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

answered, “It’s

as he studied her artwork. Her

be as dynamic as Lilly’s

and took a picture of both hers and Hannah’s

the voice record button and started,

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

gave him the go-ahead

had both photos posted on

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

being praised

and tells me I do

still get attention even if I

at Lilly as

is a bad girl who schemes and is here to

like that

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

buckets and catching fish in a shallow pond in the

turned away before she had even set foot

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

by high walls while others were surrounded by the lake

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

the iron railing that Winona noticed her

girl. What

called out from the top of her

with Hannah when she suddenly heard

woman on the other side

around. “Huh? Is that Mommy’s

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

and ran back inside with the

to mind the image of

off into the safety of the manor

was at a loss

course, it’s because of

Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly

she was leading Hannah

aunt, she absolutely

**

from their remedial

were present as

home all day? Let’s go camping at the

bit down on her fork. “What is camping,

‘camping’ meant as she had never been exposed to

going out into the wild and

“But we have

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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