Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 3 Lilly’s Eight Uncles To The Rescue!

Everything happened so fast that the Hatchers had no time to react.

By the time Stephen rushed out, he saw Anthony preparing to get into his car and drive off. However, he had not been in time to see Gilbert brushing the snow off Lilly and picking her up from where she had been kneeling by the gate.

“My goodness! It’s Mr. Anthony Crawford!” Stephen plastered a bright smile onto his face and greeted the other cheerfully. “What brings you here? It’s an honor to have you visiting our humble abode!”

By then, Richard, Paula, and some of the Hatcher servants had hurried out to join Stephen as well, their faces wreathed in smiles of welcome.

When they saw Anthony’s stern, aloof countenance, they became even more fawning and obsequious.

Anthony Crawford was the current head of the Crawford family’s business empire and the CEO of Crawford Holdings!

The Crawford family was one of Clodston’s four influential families; everyone wanted to butter them up and curry favor.

A true aristocratic family like this with old money and such deep ties to Clodston was rare. The Crawfords were an elusive, mysterious entity; they kept themselves out of the limelight. The only thing anyone in Clodston knew for sure was that the Crawfords had eight sons, but even then, few had even set eyes on them.

Anthony was occasionally featured in the headlines of the financial news, which was why the Hatchers had recognized him.

“Mr. Crawford, please come in! It’s freezing out here. We’d love to have you stay a little while if you don’t mind such humble surroundings,” Richard said enthusiastically.

“Yes, yes, please do come in and have something hot!” Stephen chimed in, smiling.

Now that they were in the presence of a truly distinguished person, all the Hatchers could not help trying to ingratiate themselves with him.

The Ador Hatcher Corporation was in dire straits; for the Hatcher family, this was a catastrophe.

However, just a word from Anthony would revive their flagging fortunes!

If luck favored them, they might even become one of Clodston’s top ten influential families…

Anthony’s face betrayed no hint of expression; instead, he studied Stephen with keen eyes.

Was this Lilly’s father?

Still without expression, Anthony declined Richard’s offer coolly and enigmatically. “Very well, Mr. Hatcher and family.”

Without another word, he got into his car and drove off.

The Hatchers stood there, confused and dazed, watching him leave.

Paula was the first to speak. “Mr. Crawford said very well… Does that mean he’s intending to help us?”

Richard frowned. “Given his expression, I don’t think he meant anything complimentary.”

Stephen ordered the servants to enlighten him about what had happened earlier.

black

he was thunderstruck. Suddenly, everything became

knowledge that the Crawfords had eight sons and a daughter. However, the daughter’s health

had rescued four years ago was the Crawford family’s one and only precious

family felt their hearts sinking.

“So Jean was the Crawfords’ daughter… hurry, we

Lilly to kneel in the

they would have treated her like

well; when he recalled how he had disciplined Lilly so harshly, he

going to get her back? Do you think we

brow looked like a wrinkled prune. After a long moment of consideration, he said, “Well, regardless, we’re still Lilly’s blood relations. We’re her grandparents, after all! The Crawfords can’t deny that, no

they had wanted to do was to teach Lilly

Stephen had let his temper get the better of him and had disciplined her more severely than he

do was to have a satisfactory explanation for everything. Once that was settled,

…

rescuing Lilly, the Crawfords

hitherto vacant VIP suite in South Town’s best hospital was now

to raise their voices. The atmosphere was extremely tense, punctuated by the

the help of his

time, then gently told his

been whisked off to the emergency room as soon as they reached

emergency room, Gilbert examined Lilly’s bruised body with shaking

bones were the worst thing that could happen in cases of severe frostbite. A more detailed examination revealed that Lily had been badly beaten; in fact, her arms, ribs, and shins

Some of the areas were so severely

was only three or four years old, and she had been made to undergo

Gilbert’s eyes. Leaning down, he murmured, “Lilly, this is your Uncle Gilbert. Can you hear me? If you can,

very light and warm all over. It was the first time she

ear that

this

hard to open her eyes, but she was unable to

talking to her as well, but she

…

Lilly was out of danger, and the doctors all

girl was wheeled into a hospital room, IV tubes plastered all

Anthony the report from Lilly’s

fine, upstanding bunch, these Hatchers! They even had the nerve to lay hands on

frosty voice, he replied, “The Hatcher family’s business goods are under suspicion of being contraband. The company

“Help them? They can count themselves lucky if I

gentleman was so enraged that he wanted to

worry, Dad,” Anthony answered. “They won’t

lip and fell silent. After a while, he murmured, “Then