Chapter 583: I’m family too!
[Flashback]
Penny’s sniffles and hiccups echoed in the room as she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, but to no avail. No matter how many times she tried to dry her eyes, she couldn’t. Her tears were simply overflowing.
Smacking her lips, she forced a smile as she gazed at the man lying on the bed. She reached out to Charles’s hand, squeezing it gently.
"Daddy," she called, pausing to let the mechanical heart rate fill the silence. "Please don’t leave...?"
Before Charles’s accident, things had always been bad. However, even when he disciplined and scolded her, he would still calmly talk to her afterward. Penny had been subjected to many accusations from Nina and her cousin, Sofia. Jessa and the Bennet family weren’t helping at all. Charles had no choice but to discipline her privately, but he always defended her publicly.
It wasn’t ideal, and he wasn’t perfect.
However, ever since Charles had his accident, no one could protect her anymore. Even Allison was being talked down to by Charles’s own family. They even blamed her for what happened to him.
"Dad... can you be... okay?" she whispered with quivering lips. "Brother Atlas is becoming scary..."
In this life, Penny couldn’t understand everything. She couldn’t understand why Atlas had become so strict with everything and everyone—especially with her. She was too young to realize that with Charles in such an unstable state, Atlas had to grow up faster to take care of the family. Allison was too weak and could only endure the verbal and mental abuse from the Bennet family.
Penny had no idea, even at sixteen years old. All she knew was that if Charles got better, things would improve. However, their hope that Charles would get better was slowly dimming. After all, he hadn’t shown any signs of improvement, and today, he had a heart attack.