Bound by love: Marrying my Disabled Husband by Devocean

Chapter 1624:

Hardy yanked a Coke from the fridge, popped the tab, and took a deep, satisfying swig. As he turned, he nearly dropped the can.

Tracy sat there, tears streaming down her face—big, heavy ones that glistened under the kitchen light.

Frowning, Hardy set his drink down and strode over to her. “What’s wrong?”

She hastily wiped at her eyes, forcing a shaky smile. “It’s nothing. Just lost in thought. Feeling a little down.”

Hardy exhaled, the sound a mixture of a sigh and resignation. “I told you, I’ve got your back. You don’t have to carry everything alone.”

Tracy glanced up at him, her fingers still swiping away the last of her tears. “When you fished me out of the ocean, did you ever think I would turn into this much of a headache?” Hardy’s mind drifted back to that day.

He could still see Tracy—clinging to a broken hunk of plastic, barely conscious, her body bobbing with the waves. Even from a distance, he knew she was on the verge of letting go.

been out on a rented skiff, just a guy trying to enjoy a quiet

and left at the mercy of the elements. By some miracle, she had found that

had kept her alive. Surviving

assumed that after staring death in the face and surviving, she was

to become the

but more than that, she had clawed her way out of the darkness that had nearly

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lingered, festered. And in Tracy, it had hardened into a smoldering anger, a hunger

her once, and somehow, that had tethered them together. Now, she felt like a daughter he hadn’t asked for, but one he couldn’t stop worrying about. “You’re a handful,” Hardy admitted with a sigh.

sharp look. “I miss Elyse. And

brow. “Funny, I haven’t heard Elyse say a word about that. What makes you so

our bond.

misses you, why not just