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?”

knew he was joking, but she took it seriously

in thought when a voice brought her back to

I don’t feel like working anymore, so I’m leaving now,” Sierra said as she gracefully walked out of the building in her high heels. When she

“Josephine?”

on the phone with Lewis, so he also heard that from the other end of the phone.

Josephine. She hung up the phone. “Are you here to look for

that she was not here to see

walked toward the woman. Her eyes

you don’t seem it at all. Look at you, coming to see him all wet.” She reached out and picked up a strand of

of pride and arrogance. “But what’s the point of this? To him, you’re

maybe because it was

it. Josephine knew it in her

the way he looked at the cat he

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

two different things,

out after finishing the coffee delivery and overheard what Sierra just said. She quickly walked up to Josephine, stood protectively in front of her, and

from? Why are you being so loud? Are you trying to find your coop?”

Why are you saying all that shit to my face? Who gave you

her arms and looked at her

You think you’re superior just because you’re bullying someone who can’t speak? I’ve really never encountered anyone like you, running

Sierra’s face turned red from being choked