A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 144

Chapter 144

Jay did not appear worried at all when he saw Zoe, but instead, he asked flatly, “It’s late. Why aren’t you sleeping? Don’t you have classes tomorrow?”

“What am I to you, Jay?” she asked him then.

She was just seventeen at the time, and she did not understand why she was losing composure like that.

She was very calm, unlike her usual pampered self–she was even willing to believe that Jay just had an accident with that actress.

When she thought about it later on, she decided that she did not throw a tantrum because she did not want Jay to hate her.

But at the time, Jay’s answer was nonchalant and carried no hesitation. “My niece.”

“But, last night… Zoe murmured.

“Last night?” Jay chuckled, his eyes showing no concern at all. “I was just drunk.”

“No, you weren’t!” Zoe cried–she knew Jay could not hold his liquor, which was why he always avoided getting drunk!

“Fine, I wasn’t. I didn’t want to take advantage of you, but I’m 22 and an adult–I have a hard time refusing any woman throwing themselves in my arms.”

Even as Jay spoke, he was watching as she bawled like an idiot without feeling any sympathy, and he finished flatly, “Just forget it.”

Forget it?!

He could not refuse any woman?!

Zoe’s heart was crushed, and she groaned in misery, “That was my first kiss…”

“Sorry,” Jay said, as if he was not responsible for it.

Even so, she asked, “Don’t you love me?”

She held so much hope even as she breathed those words, her eyes were filled with yearning.

She genuinely mustered all her courage just to ask that.

And yet, Jay’s response was cold and without hesitation.