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.

Mabel was driving him crazy. I'm worried sick here. You're on

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,

unnoticed until his sudden outburst. "Useless! Always running off and causing trouble!" he fumed, his voice cracking with rage. "I warned her about Theo, but she just had to stir things up. Look where that's landed

Lanny and Glenda argue, Elyse

saw Jayden's playful smile, she asked,

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

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

didn't hate her for it, and she

his intentions shrouded in mystery. Resigned

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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Elyse watched the

the moment of her

on the performers. But Elyse's attention strayed to the rear of the hall, where, in the last

audience, a sudden blow to her side brought her crashing back

to confront her assailant, she came face to face with Rebekah,

of cruelty, her voice dripping with venom. "So happy,

with thinly veiled contempt.

first place, huh?" wall

expression fell, the smile fading from her lips. She knew all too well the futility of trying to project any semblance of

I don't know about first place," Elyse retorted, her voice edged with quiet defiance. "But at least I won't be getting there by performing

eyes narrowed to slits. After all, she had needed to perform twice to remain in the competition after her botched first attempt,

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

her resentment seething through

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