Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Chapter 4 Would They Abandon Her Again?

Stephen went around the hospital looking for people, trying to find out what was going on. However, everyone he encountered told him that they did not know what was happening either.

By now, the Hatchers were so cold they were shivering uncontrollably in the icy corridor. The Crawfords would not see them either. It was becoming unbearable to wait there.

Paula was the first to admit defeat. “I’m going to see Debbie…”

Debbie was also warded at this hospital, but she was in the maternity wing.

Stephen and Richard could not stand it any longer either, but they did not want to leave so they had no choice but to keep on waiting in the interminable cold…

Incessant complaints filled their minds. They had no idea, however, that this was only the beginning of their troubles!

…

Lilly could hear the quiet beeping of machines around her. There were also people talking, but very indistinctly.

However, there was one voice in particular that was very clear.

“Lilly…Lilly dear…hey, little Tulip! You have to wake up soon, okay? If you don’t, I’ll…”

Lilly felt as if a small swarm of bees was buzzing beside her ear and chattering to her. It was just a little bit tiresome.

Who was this person talking to her?

Lilly’s eyelids fluttered slightly and she finally opened her eyes, only to see a snowy-white wall right in front of her.

A group of people surrounded her bed. Pursing her lips, she carefully scrutinized them.

Gilbert reacted enthusiastically; he was also the first to speak. “Lilly! You’re awake now! I’m your Uncle Gilbert…”

The rest of the Crawfords did not even dare to breathe; they watched Lilly tensely.

Lilly found herself at a loss. “Uncle Gilbert?”

Her pretty little face was expressionless and wooden. She looked just like a fragile porcelain doll.

It sounded as if she were repeating a foreign phrase.

Hugh’s mouth tightened into a hard line. Lilly was very thin; she was so tiny that the hospital bed seemed very large.

It hurt to see her like that, so much so that it was hard to breathe.

I’m your mother’s brother. My name is Gilbert. You

brow. After a moment, she

She remembered now.

had called Uncle Gilbert’s

ignored her

uncles want

to look for me?” Lilly asked in a thread

“Lilly, I’m your Uncle

here to take you home, Lilly. In the future, no one will dare to bully you or harass

at each of

going to

sure if they would abandon her

her and starve

she was, the Crawfords felt even more tense than

children. One by one, they

two children. Liam, the second

with children; after hesitating for a moment,

his customary inflexible, rather harsh way, his siblings

slightly in embarrassment. By nature, he was a taciturn person and found it

tension in the air was so thick one could cut it with a

caressed her hair. In as gentle a voice as he could

the ceiling in silence for a while before replying, “I don’t

that she didn’t need a proper name; they’d discuss that when her stepmother

had been what Mommy named her. She didn’t have any

dull ache in his heart. How had this child passed her days in the

asked, “Well then, Lilly, can you tell your Uncle

turned her gaze in his direction with an effort, staring at this

so very dark but this man had broken through that darkness like a

trembled slightly and she asked, “Uncle Gilbert…when we go

dumbfounded when they

if she was allowed to

they could muster up a response, Lilly asked again in

four words

she would be starved and

sort of abuse had she endured in

half-starved and inadequately dressed for the

when she awoke in fright, and in summer no one would bother when she was drenched in

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