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 he

cheerfully answered,

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

not be as dynamic as Lilly’s

grandfather’s phone and took a picture of both hers and Hannah’s drawings before sending it to

and started, “My cousin and I drew these,

two draw well! Do

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

both photos

the light in her eyes grew brighter when she

what being praised is

and tells me I

can still get attention even

as

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

not like

and no one willing to play with her that afternoon,

buckets and catching fish in a

again turned away before she had even

was no way she was willing to leave without seeing her daughter. That was why she blindly wandered about outside the Crawford

high walls while others

only separated by iron railings that integrated themselves with the very

Winona noticed her daughter from a

a good girl. What if she

top of her lungs. “Over here,

was catching fish with Hannah when she

looked up to see the woman on the

to look around. “Huh? Is that Mommy’s

covered her ears. “No, you didn’t

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

immediately called to mind the image of the ‘person’

safety of the manor without

was at a

course, it’s

Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly criticized

she was leading Hannah

aunt, she absolutely

**

from their remedial

were present

all day?

her questioningly as she bit down on her

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

and explained, “Camping means going out into

was confused. “But we have a

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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