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?”

joking, but she took it seriously

thought when a voice brought

she gracefully walked out of the building in her high heels. When she turned

“Josephine?”

so he also heard that from the other

look at the office building, then glanced at Josephine. She hung

her hand to indicate that she was not here

woman. Her eyes scanned Josephine up and down like

seem it at all. Look at you, coming to see him all wet.” She reached out and picked up a strand of wet hair from Josephine’s shoulder. “People will

whose face was full of pride and arrogance. “But what’s the point of this? To him,

her lips tightly, and maybe because it was too cold

to say it.

the way he looked at the cat

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

were two different

overheard what Sierra just said. She quickly

hen come from? Why are you being so loud? Are you

“Did you forget to brush your teeth after breakfast? Why are you saying all that shit to my face? Who

arms and looked at her provokingly.

really never encountered anyone like you, running into other people’s

red from