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."

father didn't tell me to take care of you before he died? You know how upstanding I am, and how hard it was to convince myself to accept you! It was hard for me to set

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

Parker! Are you really giving up on your family because of

has nothing to do with her. I just didn't want

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

need anyone meddling in my personal life."

never seen Jay act this cold,

being nice to Jay and was earnest about it, treating him like they were actual siblings as

Shouldn't Jay be grateful?

enemies of her mother,

the confrontation just then, she said, "Uncle Jay, you should try to understand my mother's perspective.

ever cross her mind that Zoe was too?!" Jay retorted,

suffer for it?!"

being too harsh on her?!" Nancy bellowed at him. "You thought I was wrong from the start! That I should forgive her; that

deserve to hate anyone, but not Zoe," Jay argued, not backing down at all. "You're the one who raised her, and she loved you as much as you had