Bound by love: Marrying my Disabled Husband by Devocean

Chapter 1771:

Corrie’s protest came out weakly. “I haven’t sacrificed my conscience!”

Elyse’s voice was measured but relentless. “Then explain your tears. Why this emotional response? Are you crying because, despite all your schemes, Brook doesn’t love you and refuses to marry you? Corrie, what do you truly desire at your core?”

Corrie found herself speechless under such incisive questioning.

The sudden ring of her phone shattered the tense silence.

She answered with trembling hands, only to be met with her mother’s furious voice. “You useless fool! You can’t even secure a man. His family has arrived to cancel the engagement—you’ve humiliated me completely!”

The ground seemed to tilt beneath Corrie’s feet. Everything she had fought for slipped through her fingers, spiraling beyond her desperate grasp.

“Hurry home immediately,” her mother snapped. “We’ll go see Brook together!”

tightened before she hurled it to the ground. Screaming at Brook, she demanded,

I? You lash out without

need that!” Corrie shrieked. “You are the

any longer, cut in. “Corrie, you’re delusional. You act like Brook belongs to you,

sob before dissolving

minutes crawled by before the bodyguards returned with good news. They had found Jennie’s missing friend. Though shaken

feeling a weight lift off her chest. Brook turned to her and asked softly, “Now that your friend is safe,

steady gaze. “Do you really love me? I’m

softened. “Love doesn’t check bank

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regret your

trouble over something that hasn’t even happened yet,”

you been reading

reading,” Brook replied, holding her hand. “It’s what