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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.

masse at the Hatcher Mansion and taken Lilly away, and that a man in black had stripped

Stephen heard this, he was thunderstruck.

had eight sons and a daughter. However, the daughter’s health was

had rescued four years ago was the Crawford family’s

the Hatcher family felt their

Crawfords’ daughter… hurry, we need

kneel in the snow if

treated her like a goddess

how

snapped, “How are you going to get her back? Do you think we can walk

we’re still Lilly’s blood relations. We’re

to do was to teach

the better of him and had disciplined her more severely than he should

was to have a satisfactory

…

Lilly, the Crawfords went straight to the

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

raise their voices. The atmosphere was extremely tense, punctuated by the sounds of hospital equipment beeping and doctors and nurses hurrying to

paced back and forth with the help of his walking stick. “Why are they still in there?”

the time, then gently told his father, “Dad, you should

emergency room as soon as they reached the hospital.

emergency room, Gilbert examined Lilly’s bruised body

that could happen in cases of severe frostbite. A more detailed examination

over her body. Some of the areas were so severely frostbitten they would require

or four years old, and she had been made

Leaning down, he murmured, “Lilly, this is your Uncle Gilbert. Can you hear me? If you can, please hang in there. You’ll make it through, I

very light and warm all

by her ear that constantly

this

tried very hard to open her eyes, but she was

talking to her as well, but she could not make

…

took three hours of surgical procedures before Lilly was out of danger, and the doctors all

was wheeled into a hospital room, IV tubes plastered

report from Lilly’s examination. When the Crawfords read it, they were

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

check on the Hatcher family. In a frosty voice, he replied, “The Hatcher family’s business goods are under suspicion of being contraband. The company is in pretty desperate straits. Recently they’ve been trying to find

They can count themselves lucky if I

old gentleman was so enraged that he wanted to tear the entire Hatcher family

Dad,” Anthony answered.

his lower lip and fell silent. After a while, he murmured, “Then how about Jean…what’s happened