Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 99

99 The culprit 

“Lily, why?” 

When the school bell rang, Lily, Penny, and Ginnie walked their way out of the building using the longer route. This time, they were taking this path not because of Penny, but because of Lily. Lily pursed her quivering lips as she looked at Ginnie. “I was a little angry and told myself I’d just tell him things nicely. But then, my mouth wouldn’t stop!” She then clung to the little Penny for help. “Penny, am I dead?” 

Penny’s face contorted as she thought about what Lily had told them. They wanted to ask her when she got back from the restroom, but their teacher arrived. During their self–study class, Lily was so distraught they didn’t get an answer from her. 

Lily only confessed when she asked them to take the other route. 

“You’ll be fine, I guess?” Penny laughed awkwardly. 

“You guess? You’re not sure?” Lily dramatically wept, her anxiety skyrocketing at the thought of Ray’s wrath. 

It wouldn’t have been a surprise if the school already contacted her parents. 

While Lily lamented, Penny couldn’t help but sigh faintly. Her lips curled up, gazing at the poor girl with appreciation. Lily obviously knew the consequences of what she had done or said, but she said it anyway because of Penny. 

‘She did tell me she’d be loyal to me.’Her smile stretched, holding Lily’s hand and then Ginnie’s. “Penny?” Lily stopped her drama and looked at the plump hands holding her. 

Ginnie also gazed at her hand, her cheeks turning red. ‘Penny has a soft hand.” 

“Let’s not worry about that,” said Penny. “If he is that bad, I’m sure the headmaster would’ve summoned you to his office. Moreover, I believe the headmaster will not kick you out just because you told his grandson the truth.” 

The fact that Ray was the headmaster’s grandson was surprising. However, Penny didn’t question It because, in her first life, she focused more on achievements to gain her brother’s affection. Lily was barely appeased. 

“Worse comes to worst. I’ll testify!” Penny added reassuringly. “I’ll ask my dad to stand up for me too. Or my uncle!” 

Lily and Ginnie couldn’t conceal the look of doubt in their eyes. Penny’s father and uncle? Wasn’t she a scholar student, and that was why she was able to get into this school? 

“Penny, did your dad graduate here as well?” asked Lily out of pure curiosity. 

“Yes.” 

“Oh, that’s why!” Lily nodded in understanding. “So, your father probably knew the headmaster, 

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right?” 

“They have a good relationship.” 

“Penny, no wonder you’re smart!” Ginnie cheered. 

In their minds, the reason Penny brought up her father and uncle was because they were also scholar students in the past. Thinking about it, Penny didn’t seem very poor and her things were 

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all brand new though simple. If her father graduated here, then that also meant his father worked in a good company. So, they quickly assumed she was from a higher middle class. 

Oh, how fast they assume. 

“We’re almost there, Lily intoned as the three of them walked hand in hand. “Huh? Is that Nina?” The three of them looked at each other when they saw Nina waiting outside the gates. After a few seconds, a car pulled up in front of Nina. 

“That’s a different car…‘Penny thought, now curious why Nina was being picked up in school with a different car. ‘Is she using some car transportation services to pick her up? But isn’t that a little expensive, considering Aunt Jessa’s house is over an hour’s drive from here? Even with her allowance, it wasn’t enough to sustain her every day.” 

Unlike Penny, the two girls had different thoughts in mind. 

“Wasn’t she absent today?” Ginnie blurted out in confusion. 

Lily nodded. “Yeah, I didn’t see her today. How come she’s still in her school uniform? She didn’t skip class, did she?” 

“Nina? Skipping classes?” Ginnie shifted her attention to Lily. “I don’t think she would do that.” “Well… Patricia is also absent for a few days now.” 

“Maybe she has a boyfriend?” 

As the two girls exchanged their confused remarks, only then did Penny realize she hadn’t seen Nina today. Penny barely spent a brain cell with Nina, but was always alert for anything that Nina might do. But because of the many events today, Penny didn’t realize that Nina didn’t come to school today. 

“Skipping classes, huh?” Penny muttered. “Then where could have she stayed all day?”