What Separates Me and You

Chapter 8 Let’s Get a Divorce

Josephine pursed her lips and stared at him for a while before seemingly making up her mind.

She let go of his clothes and walked past him down the stairs, moving toward the sofa in the living room. She bent down, opened the drawer under the coffee table, and took out a divorce agreement that had been lying unnoticed inside.

Lewis trailed behind and caught sight of the papers too.

They had been there for a while now, but he never realized it. He had never even opened that drawer.

Suddenly, he looked at Josephine, his eyes filled with bewilderment and confusion.

She glanced back at him seriously, and everything she wanted to say was in her eyes—Let’s get a divorce.

All of a sudden, Lewis laughed in anger. “Are you throwing a tantrum?” he asked.

Josephine waved her hand in denial and signed, “I’m not trying to make you angry. I’ve been meaning to give you this for a long time.”

She had wanted to give it to him a long time ago, but she was struggling to muster the courage to bring it up. In that case, why was she doing it now? Was it because she was about to lose her friend, or was it because she had a fever so high that her mind was muddled? She wasn’t sure. But when she took it out, she felt a sense of relief. It was like pulling out a thorn that had been stuck in her heart.

that you want

you,” Josephine expressed, her eyes

sofa. “We can get a divorce, but you have to leave

back upstairs again. The gloominess on Lewis’ face started fading

she came back down and handed a card to him.

again. He looked at Josephine

this mean?” he asked in a

the table and gestured, “All the money you’ve

since your childhood until now, not just the money I’ve given you,” he said in a low voice full

over

leave this door, you won’t be able to survive on your own. How

Josephine took out the divorce

can marry Sierra,

a moment as if they were frozen, but she still stiffly gestured out the last half of the sentence—”be together

papers were scattered all over the ground, and

Her fair complexion was marked with several red scratches from paper cuts, which stood out even more

calmer tone, “When you’ve

left her with those words and

a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath. It was only then that

up divorce with him? He hadn’t even mentioned