A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1231

Every guest was staring at Cordy, convinced that she was going to declare her love for Jay because her affection for him was all too visible.

And given Zoe’s personality, she would want nothing less than to announce it to the whole world.

And yet, when she began, she said, “There are two people I want to thank. The first is Clara Gooding, my mother.”

Clara was sitting below stage, her body obviously stiffening when Zoe suddenly mentioned her.

She was holding Yelena in her arms after she got off the stage.

“Yes, she’s my mother,” Zoe said. “But I never called her that, because there was a time I hated her. If not for her, I wouldn’t have gone through the worst moment of my life-1 mean, who would’ve thought that an heiress of the great Levine family would turn out to be just a maid’s daughter?”

Her words were calm, but everyone could empathize with her pain and despair of the time.

I really wanted to disown

red, her eyes welling with

certainly knew that Zoe held considerable grievances against her, but

“If I had done that back then. I’d regret it for the

the one who had been regretting her actions all

heat of the moment

best mother in this world who has given me all her love in a way that no one else could accept,” Zoe said, looking

time Zoe called her that, and Clara’s tears kept

her cry, Yelena quickly used her little hands to dry her tears. “It’s alright, Grandma. I’m here, and I

had she done to deserve a

our separate lives. I know you’ve been quietly sacrificing yourself for all our sake, telling me to rest while Yelena was sick while you stayed overnight with her, saying that you’re not tired even

obliged to do, to atone for the years I was left with the Levines,” Zoe said, her voice choking

wiped away her tears, offering her silent