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

answered,

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

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

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

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

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

gave

soon had both photos

but the light in her eyes grew

being praised is

Mommy praises me and tells me I

can still get attention even if I don’t

as she

who

like that at

to play with her that afternoon,

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

again turned

was no way she was willing to leave without seeing her daughter.

were surrounded by high walls while others were

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

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

out from the top of her lungs.

fish with Hannah when she suddenly heard Winona’s

on the other side of

around. “Huh? Is

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

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

called to mind the image of the ‘person’ from

the safety of the

at a loss

course, it’s

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

was leading

aunt, she absolutely

**

returned from

present as it was

boring being home all day? Let’s go camping at the

down on her fork.

the term ‘camping’ meant

going out into the wild and

confused. “But we have a

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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