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 aside a portion of the family

a cent of the family fortune," Jay replied determinedly. "I won't show up

because of Zoe York?!" Nancy snapped, attributing

her. I just didn't want you

won't accept you marrying Zoe! You can have any other woman you want, even someone

I shall repeat myself: I don't need anyone meddling in my

dumbstruck-she had never seen Jay act this cold, even at

and was earnest about it, treating him like they were

Shouldn't Jay be grateful?

willing to make enemies of her mother, all for his

said, "Uncle Jay, you should try to understand my

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

suffer for it?!"

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

at all. "You're the one who raised her, and she loved you as much as you had loved her. Did