Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 1158

Chapter 1158: The tiny kind of pinch

[Back to the Base]

"What did you just say?" Penny gasped in disbelief, glancing back at the barely clothed men she had tied up in one of the many rooms of the building.

After cornering them earlier, Penny had disarmed them and brought them to the safest, empty room she could find. Surprisingly, this building had plenty of unused rooms. Given the number of people she had seen earlier, she knew that one building wouldn’t be enough to accommodate everyone. Yet, this part of the building remained vacant.

She had stripped them almost naked, leaving only their boxer shorts on, just in case they were hiding anything underneath. Of course, they tried to fight her, using brute strength, but found themselves on the ground, making it easy for her to tie them together.

But just when she thought things were going as smoothly as planned, she realized she was wrong.

"What do you mean, my brother and Benjamin are gone?" she asked, squatting in front of them in disbelief. "They couldn’t be gone unless someone moved them!"

"But they are!" one man replied in frustration. "When the big boss told us to get them, we arrived at the scene where they were taken! They weren’t there! And the guys who took them were knocked unconscious! That’s why our other guys are looking for them!"

"..." Penny opened and closed her mouth, but no words came out.

Now it made sense.

Glenn had been genuinely interested in the ransom money and returning Slater and Benjamin. He might not be the brightest, but someone like him should understand the dangers of being too greedy. The situation changed when one of his men returned without Slater and Benjamin.

"No wonder..." she whispered to herself, realization dawning on her. "Since it came down to this, he immediately pushed his luck."

After all, Glenn had been focused on the ransom money. Since he didn’t know where or how Slater and Benjamin had disappeared, he needed something else to secure it. The addition of the island was likely because he thought that since he was holding Zoren captive, why not go all out?

"Shit," she breathed through gritted teeth, glaring at the men before her. The two flinched when they saw the intensity in her eyes. "Tell me everything."

"What?"

"The details! Where did they go? How did it happen? Everything!"

"We don’t know!" one man yelped. "We already told you everything we know! When we came back, they were already gone! I swear!"

"Those who took them, where are they?"

The two men looked reluctant until she grabbed one of their hairs. "Ahh!! They’re in the infirmary! They wouldn’t wake up when we tried to ask them!"

"Are they dead?"

"I don’t—ahh! No, I don’t think so!" The man winced, trying to reach for his head as she kept gripping his hair. "Ah—that’s all I know! Our guys are also looking for them—ah! It hurts!"

Penny kept her grip for a little longer before releasing him. He whimpered in pain, but she didn’t care. He should be grateful she hadn’t listened to her intrusive thoughts and shot him. All she did was grab his hair. If she had a drink, she might have gone to more extreme measures.

"You guys only had one job: to keep your hostages!" she barked, rising to her feet. "Yet you can’t even do that! What are these guns for, huh!?"

She hissed as the two men looked up at her, confused.

’Why is she mad that our hostages got away?’ they wondered because that’s what it sounded like to them. ’Didn’t she want to rescue them?’