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?

help but light up when

cheerfully answered, “It’s

a brow as he studied her artwork. Her art skills weren’t bad in the

not be as dynamic as Lilly’s artwork, but

of both hers and

the voice record button and started, “My

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

to ask Hannah and joyfully gave him the go-ahead

photos posted

well, but the light in her eyes

being

Mommy praises me and tells

still get attention even if I don’t

looked at Lilly as she thought

Mommy say Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is

like that

play with her that afternoon, she went seeking out

buckets and catching fish in a shallow pond in

earlier but was once again turned away before she had

her daughter. That

areas were surrounded by high walls while others were surrounded by the lake as its natural

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

that Winona noticed her daughter from a distance, and found her playing with

a good girl. What if she

the top of her

was catching fish with Hannah when she suddenly heard Winona’s

looked up to see the woman on the other

began to look around. “Huh? Is that

covered her ears. “No,

with the

image of the ‘person’ from the

safety of the

a loss for

it’s because of

entered the Crawford household, Hannah had

was leading

livid. As her aunt, she

**

and Josh returned from their remedial

were present

boring being home all day? Let’s go

down on her

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

grinned and explained, “Camping means going out into the wild and living

confused. “But we have

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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