What Separates Me and You

Chapter 6 Where Did This Old Hen Come From?

Avery helped Josephine remove her helmet. Both of them were completely drenched, but the coffee in Josephine’s arms was intact.

“Are these people crazy? Do they not even have a coffee machine in this big company?” Avery ranted as she took the coffee from her hands and smiled. “Hey, you can wait here. I’ll be right back.”

Josephine nodded lightly and walked to the main entrance to wait.

The rain grew heavier, and it seemed like winter was coming with the downpour.

Josephine stared into the rain, her mind wandering.

On the day Grandpa Alan brought her to Alvarez Manor, it had also been pouring heavily. The nine-year-old Lewis had scrutinized her and asked who she was.

Grandpa Alan jokingly replied, “I found you a wife. Do you want her?”

Lewis, who was so young at the time, sneered and said, “I don’t want a monkey as my wife.”

He was right. She had been really skinny back then, and her hair was very dry. She might have looked worse than the monkeys in the zoo.

But then he added, “If you don’t eat more, how can you be my wife when you’re so skinny?”

he was joking, but she took it seriously every time.

when a voice brought her back to reality.

like working anymore, so I’m leaving now,” Sierra said as she gracefully walked out of the building in her high heels. When she turned her head, she

“Josephine?”

on the phone with Lewis, so he also heard

glanced at Josephine. She hung up the phone. “Are you here

her hand to indicate that she was not

her eyebrows and walked toward the woman. Her

She reached out and picked up a strand of wet hair

arrogance. “But what’s the point of this? To him, you’re just like a pet.

her lips tightly, and maybe because it was too cold in the rain, her lips turned

Sierra to say it. Josephine knew it in her

her was no different from the way he looked at the cat he reared at home.

liked his cat a lot too. Sometimes, he would forget to feed it before going to work and made sure

were two different things, after

overheard what Sierra just said. She quickly walked up to Josephine, stood protectively in front of her, and eyed Sierra up and down.

you being so loud? Are you trying to find

teeth after breakfast? Why are you saying all that shit to my face? Who gave you the

her arms and looked at her provokingly.

you are? You think you’re superior just because you’re bullying someone who can’t speak? I’ve really never encountered anyone like you, running into other people’s homes and

Sierra’s face turned red from being choked