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

when a voice brought her back

as she gracefully walked out of the building in her high heels. When she turned her head, she saw Josephine, soaked to the

“Josephine?”

was on the phone with Lewis, so he also heard that from the other

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

waved her hand to indicate that she was

raised her eyebrows and walked toward the woman. Her eyes scanned Josephine up and down like miniature X-rays.

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 pity you seeing you like

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

her lips tightly, and maybe because it was too

didn’t need Sierra to say it. Josephine knew

at her was no different from the way he looked at the cat he

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

two different things, after all.

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

are you being so loud? Are you trying to find

you forget to brush your teeth after breakfast? Why are you saying all that

her arms and

you’re bullying someone who can’t speak? I’ve really never encountered anyone like you, running into other people’s homes and squawking everywhere. Are you that desperate to let everyone know your secret?”

Sierra’s face turned red from