Bound Hearts: My Vows to My Disabled Spouse

Chapter 154 Cody Tucker Showed Up

The tense air in the ward was thick with apprehension.

Mabel's wide-eyed fear was palpable as she beseeched Elyse, "Don't go, Elyse! Please! I'll die if you do!"

Theo, unmoved by their entreaties, kept his eyes shut. "Please leave," he intoned.

Eyes brimming with fierce determination, Elyse turned her frosty gaze on Theo, delivering a chilling ultimatum, "Theo, if you harm Mabel, I swear I won't rest until you pay for it." Her words hung heavy in the air as she took Jayden's hand and strode purposefully from the ward, leaving Theo alone with Mabel.

With Elyse's departure, Mabel's brave facade crumbled, leaving her quivering with fear. "Elyse, please don't go! Help me!" she wailed, her voice laced with desperation.

Theo, seething with annoyance at Mabel's incessant cries, snapped at one of the bodyguards in the ward, "Shut her up!"

The bodyguard swiftly silenced Mabel, stuffing a towel in her mouth, muffling her sobs and turning them into feeble, muffled whimpers.

As Elyse and Jayden walked through the hospital's garden, her footsteps faltered. She couldn't stop herself from glancing back towards the building, consumed by concern for Mabel.

Jayden, keenly perceptive to the unspoken worry gnawing at Elyse, offered a comforting yet resolute observation. "Theo is using Mabel as leverage to keep you tethered to him. He's not letting go."

Elyse shook her head, a look of disbelief etched on her face. "He's clinging onto a fantasy," she said, the scorn in her voice unmistakable. "There's no future for me and him. We don't belong together. Can't he just accept it and move on?"

Jayden, sensing the gravity of the situation, turned to Elyse with a decisive air. "We should head back. He's not going to let her go."

Elyse, her lips pressed into a thin, grim line, nodded in agreement.

The moment they stepped back through the front door of Jayden's home, the phone rang.

Glenda's anxious voice poured through the receiver, her distress palpable. "Elyse, Theo called me.

driving him crazy. I'm worried sick here. You're on good terms with him.

with Theo," she countered, her tone

with rage. "I warned her about Theo, but she just had to stir things up. Look where that's landed her now. This is

and Glenda argue,

playful smile, she asked, "Why are you

only broadened, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Oh, I'm pretty sure Theo wants something from

face twisted into a scowl of annoyance. "Seriously? Don't even suggest that," she shot back, rolling her

hate her

had remained silent, his intentions

backstage at the second round of selection process. The space teemed with fellow musicians, all peering out toward the stage in eager anticipation.

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with anticipation as Elyse watched the piano auditions unfold on stage.

the moment of her own violin

gazes fixed on the performers. But Elyse's attention strayed to the rear of the hall, where, in the last row, she spotted a familiar face-Jayden, his eyes already finding hers, a

soared at the sight of him in the audience, a sudden blow to her side brought

face with Rebekah, a snarl of

of cruelty, her voice dripping with venom. "So happy, are we?" she jeered,

raking over Elyse with thinly

first place, huh?" wall

She knew all too well the futility of trying to project any semblance of joy in the

defiance. "But at least I won't be getting there by performing twice

to remain in the competition

no second chances this round. You get weeded out, you're out for good. So if you want to keep your spot, you better practice

anger boiled over, her resentment seething

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