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,

studied her artwork. Her

as dynamic as Lilly’s

took a picture of both hers and Hannah’s drawings before sending

voice record button and started, “My cousin and I drew

two draw well! Do you mind

and joyfully gave him the go-ahead after getting Hannah’s

photos posted

well, but the light in her eyes grew brighter when she

being praised

tells me I

can still get attention

at Lilly as she

Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is

not like that at

play with her that afternoon,

with small buckets and catching fish in a shallow pond in

returned earlier but was once again turned away before

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

completely enclosed. Certain areas were surrounded by high walls while others

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

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

her discomfited. My daughter is a good girl. What if she becomes a rebellious child after

Winona called out from the top of

fish with Hannah

the woman on the

look around.

ears. “No, you

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

the image of the ‘person’ from the night

the safety

was at a loss for

it’s because

the Crawford household, Hannah

she was leading Hannah

As her aunt, she

**

Drake, and Josh returned from

present as it

Lilly, “Isn’t it boring being home all day? Let’s go camping

her questioningly as she bit down on her fork. “What is camping,

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

explained, “Camping means going out into

we have a

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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