Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Pursing her lips, Lilly stared at Cheryl.

Although Cheryl looked nothing like her stepmother, the expression on the girl’s face was all too familiar to Lilly.

That was the trick her stepmother always pulled, and her daddy would turn around and give Lilly a piece of his mind.

Even though Lilly did nothing to deserve any of that!

Lilly was forthright with her answer. “I didn’t push you. You fell on your own.”

Biting her lip, Cheryl wiped her eyes in distress. After giving her eyes a good rub, she said, “Yeah, I know you didn’t mean to. It was my fault…”

Lilly pressed her lips together.

Other children might be dumbfounded in Lilly’s shoes, not understanding what was going on.

However, Lilly had been in this position far too many times.

She turned to Bettany and uttered, “Granny, I didn’t push her. I was getting up after finishing the food, and Cheryl suddenly fell.”

Bettany picked Lilly up and gave an affirmative answer, “It’s okay. I trust you didn’t push anybody. Maybe somebody can’t tell the difference between intentional and accidental.”

She made a point to look at Cheryl.

Lilly blinked her eyes and fell into thought.

Tina awkwardly jumped in, “The kids were just fooling around. I should have paid closer attention…”

She tried to cover up the whole thing as harmless horsing around between children.

Nevertheless, the Crawfords were not going to let it go.

Bettany callously said, “So? What are you trying to say? Are you expecting our darling to apologize to you?

“Or are you trying to give us the wrong idea about Lilly? What? So we would think she is bad and Cheryl is good? You are foolish to flatter yourself.”

The family ignored their child and took someone else’s child under their wing. Now, they had the nerve to point fingers at Lilly.

Bettany did not hold back with her choice of words.

Color washed off Tina’s complexion… That was not the end of it. The other Crawford family members chimed in to give their two cents.

Anthony curtly snapped, “The last person to frame Lilly is still sitting in jail.”

Hugh had a deadpan look. “It’s the parents’ duty to educate their children. It’ll be too late if you don’t start now.”

Gilbert faintly uttered, “What are you thinking to pull this sort of stunt? Don’t you think it’s embarrassing?”

The Crawford family took turns jumping down Tina’s throat.

the earth could swallow her

Crawfords really got up

Cheryl screwed up by trying too hard to get people to

and only meant well. The Crawford family should not rip

Bettany! I’m sorry, Mr.

streaming down her

fault either way… Don’t be mad,

to stop herself from crying out loud. Yet, she

the look that no one would have the heart

the whole thing did not sit

Cheryl mean

dragging Lilly down in

approached with a plate of salad in

they thought Lilly was so nice to

Tina jumped in, “Oh, Miss Lilly.

her tears and magnanimously uttered, “It’s okay,

dumped the whole plate of salad all over

bracelet twinkled a flashing scarlet glint as the salad was

sure stopped Cheryl

on the details, Lilly said, “Here you go. That’s intentional! The one

can you differentiate between intentional and

it turned out Lilly took everything Bettany said

felt the need to explain

easier to remember things when

Cheryl was dumbfounded.

hem of

salad

it. “How can you do this to

hands, Lilly innocently blinked her eyes. “I was only teaching

The Crawfords were dumbstruck.

bright eyes as she genuinely explained to Cheryl the difference between

they were

had to say that Lilly could not have done

smile on her face. That was a good thing about being kids. They were free

Nothing held them back!

how it should be with the young heiress of

face and skirt. Feeling attacked, Cheryl

Lilly amid the cries, “How can you do this to me? You can’t do this even if

crying for real this time. The girl was sad

She said, “I’m sorry!”

still did not believe she

Cheryl could now distinguish between

Tina could no longer

She said, “It’s okay. You know kids.

before saying, “No, I don’t want to be friends with her tomorrow

a loss

sorry. I’m