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.”

there a while ago, and she found it

silently approving of her behavior even though he knew that Josephine was standing right

Josephine witnessed it

saw how he pampered

loved Sierra, no matter how unreasonable or absurd her behaviors were, they were reasonable

it meant humiliating his own wife

the car after she

Lewis’ hands. “Hey, why are you still sulking? I won’t bring

wanted him to divorce

the mute woman and was just fulfilling his promise to his grandfather, Sierra would still

was a one-and-only kind of love,

was Lewis’ darling and that he

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

she’d say that he loved no one but himself.

seat. He took a long

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

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

care of Josephine for the rest of his life even if he didn’t love her, and Lewis swore to

only sworn to two people in his life. Once was to Alan, and the other time was to