He quietly claimed the stool at the far end of the counter, resting his chin on his hand as he watched her.

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His lips formed a subtle smile. Even when she's busy, she looks so pretty. Admiration lit his eyes as a gentle smile tugged at his mouth. freewebnovel.com

Once I wrap up some loose ends at the Pierson Corporation, I'll quit.

Even if it meant being the fifth member of Penny's team in the CEO's office, and Atlas's sacrificial lamb, he didn't mind as long as his office was inside hers.

How wonderful life would be if he could just go to work with her, spend the day at her side, and go home together-never a moment apart.

What a dream.

"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" Penny's panicked voice suddenly echoed through the quiet lab.

She frantically tried to stop the reaction forming in the antidote she was making- until she realized it was already too late.

"Shoot!" she cried, leaping over the other counter and diving for cover.

was about to unfold-but before he could reach her, Penny

BOOM!

lab, accompanied by the shattering of glass. A harsh chemical scent-something like super-concentrated bleach-wafted through the air, forcing both Penny and Zoren to cover

spot Zoren

his hand raise in a

covering his mouth as he

and darted across the lab toward the

one on that side," she called while

window, stuck his head out for a lungful of fresh air, and then hurried

the windows open,

their respective windows until the thick stench finally began to

across the

the counter. Even from a distance, she could see the bubbling, acid-like substance on

"I

seemed safe enough, they left their windows and cautiously approached the mess. Chemical droplets still dripped from the counter's

but the way the liquid hissed against the tile

said, half-expecting the tile to dissolve. "Careful.

insane," Penny muttered, shaking her head at the mess. "This is

had she gone

didn't rely solely on Dean's theories she'd even adjusted the more questionable parts-but none of her trials gave the results she'd hoped for. If anything, each experiment

saw Zoren already holding a cleaning rag. "Wait—" she said quickly, making him turn. "What are you doing?" "Cleaning up. Otherwise, you'll get

expression softened. "That's not the right way to clean this up. The cloth will react terribly to the

"Oh."

tools," she said. "You stay by the window. Inhaling too much of this stuff isn't

"Alright."

door. Zoren

it'll take a while for the smell to fade, he thought, glancing back at the

this her life in her