Bound by love: Marrying my Disabled Husband by Devocean

Chapter 217:

He said in a resigned tone, “I know it’s hard for you to believe, but trust me, I’m not interested in Corrie.” Elyse asked calmly, “You are not interested in her? What’s your relationship with her then? What transpired between the two of you in the past? When do you intend on explaining everything to me?”

Jayden was wearied by her questions. He asked, “Why do you bug with too many questions? You are my wife; I’ll always protect and take good care of you. Is that not what matters?”

Deep inhalation couldn’t suppress the emotions that surged in Elyse’s heart. She thumped the back of the sofa so hard as she tried to vent her anger. “Jayden, do you really consider me your wife?” she asked resignedly.

He gave a big nod. “Indeed, you are my wife.” He was certain the rest of his life would be spent with her as his wife.

“You regard me as your wife, yet you keep me in the dark. You make it difficult for me to connect with you. You make me feel so distant even when we’re together,” his calm eyes saddened her all the more. Her legs grew weak, and she squatted.

She asked as she held her knees, “Jayden, you have secrets you are hiding from me. You don’t consider me your wife as you claim. If you did, you wouldn’t have built walls around yourself.”

For a second, Jayden was flustered. Did she know his secrets? Then he rebutted himself. Elyse wouldn’t have asked him the way she did if she knew about his secrets. Her sixth sense was right; he did have secrets he had kept hidden from her. Did she sense something was wrong?

unwilling to disclose his secrets now. With a flat tone, he replied, “I’m not hiding anything from you. You are the best thing that happened to me, and I’m lucky

those words in the past, but certainly not in the present time. She was very indifferent to his words. She thought she’d been given the runaround. In her view,

her eyes as Elyse looked at him. He didn’t love her so much as to let her

business associates. He was not only cruel to his enemies and competitors but to her as well. She kept on

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had something to say but felt it was pointless saying it. He didn’t know what she wanted from him as his wife. He only did and gave what

and to comfort her, yet she kept crying. “Elyse, am I too tolerant? Don’t push your luck. Who do you

I think I am? For heaven’s sake, you just said I’m your wife. Does it make sense to question

was left dumbfounded. He had recklessly made that statement. He shouldn’t have said those words

straightened

gaze in silence. He gently ran his rough fingers down her hair when their eyes met occasionally. “Are you alright now? You’ve calmed down,” Jayden

Jayden acted the way he did, considering the family he came from and the