Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25: She got lucky!

In the Cortez Household, Yugi and Yuri eagerly leaned forward after Jessa sent a message to Penny’s parents.

"Mom, did they agree?" Yugi asked anxiously. "What did they say?"

Yuri didn’t say anything, but her eyes carried a look of anticipation.

Jessa glossed her eyes over her children and crossed her arms. She leaned back on the couch in their living room and smirked.

"They said they will meet me first."

The two children looked at each other, unsure if that was a good thing.

"Don’t worry, kids. Your mother got this," Jessa reassured, her cunningness flickering in her eyes.

When Penny left the household, even Jessa felt like the house was a little empty and bigger. Penny was the family’s savior. Initially, Jessa thought Penny was better off with her real family. Even so, she was curious about what sort of family the Bennets were, so she did some digging, and she gradually realized that the Bennet family was filthy rich!

Well, the compensation money she got already told her they were.

However, after a while, her twins kept making a fuss. They also kept saying things. Initially, she brushed it off, but the more she thought about it, the more it affected her.

Penny was the long-lost daughter of the Bennet family. The said family didn’t even know her existence because of another child who had been living Penny’s life!

"That brat!" Jessa felt bitter at the thought of that child who stole Penny’s life. "She’s just like her ungrateful and greedy mother. I wouldn’t be Jessa Cortez if I let that brat bully my genius niece!"

Hearing their mother, Yugi and Yuri nodded profusely.

"Mom, that’s right! That brat will surely bully Penny to mark her territory!" Yugi yelled, thinking of the rich people’s problems. They’ve seen it in the dramas.

"But she might be kind..." Yuri trailed off when Yugi glared at her.

"Nonsense!" he exclaimed, almost enraged at the ideas in his mind. "That brat will give our Penny a hard time and Penny is too kind to retaliate! If we don’t do something as her family, then we don’t deserve her!"

Too kind to retaliate? Yuri gazed at her twin brother, who seemed to forget how vicious Penny could be.

Jessa couldn’t help but agree with her son. She wouldn’t even give back Penny if Yuri didn’t get sick and needed expensive treatment. The child was her cash cow, but also Penny had grown on her all these years.

"That’s enough!" Jessa raised her chin, her aura exuding reassurance and conviction. "Your mom will handle it. That brat doesn’t know what our family went through all these years. She can’t have it easy just because she got lucky!"

***

Back in the Bennet Mansion, the day went surprisingly calm. When dinner came, the entire family gathered. Usually, Slater would start throwing attitudes in the middle or the end of the meal, but he didn’t say a word.

The couple darted their eyes on their children, the surprise on their faces evident. No one argued and ate their meal. Once they were done, they politely excused themselves and resigned to their bedrooms.

It would be nice if she could just be her kid... _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}