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She never thought that Jay's obedience came from his desire to stay with her, even though he was always so withdrawn and aloof.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

It just might be true, because she would rather hate him than accept that a love between them was impossible!

"I used to doubt Alan," Jay continued then. "I was sure that he just didn't want me to be with Zoe since I was adopted and lacking in status to 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 became convinced that I was Alan's son and Zoe's uncle."

Zoe felt a pang of aching over her chest as she imagined Jay going to the DNA test center to do those tests.

Was he staring at those papers, hiding in a quiet corner and sobbing to himself?

Did he know how much she hated him over those years?!

There were times when she wanted to just pick up a knife and stab him to death, and then kill herself.

If he told her the truth, she might have taken it hard, or fallen apart… but she would never have hated him!

"Later, Zoe left the Levines to build a career for herself in showbiz. The Levine estate was vast at the time, but they have barely anyone to manage it. That was why they let her out on her own and never offered her any support in showbiz—it was an attempt to make things hard for her, so that she would give up on her dreams."