A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 785

Cora was surprised by the question posed by her mother to her uncle.

What relationship was she talking about?

It didn't sound like Nancy was referring to their past familial bond...

Cora did a double take at the thought.

No way! Was Jay in love with Zoe?!

"That's my personal life. You need not meddle," Jay retorted coolly.

"I'm your sister, Jay!" Nancy was livid. "Everyone else in the family is gone, and there's just a few of us left. If we don't stick with each other, we’ll scatter."

"Sticking together isn't dependent on meddling with each other's lives. Caring is plenty enough."

of you before he died? You know how upstanding I am, and

fortune," Jay replied determinedly. "I won't show up ever again

of Zoe York?!" Nancy snapped, attributing all of

just didn't

know very well what you're thinking, but I won't argue with you right now. But I'll make it very clear, I won't accept you marrying Zoe! You can have any other woman you want, even someone from modest roots-l’d even sponsor your wedding lavishly

anyone meddling in my

seen Jay

being nice to Jay and was earnest about it, treating him like they were actual siblings as if Jay wasn't

Shouldn't Jay be grateful?

that willing to make enemies of her mother, all

you should

did it ever cross her mind that Zoe was too?!" Jay retorted, starting to lose himself a little. "Was she

suffer for it?!"

her?!" Nancy bellowed at him. "You thought I was wrong

Zoe," Jay argued, not backing down at all. "You're the one who raised her, and she loved you as much as you had loved her. Did it