A Life Debt Repaid

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 feeling any sympathy, and he finished flatly,

Forget it?!

could not

crushed, and she groaned in

Jay said, as if he was not responsible for

she asked,

held so much hope even as she breathed those words, her eyes

genuinely mustered all her courage

was cold

a child. I’m living under someone else’s charity–all

he was a child? He was living

she had been lying to herself ever since

her, and all his kindness toward

tears, finding herself a joke right

she did

she ever expect anything

talked about Jay and Mandy, and she nonchalantly sat through the fashion gala. When the hosts asked

midnight when the gala ended, and there was an interview