The Bound Between Us

Chapter 69

Anastasia didn’t stick around Alessia and her husband for too long as she needed to get back to work. She simply gave a gift for the baby, and then took

off.

Anastasia was quite generous this time, however, she was willing to prepare a more expensive gift for the baby.

Because she was the baby’s godmother, it was necessary for her to prepare a gift for the child.

Anastasia hailed a cab to go back to the office. On the way, she couldn’t help but call her mother.

She wanted to clear up some fuzzy images that were floating around in her head.

Salma, who was comforting Cynthia, immediately picked up the call when she saw it was from Anastasia

Salma asked with concern, “Ana, it’s your first day back at work, how’s it going?”

“Mom, I’m good, Anastasia replied cautiously, “I just accompanied a colleague to the hospital for her delivery, and now I’m on my way back to the office. As a token of gratitude, she asked me to be the baby’s godmother.”

chuckled, “That’s a good thing, getting along with coworkers helps you”

the car window, ‘Mom, when my colleague went into

startled Salma on the other end of

changed instantly, and she asked anxiously, “What did you

made Anastasia even

illness before? I remember being pushed into the operation room, and I was holding your hand”

casually replied, “Yes, you were ill, you had an appendectomy a few years back. You were so scared of the pain, you held

was skeptical, “Was

are you under a lot of stress at work,

because there were so many things she couldn’t remember. When she was depressed, the doctor

she felt that she remembered everything, but often felt that she had

the delivery room and the newly born baby, her heart began to ache and she felt

want to ask, Anastasia clutched her chest, barely able to speak,

all the courage she had

never had

understand why she would ask such a

scared both her