Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 168

Chapter 168: Not all parents deserve to be parents

Looking at the small house where she saw Grace stopped, a shallow breath slipped past Penny’s nostrils.

’Grace is such a horrible liar,’ she commented in her heart. ’Why lie about her childhood? It didn’t seem like her mother left her be.’

It was an irony that when Penny was still a free woman, she didn’t have people whom she could call her friends. Even her colleagues weren’t her friends. But when she got into prison, somehow, she was able to call people her friends — some, even family, like Grace.

Grace was akin to her sister; they were cellmates halfway through Penny’s sentence.

And in a place like the maximum prison, they could either talk to each other or fight or get thrown into solitary confinement.

Aside from Grace’s sentence, Penny knew a thing or two about Grace. One of them was that Grace was abandoned by her mother, and then her father abused her. He abused her so much that Grace could only fight back and eventually end her father.

’It’s cruel, but... I don’t want her to end like that,’ Penny sighed once more, telling herself she was being foolish. Not because Penny was lucky and was blessed to redo everything, doesn’t mean she could save everyone. However, she still wanted to try at least once.

"Penny?"

Penny snapped out of her thoughts and looked back at her second brother. "There’s nothing, Second Brother. I just saw someone, and I thought I knew her."

"Oh." Hugo rocked his head in understanding. "Okay. Let’s go back?"

"Mhm."

As they turned, Hugo carefully walked a step closer beside her. "Penny, it’s not good for you to wander off to places you’re not familiar with. If I didn’t see you, everyone would be worried."

"Hehe. Sorry!" Penny averted the mild scolding with a sweet smile. ’It’s just that when I’m alone, I feel like older than everyone else.’

It wasn’t like Penny couldn’t go home alone. Even if she got lost here, she knew how to find her way home. But then again, in everyone’s eyes, she was an innocent thirteen-year-old in the body of a nine-year-old.

How frustrating!

While they walked away from the post Penny hid behind, they suddenly heard loud voices behind them. Their steps slowed down and halted, turning on their heel to see what the ruckus was about.

"You fucking bitch! Now that you’ve grown, you think you can talk back to me now, huh?!"

Deep lines appeared between Penny and Hugo’s brows as they saw the door of the small house fly open from the inside. Coming out of it was a man in a dirty tank top, where his bulging stomach was perfectly outlined. He was grabbing a teenage girl’s hair while another middle-aged woman was trying to stop him.

"Stop it! No, not her!"

"Get off me, you stupid bitch!" the man flung his arms away, making the middle-aged woman fall back inside the door.

"You think you can do things on your own now, huh?!" the man fumed at the teenage girl. "Fine! You stupid bitch! You’re just like your mother. Get the fuck out of my house if you think you can now fight your father!"