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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.

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

this, he was thunderstruck. Suddenly,

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

rescued four years ago was the Crawford family’s one

family felt their hearts sinking. How

Jean was the Crawfords’ daughter…

Lilly to kneel in the snow if they had

would have treated her like

regretted his actions as well; when he recalled how he had

Do you

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,

was to teach Lilly not to be an irresponsible

the better of him

All they had to do was to have a satisfactory explanation for everything. Once that was settled, they would be able to look forward to a future of

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rescuing Lilly, the Crawfords went straight to the

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

by the sounds of hospital equipment beeping and doctors and nurses hurrying to and

back and forth with the help of his walking stick. “Why are they

the time, then gently told

room as soon as they reached the hospital. Gilbert had gone with her; up until now, neither of them had

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

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

frostbite all over her body. Some of the areas were so severely

four years old, and she had been made

murmured, “Lilly, this is your Uncle Gilbert. Can you

closed, but she had the oddest sensation of her body feeling very light and warm all over. It was the first time she had ever

ear that

this mysterious

tried very hard to open her eyes, but she

could hear this person talking to her as well, but she could not make a sound, no

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out of

into a hospital room,

report from Lilly’s examination. When

growled in fury, “A fine, upstanding bunch, these Hatchers! They even had the nerve

“The Hatcher family’s business goods are under suspicion of being contraband. The company is in pretty desperate straits. Recently they’ve

merely laughed derisively. “Help them? They can count themselves lucky if I don’t

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

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

silent. After a