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.

didn’t want to risk the life

out her hand

her face against his chest and nudged

inscrutable, and he

a while, she let go of him, took a step back, and gestured

was wrong. I don’t

an eyebrow

nodded, looking straight at him with sincerity.

finally softened. Gently, he stroked

let me see that word

fingers and nodded, showing

his hand and turned around

out a sigh and sat weakly on the sofa. She

tore it to pieces, crumpled them up, and threw them into the

went into his study, seemingly with no plans to leave for

to the kitchen and made a table

door of the study and knocked four times,

eat,” three knocks meant “need to talk,”

down from upstairs. He had changed into a

face disappeared, making him look as young as a college

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

rang. Josephine glanced at it out of the corner of her eye. It was a call

expected, he looked at the phone, silenced it, and placed it upside down on the

table.

when his beloved girlfriend was injured in the hospital, he would not