Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Chapter 38

Winona kept checking her phone and waited till it was nearly 11.

Hannah should be awake by now.

Helen didn’t seem worried. “Wait and see! Someone will call in ten minutes and ask you to return.”

“What if they don’t?”

The elderly woman shook her head. “That’s not possible. They will, at most, try to act as if nothing is wrong. There’s no doubt that they will call.”

Winona waited until noon, and yet there was still no news from the Crawfords.

She couldn’t stay and do nothing anymore. “No, I have to go check on her!”

Helen tried to stop her to no avail. Why is my daughter so impatient?!

What child could bear to leave her mother’s side? What was the hurry?

**

Back at the Crawford manor.

Lilly was drawing with Hannah.

“For you.” Lilly handed Hannah a piece of paper.

Hannah harrumphed. “I don’t want yours.”

Despite her barbed words, she still accepted the paper.

Lilly was confused. “I thought you didn’t want it.”

Hannah stiffly muttered, “Mine isn’t white enough. I’ll use yours instead!”

“…”

Both of them drew something. “I’m going to show everyone my art!”

She then went searching for Hugh.

Hugh took off his reading glasses and asked, “What did you draw today?”

Lilly showed it off. “Look, Grandpa! It’s an egg.”

The elderly man couldn’t help but laugh. “And you, Hannah?”

Hannah felt depressed at the sight of her cousin and her grandfather getting along so well. Does Grandpa not like me?

eyes couldn’t help but light up when

answered,

studied her artwork. Her art skills weren’t bad in

Lilly’s artwork, but

phone and took a picture of both hers and Hannah’s

started, “My cousin and I drew these,

a voice message in response. “You two draw well! Do you mind

joyfully gave him the go-ahead after getting

both photos posted

couldn’t read well, but the light in her eyes grew brighter when she

this what being praised

and tells me

get attention even if I

at Lilly as

and Mommy say Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is here to rob me of

not like

her mother’s company and no one willing to play with her that afternoon, she went seeking out

and catching fish

but was once again turned away before she had even

was willing to leave without seeing her daughter. That was why she blindly wandered about outside

were surrounded by high walls while others

manor and the back mountain were only separated by iron railings that integrated themselves with the

was through the iron railing that Winona noticed her daughter from a distance,

sight left her discomfited. My daughter is a good girl. What if she becomes

from the top of her

catching fish with Hannah when she suddenly heard

woman on the other side of the

look around. “Huh?

covered her ears. “No, you didn’t hear a

Hannah’s hand and ran back inside with the buckets. “Hurry up, there’s

called to mind the image

sprinted off into the safety of

a loss

it’s because

household, Hannah had

was leading

livid. As her aunt, she

**

from their remedial lessons that

Crawford sons were present as it was a

being home all day? Let’s go camping at the wetlands park

questioningly as she bit down on

meant

“Camping means going out into the

“But we have a house?

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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