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

answered,

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

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

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

the voice record button and started, “My

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

gave him the go-ahead

both photos posted on

in her eyes grew brighter when she was

what being praised

tells

still get attention

as she

and Mommy say Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is

not like that

and no one willing to play with her that afternoon,

were now armed with small buckets and catching fish in a shallow pond in

earlier but was once again turned away before

to leave without seeing her daughter. That was why she

completely enclosed. Certain areas were surrounded by high walls while others were surrounded by the lake as its natural

only separated by iron railings that integrated themselves with

through the iron railing that Winona noticed her

her discomfited. My daughter is a good girl. What if

Winona called out from the top of her lungs.

Hannah

the woman on the other

to look around. “Huh? Is that Mommy’s

“No, you

hand and ran back inside with the buckets.

the image of the ‘person’

off into the safety of the manor without looking

a loss for

course, it’s

since she entered the Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly criticized by everyone

she was leading Hannah

As her aunt, she absolutely

**

returned from their remedial lessons

Crawford sons were present as it

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

down on her fork. “What

meant as she had

“Camping means going out into the wild and

have a house? Is it

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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