A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1038

Zoe felt as if her heart was stabbed just then too.

She had always been convinced that Jay never loved her, that Jay was only being nice to her to win points with the Levines so that he could continue to live with them in wealth and glamor.

She never thought that Jay's obedience came from his desire to stay with her, even though he was always so withdrawn and aloof.

Naturally, she had even less reason to expect that Jay had been rejecting her because he believed they were biologically related.

And he never told her... because he was worried it would hurt her?

just might be true, because she would rather hate

just didn't want me to be with Zoe since I was adopted and lacking in status to marry her. That's why I had been sneaking off with his genetic material to perform paternity tests, doing one

as she imagined Jay going to the DNA test center to do those

hiding in a

did back then was complain and

because I myself took it so hard it

I did, so all I told her was that I never loved her-that I was just

I did the rest of

in fear that she would lose control and start bawling in front