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.

was driving him crazy. I'm worried sick

him. Tell him to let Mabel go," Glenda urged, her voice a mixture of panic and command. Elyse's eyebrows knit together in frustration. "I just spoke with Theo," she countered, her tone edged with skepticism. "I tried to reason with him, but

fumed, his voice cracking with rage. "I warned her about Theo, but she just had to stir things up. Look where that's landed her now. This is your precious daughter,

Lanny and Glenda argue, Elyse

smile,

only broadened, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Oh, I'm

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

Elyse realized he didn't hate her for it, and she

had come and gone, yet Theo had remained silent, his intentions shrouded in mystery.

fellow musicians, all peering out toward the stage in eager anticipation. Amidst the flurry of nervous chatter and the hum of tuning instruments, Elyse anxiously took in the scene

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

the moment of her

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 smile

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

assailant, she came face to face with

mocking sneer twisted her features into a mask of cruelty, her voice dripping with venom. "So happy, are we?" she

over Elyse with thinly

first place, huh?" wall

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

I don't know about first place," Elyse retorted, her voice edged with quiet defiance. "But at least I

needed to perform twice to remain in the competition after

out for good. So if you want to keep your spot, you better practice up. Now isn't the

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