What Separates Me and You

Chapter 4 He Only Loves Himself

Sierra glanced at Josephine where she was standing to one side and saw the faint hickeys around her neck. She suppressed her anger and laughed. “Where else can I find you if not here?”

“You can head inside to work first,” Lewis turned to Josephine and said.

She nodded and walked past Sierra to enter the coffee shop.

She worked here because she had been rejected from many jobs before. Only this place was willing to take her in.

After Josephine left, Sierra walked up to Lewis and took his arm. “Are you still mad?” she said in a cutesy voice.

“Let’s talk in the car.”

Sierra clung to his arm affectionately, but he didn’t push her away.

Before getting into the car, she took out a disinfectant spray from her bag and sprayed it several times on the passenger seat. She then looked up and smiled. “I just want to sanitize it.”

was sitting there a while ago, and she

woman and didn’t say anything, silently approving of her behavior even though he knew that Josephine

windows, Josephine witnessed

pampered and cared for Sierra.

As Lewis loved Sierra, no matter how unreasonable or absurd her behaviors were, they were reasonable and justifiable in his

if it meant humiliating his own wife

car after she

are you still sulking? I won’t bring up divorce again

spoiled her, but whenever she wanted him to divorce that mute woman,

was just fulfilling his promise to

kind of

kept saying that she was Lewis’ darling and that he gave her

Sierra knew it wasn’t true.

Why did the promise still matter? Alan had been dead for three years, so why would Lewis still care

asked who he loved, she’d say that he loved no one but

a cigarette and leaned back in his seat. He took a

he said, “Sierra, I’ve already told you that I’ll support you financially as long as you stay with me. If you don’t get married for the rest of your life, I’ll support you for the entire length

to look at Sierra, he went on, “This is my promise to you, but I also made the same

take care of Josephine for the

had only sworn to two people in his life. Once was to Alan, and