The Bound Between Us

Chapter 286

At the school gate, Pattie waved goodbye, “See ya, mom and dad.”

Herman seemed a bit reluctant to leave, lingering at the school gate for a while. Anastasia took his hand, laughing and saying, “Let’s go, or else we’ll be late. Look how unwilling you are to part with her. Why don’t you just join her in kindergarten?”

Herman replied, “Our little girl is growing up so fast, don’t you think? Pattie is getting taller and prettier, just like you.”

“They say the child resembles who raises her, so since we’re bringing up Pattie, naturally she’ll start to look like us. Sometimes I even feel that Pattie looks just like

you.”

While chatting, they walked towards their car parked by the roadside. “Well, I almost forgot, one of my colleagues has been acting weird lately. He followed me to the subway station last night.” Anastasia finally remembered to mention this to Herman.

Herman immediately realized the gravity of the situation, “What colleague? Which department? Is it a guy? What’s his name and what’s his purpose?”

so uptight, Anastasia said, “Don’t freak out. His name is Harmon. I think he might be upset because of a failed blind date. He tried online dating on OkCupid, but got scammed a few times. He’s probably not in the right state of mind. He knows I was also on OkCupid, and he keeps calling me a scammer.

away from people like that,” Herman warned her. “You

know.” Anastasia made a promise gesture, “I’ll definitely steer clear

fearful of Harmon and would definitely try

his Chevrolet to hop into the Rolls Royce. Every morning after dropping Anastasia off, he’d switch cars at this intersection, Nelson and the driver would always wait for him

meeting with Mr. Jarod from WOW Corporation in the morning,

schedule was packed.

grunted in response, then pulled out his

heart leap

an excuse to fire him, but give him two months’ extra pay as compensation.”

compensation was out of consideration for Harmon being scammed on his blind dates. The fact that Harmon had feelings for Anastasia