Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 105

Chapter 105: Baiting Penny

"Miss Penny, the food is ready," Butler Jen announced outside Penny’s room.

"Okay, Butler Jen! I’ll just finish this!" she answered with a wide smile.

After ten minutes, Haines knocked on her door.

"Penny? Do you want to eat?" he asked, head peeking in the door.

Penny, who was sitting in the study chair, looked back at him and said. "Just a minute, Uncle. I will come down after this."

"Okay." Haines slowly closed the door and sighed.

After Haines, one of the servants also came to get her. However, Penny kept saying she would come down to eat after she finished her homework.

Thirty minutes later... everyone looked up when the head maid came down with a grim expression. It only meant Penny used the same excuse.

Everyone had been discreet about their plans for today, but it seemed they had to tell her about it just to make her come down! What a dilemma.

Butler Jen scanned the faces of the Bennet couple and their boys. Their worries were apparent. He then glanced at Haines, only to see the latter studying the family.

"It seems... it’s my fault," Haines confessed, and they shifted their attention to him. "Penny didn’t even remember it was her birthday, but I greeted her."

She acted strangely since then.

"Sir Haines, I don’t think that’s the case," Butler Jen argued, but Charles already spoke.

"What do you mean by that Haines?" asked Charles. "Are you saying she purposely tried to forget her birthday?"

"I can’t say that confidently, but that’s what I think."

Allison pursed her lips. "So, Mrs. Cortez is telling the truth, huh? That Penny doesn’t like birthdays."

Allison reached out to Jessa early this morning. As usual, Jessa was aggressive with a tone as if the entire world were against her. But when Allison told Jessa about their plans for Penny’s birthday, Jessa somehow calmed down and told her some advice.

According to Jessa, Penny never planned or thought of her birthday. It wasn’t like Penny disliked it, said Jessa, but rather, she openly said it was unnecessary to make a big deal out of it. Even so, during her birthdays, Jessa told Allison she would cook for Penny and the Cortez Family would sing her a happy birthday. Before Penny was found by her real family, Jessa planned a trip for the family.

Allison didn’t think a trip would be a good idea since they still had school tomorrow, but she made a mental note of it.

"Ali, I don’t think she hates it," Charles squeezed her shoulder with a smile. "Today, she’ll have a birthday with the family. And then next time, we’ll do some charity events. Right, boys?"

The Bennet Brothers nodded because they informed their parents of Penny’s good cause.

"All we have to do is make her come down," Charles huffed, his expression slowly turning solemn.

At this point, it looked like a mission for them.

"I’ll call her —"

"Aha!" Allison’s remarks halted when Slater suddenly bumped the bottom of his fist against his palm. "I have an idea!"

Everyone raised their brows at the third young master, watching his lips broaden from ear to ear.

"Slater, what are you planning?" Atlas inquired suspiciously.

[From: Lookout

Boss, do I have to go to school early tomorrow?]

[To: Lookout

No need. Thanks.]

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