A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 144

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 she bawled like an idiot

Forget it?!

refuse

and she groaned in misery, “That was my first

if he was not responsible

so, she asked, “Don’t you love me?”

as she breathed

all her courage just to ask

response was

a child. I’m living under someone else’s charity–all I can do is pretend to

was a child? He was living

lying to herself ever since she was a

loved her, and all his kindness toward her was a pretense.

tears, finding herself a joke

as she

ever expect anything from Jay?

fashion gala. When the hosts asked her to go onstage,

ended, and

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