Bound by love: Marrying my Disabled Husband

Chapter 64:

Upon learning that Mabel had been withholding information, Lanny hung up and stormed to meet her with a frown.

At that moment, Mabel looked like a shadow, staring at nothing in particular. Glenda was beside her, wailing with tears streaming down her face.noveldrama

“How could you have acted so stupid, Mabel? What’s there to like about Theo? If only you could be open-minded for a moment, you’d see just how mistaken you are about him,” Lanny scolded, his face dark.

Mabel, still with a faint mark on her neck, had done everything to get her parents’ support to marry Theo. Clearing her throat weakly, she pleaded, “Mom, you’ve got to understand that my heart is with Theo. There’s no way for me to be happy without him.”

Just then, Lanny entered the room, his face stern. Approaching Mabel, he asked coldly, “Tell me exactly what happened between you and Theo before you got into bed with him.”

Stunned, Mabel swallowed hard, nervousness spreading across her face. Her father had asked a question she hadn’t expected. “Nothing happened, Dad. Besides, you shouldn’t be asking me such questions when I’m feeling quite sad right now,” she replied feebly.

Scoffing, Lanny retorted sarcastically, “You’re quite sad right now? Why on earth would you be sad after you got what you wanted? Hey, are you really on the hook for millions to compensate for some red wine?”

Shocked that the truth was on the verge of being uncovered, Mabel cringed and looked visibly distressed. Glenda stopped crying momentarily, her face showing confusion. “Who do you owe millions to? How is that even possible?”

Feeling that her charade was up, Mabel narrated everything that had happened to her parents. Seeking to deepen her relationship with Theo, she had contacted him and arranged to meet. After meeting up, she had convinced Theo to take her to a bar by pretending she had never been to one. However, upon arrival, she accidentally knocked over several expensive wine bottles, creating a dilemma.

To save her from this, Theo had paid for the damaged wine without asking her to return the money. Believing he had acted out of goodness, she thought he was the ideal lover she had always wanted. Therefore, she had offered to repay him by sleeping with him, and since he didn’t refuse, they ended up having sex.

Afterward, Mabel realized she hadn’t achieved what she wanted, feeling the pain of the loss she had incurred.

Trembling, Mabel asked Lanny, “You can’t possibly tell me that you’re unaffected by the fact that the person I lost my virginity to isn’t my husband, right? Come on, Dad, I want nothing more than to be Theo’s wife. Besides, just imagine all the benefits that I will bring upon my family by marrying Theo, a son of the Ward family, which is one of the most influential and richest families in the city.”

Hearing this, Lanny couldn’t help but shake his head in disgust. Mabel, spoiled as she was, had acted in such a misguided way without even sparing a moment to consider what she was getting into. What’s more, she was still dreaming of becoming Theo’s wife.

Despite how cunning and greedy Lanny was, he knew that it was going to be near impossible for Mabel to marry into the Ward family. When Elyse and Theo had been on the verge of getting married, the Ward family resisted without an iota of shame. If Mabel, who was arrogant and less appealing than Elyse, knocked on their door, they would boot her away without hesitation.

“But then, even if Mabel successfully got Theo to marry her, she would suffer a fate worse than Elyse,” fumed Lanny. “Just who the hell do you think you are? How can you get so delusional to the point that you’ve convinced yourself that Theo is willing to marry you? Shouldn’t you have figured out by now that if he planned to take you seriously, he wouldn’t have slept with you, his ex-fiance’s sister? For him to treat Elyse so poorly despite having a bit of love for her, how do you think he’s going to treat you, a girl he doesn’t even have an iota of feeling for?”

After a brief pause, he added, “Yet here you are, trying to use the fact that he took your virginity to blackmail him. Do you think he attaches any importance to getting a woman in bed with him? He’s well aware that there are a lot of women who would sleep with him without blinking an eye. Do you think he takes you as any different from those loose women?”

Hearing this, Mabel bit her lip and clenched her teeth in anger. In all but words, her dad had just called her a loose woman.

“Why are you saying all these hurtful words to me instead of supporting me, Dad? Have you forgotten that I’m your daughter? I need—” Without allowing her to finish her words, Lanny interrupted firmly, “It’s because you’re my daughter that I’m refusing to sugarcoat how stupid you’ve been. Wake up to reality and know that Theo doesn’t love you in the slightest.”

Glenda placed a hand on Lanny’s shoulder and tried to calm him down, saying, “Go gentle on our daughter, Honey. She deserves a break.”

“Go gentle on her? You do know that you’re the root cause of this. This girl wouldn’t have acted the way she did if only you had brought her up to not become a spoiled and entitled individual,” Lanny retorted, shaking his head in anger. Pointing an index finger at Mabel’s nose, he continued, “Have you any idea what Theo said? He informed us that we have to pay him what he used to cover your debt before he can agree to talk to us. The only reason he slept with you was because of the millions that he had spent. To him, you were just another woman that graced his bed.”

Refusing to accept this as the truth, Mabel said through gritted teeth, “Then just do what he wants. Pay him the money, and then I can start to discuss marriage with him.”

“You make it sound so easy. Can you pay back the several million dollars?” Lanny asked with a sneer.

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