What Separates Me and You

What Separates Me and You

Chapter 14 But She’s a Grown-up Now

Josephine’s fingers suddenly tightened in fright, crumpling the pregnancy test.

results in her hand. After registering the situation, she flipped the form over on the

sofa.

Standing up, she turned around and looked at Lewis as she tried hard to calm herself

down.

“I was looking at the divorce agreement. Do you want to have a look?” she asked.

Lewis stared at her fingers, then shifted his gaze to her face as his eyes darkened. It was as if the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees.

He strode toward Josephine and stood in front of her, extending his fingers. “Let me

have a look.”

The woman’s expression froze as she looked into his bottomless gaze. Her fingers. were clenched tightly together.

“Aren’t we getting a divorce? Let me see it.” He moved his hand a little closer, his gaze piercing into her as if he could see right through her.

Josephine didn’t know whether he had changed his mind or had seen through her lie, but she dared not give it to him.

child and didn’t want to risk the life of

Josephine reached out her hand and

her face against his chest

expression was inscrutable, and

let go of him, took a step back, and

was wrong. I don’t want a divorce

raised an eyebrow nonchalantly. “Really?”

at him with sincerity.

a moment, his expression finally softened. Gently, he stroked

don’t let me see that

her fingers and nodded, showing

and turned around to go upstairs.

a sigh and sat weakly on the sofa. She picked up the pregnancy

up, and threw them into the trash

seemingly with no plans to leave

made a table full

of the study and knocked four times, which was the secret. code they had agreed upon.

three knocks meant “need to talk,” and two knocks meant “brought you

upstairs. He had changed into a loose, deep gray home attire that accentuated his

and the coldness on his face disappeared, making him look as young as a college student in

into this outfit was an indication that he would not be going out unless the sky was falling. This habit of his had

eating together, his phone rang. Josephine glanced at it out of the corner of her eye. It was

silenced it, and placed it upside down on

table.

girlfriend was injured in the hospital, he would