Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 1519

Chapter 1519: If there’s a next time for you.

Penny should’ve known that Wild had a habit of mixing his drinks with alcoholic beverages. Wild, after all, might look a little wild, but he had long since changed his drinking style. He didn’t like the raw taste of alcohol anymore, and so he’d started making ladies’ drinks.

What was certain, though, was that Wild had gotten better at mixing them. The drinks didn’t taste as bad as straight alcohol, but they still had that kick.

It was just that Penny had been careless and had gotten her instant karma for stealing some of their food.

And now, here she was—the drunken Penny—riding with Jonathan.

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[PRESENT TIME]

"I saw you there. Right before I died."

Penny hummed, studying Jonathan’s profile. She had wanted to abduct this guy even before Cassandra’s arrest. However, she hadn’t done it, because Penny was confident she could handle whatever Jonathan threw at her.

But Jonathan had thrown a curveball at someone else.

No one had seen that coming. _{fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com}

"Why?" she asked again, her voice low. "Nathan?"

This time, Jonathan’s breath hitched, and his heart skipped a beat. He cast her another quick look, wide-eyed.

Penny raised her brows at him. "You’re not the only one doing your research. I know about you, Nathaniel. And I’ll keep digging until I uncover your worst secret."

"..." Jonathan stared ahead, his unblinking eyes fixed on the windshield, his hand gripped tightly around the steering wheel.

How did she know? He wondered. I erased all my records from that orphanage. Did I miss something?

One of the conditions Jonathan had with one of his deals was to erase all records related to his time at the orphanage. Considering the people he dealt with, no one should have known about it.

But Penny knew.

And this wasn’t just a guess. If someone looked into Jonathan’s history, they would have found something completely different. Instead of the orphanage, they would have found an entirely different story.

After all, he claimed he was raised abroad, not in Anteca. If Penny knew this, it also meant Zoren knew.

Fuck... just how close were they to the truth?

"Uh-oh," Penny mused, smirking. "You didn’t think I’d find out, huh? Why? Did you get it erased?"

Her eyes twinkled with amusement, already guessing what had happened. Jonathan’s files were encrypted and hidden, but not deleted. If Jonathan himself had deleted them, they would be gone—but only an expert would know how to retrieve them. After all, not many people knew about this, but there were ways to find deleted files.

Deletion was just erasing the shortcut to access the file. It would always remain unless the person who deleted it was an expert. In that case, it would be unrecoverable.