A Life Debt Repaid novel Chapter 1037

The journalists were left in an uproar again—no one could resist discussing the bombshells Jay was dropping!

"My goodness… I thought it's already shocking that Jay is Alan Levine's illegitimate son… but Zoe used to be the Levines' heiress too?!"

"Why wasn't there anyone who told us about Zoe's identity before?"

"Now that Jay has mentioned it, it was weird how Zoe seemed to disappear into thin air back then. How could someone vanish from showbiz so completely? Was it really revenge from the Levines?!"

"I remember an article mentioning Zoe's appearance in front of Levine Manor, but no one seemed to care because Jay announced that he was dating Mandy Jessop soon after…"

"Oh, right, Jay used to date Mandy Jessop… I'm confused."

"Yeah, it's all so complicated! This has to be the greatest bombshell in showbiz, don't you think?"

The journalists were all eagerly and noisily discussing the piece of news, since there were just so many questions. Even they would lose their minds if Jay did not explain everything down to the last detail, let alone the netizens.

In fact, the comment section was slowing down again, although some of them were still commenting: [...]

"I was waiting for Zoe to be eighteen to declare my love for her, but she beat me to it when she was seventeen…"

Jay trailed off, her gaze a mixture of happiness and misery. "She kissed me that night, and I kissed her back. Happiness came as sudden as natural like that, since I'd already decided by then that she'd be my better half—even if things came a little earlier than expected.

"I always took that happiness for granted—as if it was my right, which was why I felt as if the world ended for me when it was taken away. Because on that same night, Alan Levine sat me down and gave me the first serious talk he ever gave me: he told me that I was his biological son and not his adopted son, and that was why Zoe and I could never be together."

Jay's eyes welled with tears even as he said that, as if the blow remained in him even after so many years—it still hurt even now, when he remembered it.