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.”

bawled like an idiot without feeling

Forget it?!

not refuse any

in misery, “That was my first kiss…”

he was not responsible

she asked, “Don’t you

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

genuinely mustered all her courage just to

response was cold and without hesitation.

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

He was living under someone else’s charity?!

been lying to herself ever since she was a

never loved her, and all his kindness

tears, finding herself a joke right then….

as she did now.

she ever expect anything from Jay?

she listened coolly as everyone around her talked about Jay and Mandy, and she nonchalantly sat through the fashion gala. When the

gala ended, and there was an

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