Chapter 249: Penny’s literal headache

"Are you sure you didn’t try to screw me over through Sven?" Atlas held the driver’s door before Penny could get in. "I won’t get angry."

Penny studied his face and could almost see the horns sprouting from the top of his head. He’ll definitely get angry. He seemed ready.

"That cousin of yours is lying through his teeth," Penny scoffed. "Why would I do business with someone like that?"

When Penny helped Haines and Charles resolve an issue in the company, she learned a valuable lesson that day: if she was going to do something, it was best to keep it private. That’s why only a few people knew the person behind Prime Group.

"That’s a lot of nerve on his part." Atlas shook his head, pleased that his sister wasn’t trying to give him a headache. "If you say so, then fine."

"First Brother, do you want me to screw him up?"

"No. Sven is crucial to the company. Let him be."

Penny frowned. "Are you going to let him get all the credit?"

"The company’s success is also ours."

"What a bummer." Penny pouted, clicking her tongue with a sigh. "Fine, fine. But I’m not doing business with him. The only reason Global Prime Logistics is at the top of my list is because of you. I’m not negotiating with him."

"I understand," Atlas nodded. "Go now. Do you have plans today?"

"I’m going to the building. Nina’s there."

"Okay."

Penny turned to leave but paused, looking back at him. "First Brother, you’re Charles Bennet’s eldest son. Don’t let that cousin of yours push you around."

"He’s not just my cousin, but also yours. And I’m not letting him push me around."

"I’m not in the Bennet family anymore."

Atlas arched a brow. "What did you say?"

"Kidding! Kidding! Ha ha!" Penny faced him squarely while smiling sweetly. "First Brother, prepare your proposal for Ito Motors. That Sven is going to rip you off."

"Grandpa already said..."

"Raise our rates."

Atlas frowned. "Are you kidding me?"

The main purpose of the engagement was to foster a good relationship between the two families and ensure mutual benefit. But since marriage was no longer an option, the Bennets would have to compensate the other party.

In other words, they had to lower their rates by a few percent to continue doing business with that company.

Penny was a businesswoman herself; she should understand this without anyone explaining it to her.

The corner of her lips curled up into a smirk. "Raise your price and don’t bend." She winked at him. "Otherwise, tell them to find other logistics services that can match our price and quality. Trust me on this one."

"At least tell me the reason," Atlas frowned. "Penny, our elders and relatives are annoying, but I don’t want more internal strife that could potentially tear down our company."

"I care about your business as much as you do. So, you’ll know," she smirked confidently. "Anyway, I’m off~!"

With that, Penny got inside the car while Atlas closed the door for her. Taking a step back, Atlas watched the car move in reverse before it made a turn.

"Seriously," he sighed while watching her speed away. "What is she planning this time?"

Atlas shook his head and pondered. "Well, Ito Motors has been leeching off the Bennets for a long time now."

He shrugged and turned, strutting toward his car to head to work as well.

Atlas might be the head of the family, but he had a high regard for Penny’s advice and judgment. She was, after all, the smartest and most successful Bennet of their generation—perhaps even the previous generations.

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Penny idled in the parking lot outside the building because Nina had told her she needed to run a quick errand. She didn’t complain; Nina had a prior commitment before Penny reached out to her for this project. She was already glad Nina was working on her office before anything else.

"Is a fireplace too much to ask for in an office?" she wondered, her eyes falling on the marriage certificate in the vacant front seat. "This marriage license again."

Picking it up, Penny studied it once more.

"Registering a marriage means both parties should be aware," she whispered. "Did this other man register the marriage? But without me, that’s still impossible."

What a headache.

Penny told herself to be patient until Yugi reached out to her again. If not for this, she would have confronted Sven today.

"And we got married in this country," she murmured. "I haven’t been here in the past five years."

The trip from where she was five years ago to this country took almost a day by plane. Penny would definitely remember making such a long trip to marry a stranger.

"This is giving me a literal headache." She placed the certificate down and leaned back, tapping her fingers on the steering wheel. "I do not like this twist."

In the past twelve years, Penny had taken a lot of action to turn her life around. However, all those actions also required a lot of thinking and consideration.

Penny had a theory about why she and Haines experienced such an incident when it didn’t even happen in her previous life: it was because Haines never stopped investigating the baby swap.

Assuming in her previous life Haines stopped investigating because he left the country almost immediately, but Charles didn’t, it would explain Charles’s accident.

"I wonder if Uncle Haines managed to get information from Dad," she frowned slightly. "This marriage... it has nothing to do with that, right? But why?"

Having an enemy whose identity they didn’t know had always been a headache for Penny and Haines. However, it compelled her to move forward cautiously.

Amid her solemn private time to rethink the situation and this unexpected marriage, Penny’s phone buzzed. Seeing the caller, she raised a brow.

Dean.

"What?" Her voice was cold and uninterested when she answered. Her arched brow slowly furrowed as she listened to Dean’s words. "Fine. I’ll come now."

Having said that, Penny hung up on him and sent Nina a quick message before speeding off to where that man was.