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?

but light

cheerfully answered, “It’s a

brow as he studied her artwork. Her art

dynamic as Lilly’s artwork, but

used her grandfather’s phone and took a picture of both hers and Hannah’s drawings before sending it to

the voice record button and started, “My cousin

“You two draw well!

ask Hannah and joyfully gave him the

both photos posted on his social

couldn’t read well, but the light in her eyes grew brighter when she was

being

praises me and tells

attention even if I don’t

Lilly as

a bad girl who schemes and

she’s not like that

and no one willing to play with her that afternoon,

armed with small buckets and catching fish in a shallow

earlier but was once again turned away before she

she was 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 by the lake as

only separated by iron railings

Winona noticed her daughter from a distance, and found her

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

Winona called out from the top of her lungs. “Over

catching fish with Hannah when she

up to see the woman on the other side of the iron

to look around.

“No, you didn’t hear

took Hannah’s hand and ran back inside with the buckets.

image of the ‘person’ from the

into the safety of the manor without

a

course, it’s because

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

was leading Hannah

was livid. As her aunt, she

**

returned from their

present as

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

her questioningly as she bit down on her fork. “What is camping,

‘camping’ meant as she had never been

explained, “Camping means going

we have

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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