A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 337

Nonetheless, Zoe pulled herself together.

She thought about many people who could help her, but as she scrolled through her contacts, she suddenly found herself unable to call them.

There was John, Cordy, Quinn... even Bob and the rest of his gang.

Forty grand was pocket change to them.

But she refused to call them-to let them know her tragic, impoverished state-and certainly did not want to add to their troubles.

Her fingers hovered over her manager's number for a moment, but she eventually called her manager, throwing aside all her dignity to ask for forty grand.

Linda, however, refused-it was not as if she was reluctant to help, but she had been threatened and forbidden from aiding Zoe.

To make things worse, Linda told Zoe that all her endorsement deals and advertisements she was scheduled to shoot had all been called off. Even the TV series and movies that were already filmed and were in postproduction would now be altered, either with a new actress taking her place or having her face altered with Al tech. At the same time, everything else that had already been aired or airing would be taken off the shelves.

She was being canceled to the last.

who groomed

this was showbiz. It was unforgivably pragmatic, and anyone could be knocked off their perch in an instant, while the audience would simply forget about them soon

way, Zoe's showbiz career was dead as a doornail-Linda had no way of helping her, nor did she have the

while and called

was answered too.

why she would call

afterward, even sharing phone numbers. Still, they never spoke much about anything too personal, and it was just some

Levines, James Stuart could help her without being affected at all. Nancy was not that unreasonable that she

was neutral.

went straight to the

not much." James mused. "But I have no reason to

seized Zoe's

impression of a mild elder brother, but it turned out

me that you're not a

not," Zoe answered

before, and I never protested when my grandfather had tried to get us together since I've been putting off marriage for