Eight Kickass Uncle Sweet Spoil novel Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Susie looked at the orchard and shouted, “Alex!”

A bird’s cry rang out from within the trees, and a colorful parrot flew toward them and alighted on a nearby branch. But he stopped when he saw Ryan and fluttered back a few feet.

Susie said. “Shhh!” She leaned up to Ryan’s ear and whispered, “Uncle, Alex is afraid of you.”

The little girl’s hands were cupped into a circle around his ear, and her big eyes were soft and endearing Ryan couldn’t help lowering his voice as he looked at the parrot. He said. “Susie, maybe I should call someone to get him? Let’s have one of our bodyguards catch your friend, and we’ll take him back right away.”

Susie frowned and shook her head. “No.”

Then she looked around, afraid the bird would overhear. “Don’t try to trap Alex. Alex is not a bad bird. If you try to trap him, he’ll be scared.” she explained in a whisper.

Ryan wanted to laugh. The entire scene was too adorable. But, forcing himself to take it seriously, he nodded and said, “Okay.”

Susie pressed Ryan’s shoulders and told him, “Stand still, Uncle

Ryan.”

She walked a little further into the orchard and called out for Alex

again.

Alex stood on a branch high above her head, squawking, “Idiots! Idiots!”

Susie said seriously, “Alex, Uncle Ryan is not an idiot.”

Alex: “Stupid dogs! Stupid dogs!”

Susie said firmly, “Uncle Ryan is not a stupid dog, either.”

Ryan, listening from outside the orchard

Susie took a few steps forward before she heard a branch rustling just in front of her. She glanced down…

Only to see a familiar pair of eyes staring back at her!

Terrified, Susie spun around and tried to run, but Stacy grabbed her arm in a viselike grip. “Hi, Susie… You’re finally back,” she hissed.

Susie tried to scream, but Stacy clapped a hand over her mouth. She smiled and said softly, “What’s wrong, Susie? Aren’t you happy to see your stepmom?”

Unaware that Ryan was still waiting just outside the orchard, Stacy gripped Susie’s face and forced her chin up. Still smiling viciously, she said, “Answer me, you stupid girl. I’m still your mother, after all!”

Susie instinctively lifted her hand to shove Stacy away and turned

around to run.

Stacy was a bit surprised. When had the little girl gotten so strong? But she was still able to grab Susie’s arm, and she covered her mouth again. “Susie, you killed the baby in my belly. I was willing to forgive you, but now you’re treating me like this?” Stacy sneered disdainfully.

Susie whimpered and shook her head, unable to say a word.

Stacy had a cruel smirk on her face, a completely different expression from when she used to beat Susie. “Susie says she didn’t push me, huh? But if you hadn’t appeared out of nowhere that day and seared me, how would I have fallen? It’s your fault. Susie. And now your stepmom has no baby, how sad… If your uncles ask, you have to admit that you pushed me. Do you understand?”

Stacy was trying to manipulate her, thinking a young girl like Susie would do whatever an adult told her.

But Susie set her jaw and said nothing, her eyes full of defiance. She hadn’t pushed Stacy, so she didn’t want to admit it.

Stacy knew she didn’t have much time, and she lost her patience.

She hated this stupid little girl. Susie was useless and stubborn, always refusing to cry and refusing to obey what Stacy told her. It was getting

to be very annoying.

Stacy’s face twisted up in an ugly expression, and she said, “Susie, you’

re a very bad girl. Do you know what will happen if you don’t listen?”

No one had been there to witness the incident on the staircase, so it had been Stacy’s word against Susie’s. The Bishop family chose to believe Stacy, but Stacy knew the Murrays would probably believe Susie. And she couldn’t let that happen. She had to maintain a perfect image and find a way to get the attention of her idol, Jonathan.

Stacy once read a story where a preschool teacher beat a child and told the child that he had a magic telescope, allowing him to hear whatever the child said or did. That way, the child was too afraid to tell his parents about the beating.

Stacy’s eyes flashed, and she glared down at Susie with a menacing expression. “Listen, Susie, I want to tell you something. Don’t think that just because you have a few uncles, they can protect you. I have magic powers, and I can find you whenever I want!”