The Bond Between Us

utinized the man she was set up

is features were damn handsome, flawles

She was between a rock and a hard place if she didn’t c

d been set up with before. After so many blind dates, Anastasia wasn’t

he guy wasn’t a total bum, she’d consider marrying him

ne to marry? If she got married, her mom woul

huckled, “We just met. Don’t you

like sunshine in spring. Anastasia had a thin

er should have filled you in about me. I’m 25, a freelancer, and I sell some jewelry, earning around 10 thousand

ed, “I’m ready to g

was set up with was found by her mom on a dating website. She thought this woul

oo unreliable. Anastasia had seen it

smiled warmly, his voice gentle. “How did the matchmaker

ey told me you work for a listed company, Elysian Technologies You’re a local, and your paren

home, her mom had told her about the guy she wa

on’t own a house, but I have a car. I rent my place, drive a Chevrolet, have

marry me right here and now? I can support myself, and won’t spend your money. We can go dutch. You don’t

fulfill her mom’s wishes. The rest, they would play it by e

ough blind dates, and most of them were doi

d his hand with his forefi

l the paperwork ready for marriage registrati

ar, and the pressure from hom

that I don’t own a house? Be

support, not many people can afford a house before 30. I unde

self was an ordinary person, no background, or specia

, Herman took out his phone and made a call, “Prepare a

ur la

the marriage certificates in her hand, Anastasia belatedly realized how

mirked, “If you’re having secon

ad, and said firmly. “I won’t back out, Mr. Salstrom. You probab

y going their separate ways? Was this woma