A Life Debt Repaid

A Life Debt Repaid By Cheng Xiaocheng Chapter 144

Chapter 144

Jay did not appear worried at all when he saw Zoe, but instead, he asked flatly, “It’s late. Why aren’t you sleeping? Don’t you have classes tomorrow?”

“What am I to you, Jay?” she asked him then.

She was just seventeen at the time, and she did not understand why she was losing composure like that.

She was very calm, unlike her usual pampered self–she was even willing to believe that Jay just had an accident with that actress.

When she thought about it later on, she decided that she did not throw a tantrum because she did not want Jay to hate her.

But at the time, Jay’s answer was nonchalant and carried no hesitation. “My niece.”

“But, last night… Zoe murmured.

“Last night?” Jay chuckled, his eyes showing no concern at all. “I was just drunk.”

“No, you weren’t!” Zoe cried–she knew Jay could not hold his liquor, which was why he always avoided getting drunk!

“Fine, I wasn’t. I didn’t want to take advantage of you, but I’m 22 and an adult–I have a hard time refusing any woman throwing themselves in my arms.”

spoke, he was watching as she bawled like an idiot without

Forget it?!

not

groaned in

as if he was not responsible

so, she asked, “Don’t you love

even as she breathed those words,

her courage just to ask

was cold and

don’t. Not even when I was a child. I’m living under someone else’s charity–all I

when he was a child?

had been lying to herself

loved her, and all his kindness toward her

finding herself a joke right

as she did

ever

as everyone around her talked about Jay and Mandy, and she nonchalantly sat through the fashion gala. When the hosts asked her to go onstage, she joked

midnight when the gala ended, and there was an interview session

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