A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 914

Everyone's jokes only made Zoe very awkward.

She was certainly confused with what Jay was doing, running around this late at night especially with his lame foot!

"Sorry, I couldn't join the party since I was a little busy. I'll make it up to everyone next time." He smiled.

"The little one keeps clinging to you, is it?" one of the thespians teased.

"Well, I just managed to coax her to sleep," Jay replied—Yelena had certainly been clingy ever since they moved in together, and he basically could not leave the house once he reached home.

"And you couldn't wait to get Zoe once you did, huh?" someone added.

Jay admitted to it openly too. "Yeah, I'm worried she drank too much and was lucky to make it in time. Well, it is quite late, so I'm taking Zoe home for now. Let's have a gathering when we can."

"Bye, Mr. Parker!"

"Bye, Zoe!"

As Zoe followed Jay to the MPV, Jay took her hand—she could not refuse with so many others watching, and they locked fingers while they walked and everyone watched.

Naturally, she let go once in the MPV and said bluntly, "You didn't have to come this late."

"People would be concerned that our marriage is troubled if I didn't."

"No, they wouldn't." Zoe was certainly skeptical.

"The tabloids would come up with anything for clicks," Jay told her.

She did not want to argue at that point and said, "Anyway, you don't have to come out to get me from now on. Don't you know that the more we hype up our marriage, the worse the criticism would be when we break up? Let's just stay distant so that no one would find it questionable even when we split up."