Bound Hearts: My Vows to My Disabled Spouse

Do You Really Consider Me As Your Wife

He said in a resigned tone, "I know it's hard for you to believe but trust me, I'm not interested in Corrie."

Elyse asked calmly, "You are not interested in her? What's your relationship with her, then? What transpired between the two of you in the past? When do you intend on explaining everything to me?"

Jayden was wearied by her questions. He asked, "Why do you bug with too many questions? You are my wife. I'll always protect and take good care of you. Is that not what matters?"

Deep inhalation couldn't suppress the emotions that surged in Elyse's heart. She thumped the back of the sofa so hard as she tried to vent her anger.

"Jayden, do you really consider me your wife?" she asked resignedly.

He gave a big nod. "Indeed, you are my wife."

He was certain the rest of his life would be spent with her as his wife.

"You regard me as your wife, yet you keep me in the dark? You make it difficult for me to connect

with you. You make me feel so distant even when we're together."

His calm eyes saddened her all the more. Her legs grew weak and she squatted.

She asked as she held her knees, "Jayden, you have secrets you are hiding from me. You don't consider me your wife as you claim. If you did, you wouldn't have built walls around yourself." For a second, Jayden was flustered. Did she know his secrets?

Then he rebuted himself.

Elyse wouldn't have asked him the way she did if she knew about his secrets.

Her sixth sense was right, he did have secrets he had kept hidden from her. Did she sense something was wrong?

His emotions towards her were strong but he was unwilling to disclose his secrets now. With a flat tone, he replied, "I'm not hiding anything from you. You are the best thing that happened to me and I'm lucky to have you as my wife."Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

Elyse would have been moved by those words in the past, but certainly not in the present time.

She was very indifferent to his words. She thought she'd been given the runaround.

In her view, Jayden ignored her uneasiness. It would be her fault if she made a mountain out of this molehill.

Tears welled up in her eyes as Elyse looked at him...

He didn't love her so much as to let her into his life.

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At that point, she understood why Jayden was regarded as cruel by his employees and business associates.

He was not only cruel to his enemies and competitors, but to her as well.

She kept on crying, and that made Jayden frown. He pulled her closer to himself and comforted

her softly. "Shed tears no more. This will not happen again, I promise."

Elyse had something to say, but felt it was pointless saying it.

He didn't know what she wanted from him as his wife. He only did and gave what he felt was good for her.

Jayden couldn't bear it, as he tried to be patient and to comfort her yet she kept crying.

"Elyse, am 1 too tolerant? Don't push your luck. Who do you think you are?"

Elyse tried to hold back her tears as a tear dropped on Jayden's pants. She was frustrated. "Who

do I think I am? For heaven's sake, you just said I'm your wife. Does it make sense to question my identity2"

Jayden was left dumbfounded.

He had recklessly made that statement. He shouldn't have said those words to her. He was

remorseful, so he gently patted her back.

It took Elyse quite some time to calm down.

She straightened up and looked at Jayden with sadness in her eyes.

Jayden absorbed her gaze in silence. He gently ran his rough fingers down her hair when their eyes met occasionally.

"Are you alright now? You've calmed down?" Jayden asked hesitantly.

Elyse's heart flooded with mixed emotions. She had earlier contemplated different various reasons

why Jayden acted the way he did, considering the family he came from and the influence of his parents on him.

She had to be realistic. She found a plausible justification for his

caution.

She couldn't believe she had avoided facing reality the whole time.

"Yes, I'm fine now," she replied him.

Jayden was relieved, "Your temper worsened lately, You fight me over trivial matters at any slightest provocation. Is this how we will live in the future, ignoring each other for a long time when we argue?"

Elyse retorted, "Why would I stay angry at you for a long time if you don't provoke me?"