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Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Would They Abandon Her Again?

Stephen went around the hospital looking for people, trying to find out what was going on. However, everyone he encountered told him that they did not know what was happening either.

By now, the Hatchers were so cold they were shivering uncontrollably in the icy corridor. The Crawfords would not see them either. It was becoming unbearable to wait there.

Paula was the first to admit defeat. “I’m going to see Debbie…”

Debbie was also warded at this hospital, but she was in the maternity wing.

Stephen and Richard could not stand it any longer either, but they did not want to leave so they had no choice but to keep on waiting in the interminable cold…

Incessant complaints filled their minds. They had no idea, however, that this was only the beginning of their troubles!

…

Lilly could hear the quiet beeping of machines around her. There were also people talking, but very indistinctly.

However, there was one voice in particular that was very clear.

“Lilly…Lilly dear…hey, little Tulip! You have to wake up soon, okay? If you don’t, I’ll…”

Lilly felt as if a small swarm of bees was buzzing beside her ear and chattering to her. It was just a little bit tiresome.

Who was this person talking to her?

Lilly’s eyelids fluttered slightly and she finally opened her eyes, only to see a snowy-white wall right in front of her.

A group of people surrounded her bed. Pursing her lips, she carefully scrutinized them.

Gilbert reacted enthusiastically; he was also the first to speak. “Lilly! You’re awake now! I’m your Uncle Gilbert…”

The rest of the Crawfords did not even dare to breathe; they watched Lilly tensely.

Lilly found herself at a loss. “Uncle Gilbert?”

Her pretty little face was expressionless and wooden. She looked just like a fragile porcelain doll.

It sounded as if she were repeating a foreign phrase.

Hugh’s mouth tightened into a hard line. Lilly was very thin; she was so tiny that the hospital bed seemed very large.

It hurt to see her like that, so much so that it was hard to breathe.

Gilbert spoke more gently. “Lilly, I’m your mother’s brother. My name is Gilbert. You telephoned me earlier, do you remember?”

brow. After a moment, she let out a soft

She remembered now.

had called Uncle Gilbert’s

ignored her

her uncles want

to look for me?” Lilly asked in a

your Uncle Bryson. We’re all here to take you back

here to take you home, Lilly. In the future,

each of the men

going to take her

if they would abandon her again once they

beat her and starve

Crawfords felt even more tense than

children. One by one, they looked at

and had two children.

at interacting with children; after hesitating for a moment, he asked bluntly,

this in his customary inflexible, rather harsh

By nature, he was a taciturn person and found it difficult to say

in the air was so thick one could cut it with a

a voice as he could muster, he asked, “Lilly

for a while before replying, “I don’t have any

her that she didn’t need a proper name; they’d discuss that when her stepmother gave

been what Mommy named her. She didn’t

his heart. How had this child passed her days in the Hatcher household without even

Lilly, can you tell your Uncle Gilbert

an effort, staring

very dark but this man had broken through that darkness like a ray of

asked, “Uncle Gilbert…when we go home, am I…am

Crawfords were dumbfounded

she was

muster up a response, Lilly asked again in a

four words almost made Hugh

afraid she

she endured

was half-starved and inadequately dressed for

would be there with her when she awoke in fright, and in summer no one would bother when she was drenched in

biting his lip until he almost drew blood so he could suppress the tears that threatened to spill down his

so enraged they clenched their fists tightly. However, they did

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