The Bound Between Us

Chapter 345

It wasn’t the first time someone had remarked on the striking resemblance between Pattie and her adoptive parents, Anastasia and Herman.

Anastasia was always careful to maintain Pattie’s self-esteem and avoided any suggestions that she was adopted. She didn’t want Pattie to feel less loved or out of place. Gently touching Pattie’s cheek, Anastasia would often say, “It’s not about blood. It’s about family. You are meant to be our daughter, Pattie.”

Her words were ambiguous enough to avoid direct mention of adoption, yet intimate enough to imply a natural bond.

“Say hello to the ladies, Pattie.” Anastasia encouraged.

Pattie waved her little hand, her voice sweet and soft, “Hello, ladies.”

Pattie for her good manners

wish I had a lovely daughter like this.” One of them

man. Where would you get a daughter?”

the right one, I’ll just find one with good looks. I can have

chatted, their banter filled with a sense of independence and empowerment. They

of the younger women. She herself was a single mother and understood the hardships that came with it. Yet, she admired the young women’s ability to stand on their own

Feiman hurrying towards the back room. Feeling a

seen my mother-in-law?” Anastasia asked Salma.

her since the opening ceremony.” Salma replied, “She greeted me and then she went towards the back

up and said, “Mom, can you look

had nearly fainted earlier. Katelyn had been looking after her, trying to