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

cheerfully answered,

studied her artwork. Her art skills

dynamic as Lilly’s artwork, but

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

button and started, “My cousin and I drew these,

in response. “You two draw

to ask Hannah and joyfully gave him the go-ahead after getting

soon had both photos posted on his social

read well, but the light in her eyes grew brighter when she was

what being praised is

and tells me I do a good

can still get attention even if

at Lilly as she

girl who schemes and is here to rob me of

like that at

no one willing to play with her that afternoon,

now armed with small buckets and catching fish

turned away

without seeing her daughter. That was why she blindly wandered about

wasn’t completely enclosed. Certain areas were surrounded by high walls while others were surrounded by the lake as its

manor and the back mountain were only separated by iron

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

My daughter is a good girl. What if she becomes a rebellious child

from the top of

was catching fish with Hannah when she

on the other side of the

around.

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

Hannah’s hand and ran back inside with the buckets. “Hurry up, there’s a monster

to mind the image of

off into the safety of the

a loss

it’s because

she entered the Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly

was

livid. As her aunt,

**

Josh returned from

Crawford sons were present as

being home all day? Let’s go camping at

tilted her questioningly as she bit down on

sure what the term ‘camping’ meant as she had

grinned and explained, “Camping means going out into

was confused. “But we have a house?

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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