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She never thought that Jay's obedience came from his desire to stay with her, even though he was always so withdrawn and aloof.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

true, because she would rather hate him

marry her. That's why I had been sneaking off with his genetic material to perform paternity tests, doing one after another until I finally gave up on hoping... and

felt a pang of aching over her chest as she imagined Jay going to the DNA test

hiding in a

was complain and throw spiteful tantrums, thinking

we were blood related, because I myself took it so hard it almost destroyed me.

I was

her as I did the rest of

turn biting her lip in fear that she would lose control and start bawling in front