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 how hard it was to

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

up on your family because of Zoe York?!" Nancy snapped, attributing

didn't want you to put yourself

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

meddling in my

Cora was dumbstruck-she had never seen Jay act this

earnest about it, treating him like they were

Shouldn't Jay be grateful?

willing to make enemies of her mother,

the confrontation just then, she said, "Uncle Jay, you should try to understand my mother's perspective. Zoe’s past is a little

victim, but did it ever cross her mind that Zoe was too?!" Jay retorted, starting to lose

suffer for it?!"

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

raised her, and she loved you as much as you had loved her. Did it cross your mind how miserable she was when you went