A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 323

Zoe had always believed herself to be fortunate.

Aside from a small plight in her love life, everything else was smooth sailing for her.

Never could she have expected her world to fall apart like this.How did a legitimate heiress like her turn into a mistress' daughter?! "We have nothing to do with each other now, Zoe York."

Nancy was being frighteningly cold.

Seeing Zoe being so miserable did make her feel just a tinge of remorse, but the thought that her own daughter had suffered so much because of Zoe only made her feel even more disgusted.She hated Zoe to the bone now for taking everything that was her biological daughter's! "Mom..." Zoe called out to her nonetheless.

"Don't call me that!"* Nancy shrieked with visible disgust.

"I'm sorry," Zoe apologized—because she had stolen someone else's happiness.

don't need your apologies," Nancy said

and that would be the best repayment for all the kindness I've wasted on

not want to stay in that room a second longer or look at Zoe for another moment.She felt no sentiment at all, and she was frighteningly

she turned toward

stop herself, she called

a while after

call out to him, however,

Zoe asked self-deprecatingly, her tears falling

it turned out that they were not even her

"What is it?"

turned around, his

since he had always been cold to her since she was

is what abandonment felt like—it was like the world was ending for her.Nonetheless, she did her