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?

eyes couldn’t help but

cheerfully answered,

artwork.

as Lilly’s artwork, but it

grandfather’s phone and took a picture of both

started, “My cousin and I drew these, old

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

ask Hannah and joyfully gave him the

photos posted on

her

this what being praised

me and tells me I do a

still get attention even if

Lilly as she thought about

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

not like

no one willing to play with her that

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

again turned away before

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

were surrounded by high walls while

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

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

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

the top of her lungs.

Hannah when she suddenly heard Winona’s

on the other side of the iron

began to look around. “Huh? Is

“No, you didn’t hear

took Hannah’s hand and ran back inside with

image of the ‘person’

the safety of the

at a loss

course, it’s because

since she entered the Crawford household, Hannah had been

she was leading

As her aunt, she

**

and Josh returned from their remedial lessons that

eight Crawford sons were present

“Isn’t it boring being home all

her questioningly as she bit down

meant

going out into the wild and living

“But we have

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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