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?

help but

answered, “It’s a

brow as he studied her artwork. Her art skills weren’t

as Lilly’s artwork, but it was filled with

a picture of both

record button and started, “My cousin

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

joyfully gave him

had both photos posted on his

read well, but the light in her eyes grew brighter

this what being

Mommy praises me and tells me I do a

attention even if I

as she

say Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is

like that

mother’s company and no one willing to play with

were now armed with small buckets and catching fish in a shallow

but was once again turned away before she had even

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

areas were surrounded by high walls while others were surrounded by the

by iron railings that

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

good girl. What if

top of her lungs. “Over here,

catching fish with Hannah when she suddenly

looked up to see the woman on the

to look around.

ears. “No, you

back inside with the buckets. “Hurry

mind the image of the ‘person’ from the

the safety of the manor without

was at a loss for

it’s

since she entered the Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly criticized

she was leading

was livid. As her aunt, she absolutely

**

Drake, and Josh returned from their remedial lessons that

were present as it

all day? Let’s go camping at the wetlands

as she bit down on her fork.

quite sure what the term ‘camping’ meant as she had never been exposed

means going out

confused. “But we have a house?

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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