A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1038

Zoe felt as if her heart was stabbed just then too.

She had always been convinced that Jay never loved her, that Jay was only being nice to her to win points with the Levines so that he could continue to live with them in wealth and glamor.

She never thought that Jay’s obedience came from his desire to stay with her, even though he was always so withdrawn and aloof.

Naturally, she had even less reason to expect that Jay had been rejecting her because he believed they were biologically related.

And he never told her… because he was worried it would hurt her?

hate him than accept that

I was adopted and lacking in status to marry her. That’s why I

chest as she imagined

he staring at those papers, hiding in a quiet corner and sobbing

back then was

could tell Zoe that we were blood related, because I myself took it so hard it almost destroyed me. I

so all I told her was that I never loved her-that I was just being nice to her to earn the family’s favor, that I feel

I did the

in fear that she would lose control and start bawling in front of

‘Jay Parker, you fool.’