A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1231

Every guest was staring at Cordy, convinced that she was going to declare her love for Jay because her affection for him was all too visible.

And given Zoe's personality, she would want nothing less than to announce it to the whole world.

And yet, when she began, she said, "There are two people I want to thank. The first is Clara Gooding, my mother."

Clara was sitting below stage, her body obviously stiffening when Zoe suddenly mentioned her.

She was holding Yelena in her arms after she got off the stage.

"Yes, she's my mother," Zoe said. "But I never called her that, because there was a time I hated her. If not for her, I wouldn't have gone through the worst moment of my life-1 mean, who would've thought that an heiress of the great Levine family would turn out to be just a maid's daughter?"

Her words were calm, but everyone could empathize with her pain and despair of the time.

did not want to acknowledge her. I really wanted to disown her..." she continued even

eyes were red, her eyes

but Zoe

"If I had done that back then. I'd

who had been regretting her actions all

in the heat of the

given me all her love in a way that no one else could

the first time Zoe called her that, and

cry, Yelena quickly used her little hands to dry her tears. "It's alright,

made Clara's tears gush further-what had she done to

have gone on living our separate lives. I

bridge the gap between us, but in the end, I chose to walk away because it's what you're obliged to do, to atone for the years I was left with the Levines," Zoe said, her voice choking with tears just

away her tears,