The Bound Between Us

Chapter 887

Herman tried calling Anastasia again. This time, her phone was off.

She never turned off her phone. Ever since she became a mom, unless her

battery died, her phone always stayed on. Even if she was furious with him, she'd

ignore his calls, but she wouldn't just switch the thing off.

He remembered seeing her phone at full charge before she left. It'd barely been

two hours. No way the battery was dead.

A cold dread settled in his gut.

Three unanswered calls later, Herman's worry turned into certainty: something

was wrong.

He called Monica, hoping maybe Anastasia had gone to her. No luck-Monica

hadn't seen her either.

Nelson jogged over, a little out of breath. "Mr. Salstrom, I asked the security at the

gate. They said Mrs. Salstrom left in a taxi, headed north."

"Find out that taxi's license plate. Now," Herman ordered, his voice sharp. "And

get Dailey over here."

But the car had left right from the banquet entrance, just outside the cameras'

reach. None of the guards got the plate number. Tracking her by the taxi was

probably pointless.

Herman quickly tried to locate Anastasia's phone.

Half an hour later, following the last signal, Herman drove out toward the northern

There, in the weeds, he found her phone-smashed

gone.

soon after. "Boss, I checked-nothing from Asher

movement at all."

Asher might come after Anastasia for the chip.

watching Asher for

if it wasn't

had been missing for nearly an hour. A bad feeling

his

pulling traffic cam footage from this road. There's gotta be

intersection," Herman said, gripping the shattered

white. His eyes were cold and

someone

around his throat.

Meanwhile, somewhere far away-

in darkness, blindfolded, wrists and ankles tied. She

hear anything except her own

in, cold and

flickered:

charity

to

gotten into a cab.

a strange drowsiness

over her.

been wrong with

this Asher's doing? Was he after the chip? Or

had taken her. She

tried to

was a

and if

could hear water

cave?

they taken her?

footsteps echoed nearby. Anastasia shrank into

listen.

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