Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 578

Chapter 578: You’re alive

"How about my death?! Didn’t you think it was a nonsensical sentence?! Did it make sense to you?!"

Thick silence hung in the air, with Penny’s voice echoing.

Nathaniel’s eyes shook as he gazed at the person sitting on him. He furrowed his brows, but the panic and adrenaline surging through every fiber of his body made it difficult to process the information.

Angel and Mark furrowed their brows and cast Zoren a look for answers. But alas, Zoren gazed down at the pit with equal confusion.

Penny gripped Nathaniel’s collar as tightly as she could, her body shaking with all the emotions swelling in her chest.

"You didn’t do anything to me?" she breathed out a jagged breath, almost laughing. "How dare you speak such things when you and I... know what you did to me?"

Nathaniel clasped her wrist, wiggling aggressively to break free from her grip. However, with the exhausting activity of the day and her weight, he couldn’t. All he could do was struggle and shout back.

"Miss Penny! You’re being nonsensical! Please let me go! I haven’t done anything to you! It’s probably someone else!" He kicked in the air, but everything he did was futile. "It’s the wrong person! Whoever wronged you is probably an imposter! Please! I’ll get you justice—whoever posed as me!"

Listening to his yells only made her grip his collar tighter. She gazed at him and observed him with gritted teeth.

"Miss Penny! I’m innocent! Don’t do this to me! I don’t deserve it!"

The more she listened, the more her body trembled with anger. Why? Because most of what he said were the very words she had shouted at the top of her lungs. But they all fell on deaf ears.

"Get me... justice?" Her voice was low and full of sarcasm, but it was enough to stop him. "You’d get me justice?"

Nathaniel froze, thinking he had finally had a breakthrough. "I will find the person who wronged you! After all, I also have grievances with that person—whoever they are! This wouldn’t have happened if not for that person, right?! We’re on the same side!"

"Miss Penny, I would never—ack!" Nathaniel stopped as he felt her hand wrap around his neck. He clasped her wrist, using every bit of his energy to stop her. However, at this point, he knew she would kill him.

She would do it.

"Ack!" he struggled beneath her, kicking the air and then the ground, slapping at her hands and grabbing them. None of his actions succeeded. If anything, her grip on his neck only tightened.

"Miss..." he breathed one last time. "... please..." _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}

Slowly, the remaining strength Nathaniel had slipped out of his control. He still tried to pry her hands off of him, but to no avail.

"She’s going to kill him," Mark panicked, unsure whether he should step in now or if Angel would. He turned to Angel, but the latter only watched with wide eyes, as if his mind had gone blank.

"I’m going—" Mark halted when he caught Zoren’s figure from the corner of his eye. When he turned his head, all he saw was Zoren sliding into the pit. "Master!"

Mark jogged another step, only to see Zoren land perfectly.

"Penny." Zoren clasped Penny’s arm but didn’t pull it away. He simply held her shoulder, squeezing it gently. "Stop now."

Penny didn’t budge and squeezed Nathaniel’s neck harder.

"Penny." This time, Zoren’s call was stern and adamant. "Let go."