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,

he studied her artwork. Her art

dynamic as Lilly’s artwork, but it

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 and I drew

a voice message in response. “You two

to ask Hannah and joyfully gave him

soon had both photos posted on his social

but the light in her eyes grew

being praised is

Mommy praises me and tells

attention even if

Lilly as

Lilly is a bad girl who schemes and is

not like that at

mother’s company and no one willing to play with her that

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

returned earlier but was once again turned away before she

her daughter. That

high walls while others

the back mountain were only separated by iron railings that integrated themselves

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

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

out from the top of her lungs. “Over

was catching fish with Hannah when she

on the other

around. “Huh? Is

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

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

the image of the ‘person’ from the

off into the safety

a loss for

it’s because

entered the Crawford household, Hannah had been constantly criticized by

was

livid. As her aunt,

**

and Josh returned from their remedial lessons that

Crawford sons were present as it was a

all day? Let’s go camping at

as she bit down on

quite sure what the term ‘camping’ meant as she had never

grinned and explained, “Camping means going out into the wild and

was confused. “But we have

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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