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?

couldn’t help but light up when

cheerfully answered,

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

as Lilly’s artwork, but it was filled with childlike

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

started, “My cousin and

“You two

ask Hannah and joyfully gave him the

photos posted on

in her eyes grew brighter when she was shown

being praised

me and tells me

can still get attention even

looked at Lilly as she

bad girl who schemes and is here to rob

not like that

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

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

earlier but was once again turned away before she had

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

areas were surrounded by high walls while others were surrounded

were only separated by iron railings that

iron railing that Winona noticed her daughter from a distance, and

girl. What if she becomes a

the top of her lungs.

fish with Hannah when she suddenly heard

up to see the woman on the other

began to look around. “Huh? Is that Mommy’s

ears. “No, you didn’t hear

inside with the

called to mind the image of

off into the safety of

a loss for

it’s because

she entered the Crawford household, Hannah

she was

As her aunt, she

**

and Josh returned from their remedial lessons

present as it

home all day? Let’s go

her questioningly as she bit down on

meant

going out into the wild and living

was confused. “But we have a house?

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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