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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.

the Crawfords had shown up en masse at the Hatcher Mansion and taken Lilly away, and that a man in black had stripped off his coat and wrapped it around her, cradling her in his

was thunderstruck. Suddenly, everything became terrifyingly

was common knowledge that the Crawfords had eight sons and a daughter. However, the daughter’s health was frail, and she had never

mean that the woman he had rescued four years ago was the Crawford

their hearts sinking. How they bitterly

trembled. “So Jean was the Crawfords’ daughter… hurry,

would never have forced Lilly to kneel in the snow if they had

fact, they would have treated her like

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

get her back? Do you think we can

blood relations. We’re her grandparents, after all! The Crawfords can’t deny that, no

to do was to teach

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

do was to have a satisfactory explanation for everything. Once that was settled, they would be able to

…

Lilly, the Crawfords went straight to the

in South Town’s best hospital was now a hive of frantic

atmosphere was extremely tense, punctuated by the sounds

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

glanced at the time, then gently told his father, “Dad,

had immediately been whisked off to the emergency room as soon as they reached the hospital. Gilbert had

the emergency room, Gilbert examined Lilly’s bruised

frostbite. A more detailed examination revealed that Lily had been badly beaten; in fact, her arms, ribs, and shins

of the areas were so severely

or four years old, and she had been made to undergo such

“Lilly, this is your Uncle Gilbert. Can you hear me? If you can, please hang in there. You’ll make

body feeling very light and warm all over. It was the first time she had ever

voice by her ear that constantly murmured, “Lilly…Lilly dear…little Tulip…Can you see me?

this

very hard to open her eyes, but she was unable

talking to her as well,

…

before Lilly was out of danger, and the doctors all felt this was

wheeled into a hospital room, IV tubes

report from

fine, upstanding bunch, these Hatchers! They even

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 some point of connection

“Help them? They can count themselves lucky if I

was so enraged that he wanted to tear the

Dad,” Anthony answered. “They

and fell silent. After a while, he murmured,