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 light up when

answered, “It’s

brow as he studied her artwork. Her art skills

might not be as dynamic as Lilly’s

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

record button and started, “My

“You two draw well! Do you

joyfully gave

both photos posted on his social

well, but the light in her eyes grew

being praised is

tells me I

attention even if I don’t

Lilly as she thought about

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

like

to play with her that afternoon,

now armed with small buckets and catching fish in

turned away

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

enclosed. Certain areas were surrounded by high walls

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

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

left her discomfited. My daughter is a good girl. What if she becomes a rebellious child after hanging around

called out from the top of her lungs. “Over

catching fish with Hannah when she suddenly heard Winona’s

the woman on

began to look around.

her ears. “No, you didn’t hear a

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

to mind the image of the

sprinted off into the safety of the manor without looking

a loss for

course, it’s because of

Hannah had

she was

her aunt, she absolutely despised the

**

and Josh returned from their

present as it was a

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

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

sure what the term ‘camping’ meant as she had

means going out into the

was confused. “But we have a house? Is

Zachary snickered. “You bumpkin!”

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