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?

but

answered,

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

might not be as dynamic as Lilly’s artwork, but it was

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

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

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

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

both photos posted

light in her eyes grew brighter when

being

tells me I do

still get attention even

at Lilly as she

is a bad girl who schemes and is here to

not like

and no one willing to play with her that afternoon, she went seeking out

girls were now armed with small buckets and catching fish

had returned earlier but was once again turned away before she had even set

seeing her

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

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

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

sight left her discomfited. My daughter is a good girl. What if she becomes a

from the top of her lungs. “Over here,

catching fish with Hannah when she suddenly

up to see the woman on the other

look around. “Huh?

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

and ran back inside with the buckets.

mind the image of the ‘person’ from the night

the safety of the manor without

was at a loss

course, it’s because of

the Crawford household, Hannah had

she was leading Hannah

was livid. As her aunt, she

**

and Josh returned from their remedial

were present

home all day? Let’s go camping at

her questioningly as she bit down on

sure what the term ‘camping’ meant as

means going

we have a house?

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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