The Bound Between Us

Chapter 573

Julie had been shacking up with Rowan for a few months now, and she thought she had him figured out. But all her little quirks and antics? They didn't get her anywhere. Out of what seemed like a sense of decency, Rowan had picked up some essentials for Julie's

upcoming labor and stuff for the baby, stashing them in the cellar before he took off. The rest was up to fate, leaving Julie to fend for herself.

That very night, the labor pains hit hard. Julie's belly started twisting, and fear gripped her heart like a vice. With zero experience in childbirth and no one around to help, she lay alone on the cellar's cot, biting down hard, enduring. With every wave of pain, she cursed

Joseph, cursed the Salstroms, and damned Anastasia to high heaven.

cellar, her cries unanswered. Rowan, sitting just outside on the ground, listened in. As long as she was still breathing, he wouldn't step in. Julie

the child with no warmth, only a mix of resentment and pain. Frozen with uncertainty, she didn't dare move or even know

of leather shoes came into view. Rowan tensed, looking up to see the man before him, and respectfully called

himself. Asher was the same man who had been calling Rowan, the one behind the fire at the Elysian Technologies factory. Hearing the infant's cries from the cellar, Asher said, "Bring the child to me." "Yes, Mr. Asher," Rowan replied, stepping

to get up and reclaim him, "Give me my son back, where are you taking him?" Outside the cellar, Asher's face twisted into a grimace upon seeing the newborn, his scar stretching grotesquely.

core. I doubt this child can be used as leverage against him." "Who said anything about using a baby as leverage?" Asher scoffed. "Send this child back to the Salstroms." "Send him back?" Rowan was surprised. "Do as I say," Asher dropped the command

of Asher, "Who are you?" Asher, visibly annoyed, fixed a cold gaze on Julie, "I'm the one who had you pulled out of that hole. Without me, you'd still

stepped forward, gripping Julie's chin, "I saved you, and now I'm going to remake you. You'll go back to Herman with a brand new face,