Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 590 You’ve Done Well, Sean

Sean said quietly, “I was eleven when my mother was pregnant with Cathy. I’ve just started sixth grade.”

That seemed like such a long time ago. Sean could barely remember it.

He could only remember running up and down happily, fetching whatever his mother wanted, going grocery shopping with her as they chatted over whether it would be a little boy or little girl. What they would name the baby if it was a boy, or a girl.

“It was me who came up with the name Cathy too,” Sean said quietly.

He had even prepared a gift for her in secret.

“The day Mom gave birth to Cathy, everyone was so nervous. Dad was rushing around bringing things to the hospital, and I rushed to the hospital first thing after school as well. Cathy came out of the delivery room just as I got there.”

“I was the first to hold her.”

Sean was overjoyed then. His mother had asked him if he would like a younger brother or sister, to which he had said that he was fine with either— but really wanted a little sister just a little more.

Then it turned out to really be a little sister.

“She was like a kitten! She was only this small!” Sean gestured with his hands. “I reached out to touch her face, and she grabbed my finger.”

Sean would never forget the shock and joy he felt the first time his sister grabbed his finger.

Then came the few days of Dad running to and from the hospital, delivering meals to Mom.

His mother had gotten pregnant at an older age, and there had been complications post-birth that required her to be on medicine. Cathy could not be breastfed because of this, and Sean thus learnt how to make her formula.

Another chaotic week passed, and his mother and sister finally returned from the hospital.

“There were lots of relatives over. They all fussed and cooed over my sister. Mom talked to them, and Dad was so busy.”

Everyone was so busy.

came she would snatch Cathy out of Sean’s arms, saying that he didn’t know how to

people, his parents chatting and laughing with

himself. A whole half hour passed, and no one even

there, and asked me what I

those fruits. He was

“And then?”

a hand through his fair. “Then Cathy fell sick for the first

it wouldn’t go down. His parents saw that Cathy’s stomach was bulged up like a frog’s. It had only been a week, and she had begun crying all day and night without stopping aside from the occasional

well to breastmilk, which meant she couldn’t

had a taste of breastmilk. So she would cry, which made the bloating

bellies were soft and floppy, but his sister’s was

once, and Cathy burst into tears. She cried so hard she was practically screaming, her

Mom got

night, and Cathy cried the entire

expression turned

me like she was looking at an enemy, shouting at me asking why I

too. His sister was only so young, and she had indeed

Cathy was truly getting worse by the second. Everyone rushed her to the hospital, and she was hooked up to an

with something when he got home, but his mother

you should go to bed and

this either, as long as he didn’t cause any

would make round trips to the hospital every couple of days. Sean was truly

on for not boiling the water well enough, or not washing the bottles cleanly enough. One time Cathy was throwing up

day after day. Eventually, he

sister, but had they

her mouth, unsure how to comfort

of forcing someone to confess where you don’t allow

where they didn’t allow their participants to sleep, and the conclusion was bone-chilling— they would lose all sense of logic, and even murder or feast

that would send chills down anyone’s back. Even reading the description