Chapter 1291: Stalking for nothing
Seeing Penny and Zoren was not new to Dean. However, this was the first time he had seen such a scene unfold before his eyes. A shallow breath escaped him as he looked away, ignoring the shameless slander that kept flying out of her mouth.
Zoren, whose heart quickly melted at Penny’s warm tears, sighed in defeat. He glanced at Atlas, who shrugged in response.
"Penny, don’t cry anymore," he said, stroking her back reassuringly. "I wasn’t mad, just worried."
Penny hiccuped and looked up at him. "Really?"
"Mhm."
"Hehe." She giggled intuitively, then caught herself. Clearing her throat, she adopted a weak expression and hugged him again. "Still, I feel bad about it."
No, she wasn’t — Dean, Atlas, and even Zoren’s thought.
For once, the three of them had to agree on one thing. Even so, it was up to Zoren whether to drag this on. Obviously, he didn’t plan on doing that. After all, his wife was already in his arms.
"So." Zoren slowly lifted his eyes to Dean. "You were following my half-brother?"
Dean’s breath hitched for a moment, not expecting Zoren to address Jonathan as such. "Half... brother? Uncle, don’t tell me you’ve quickly accepted that he is... he is your half-brother?"
"That’s what the DNA testing says," Zoren shrugged indifferently. "So, he is my half-brother."
Dean balled his hands into tight fists, his jaw tightening. This didn’t please him at all. It wasn’t like he knew Zoren didn’t like Jonathan, but Zoren acknowledging that bastard didn’t sit well with him. It was more infuriating than having to spend the last hour with the Bennets.