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.”

as Jay spoke, he was watching as she bawled like an idiot

Forget it?!

could not refuse

she groaned in misery,

said, as if he was not

she asked, “Don’t you love

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

all her courage just

Jay’s response was

even when I was a child. I’m living under someone else’s charity–all I can do

a child? He was living under someone

herself ever since she was

her, and all his kindness toward

laughed through her tears, finding

as she

could she ever expect anything from

about Jay and Mandy, and she nonchalantly sat through the fashion gala. When the hosts asked her to go onstage, she joked around and flashed her dazzling smile

was midnight when the gala ended, and there