What Separates Me and You

What Separates Me and You

Chapter 24 He Doesn’t Want Us Anymore

Mr. Casio sighed. His heart ached for the young lady in front of him. Pushing the food to her, he urged, “Go on, tuck in. We don’t want the food to get cold.”

Josephine wiped her tears away and forced a smile.

She picked up a fork and ate hastily, stuffing her mouth.

From Mr. Casio’s point of view, she must have been starving for days.

As Josephine wolfed down the stroganoff, her tears kept falling into the plate and mixing in with the food that she ate.

The diner was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Casio, a middle–aged couple in their forties. They used to have a child, but the child had passed away due to a traffic accident.

They ran the diner and did what they could by trying their best to help people who couldn’t afford their meals.

Josephine sat in the diner for the entire afternoon and stayed on until after dark.

Mrs. Casio was quite worried about her, so she asked her husband, “This poor child, looks quite pitiful. Has she nowhere to go?”

“She can’t speak. I guess she’s looking for a job here.”

When most of the diners left for the night, Mrs. Casio approached Josephine. “Young lady, where do you stay?”

Josephine shook her head. She didn’t have a home. She hadn’t had one since she was five.

Mrs. Casio sighed. “Why don’t you stay here and work for us if you don’t have a place. to go? We have a storage room in the back where you can sleep. All you have to do is wash the dishes and keep the place clean during the day.”

Josephine was stunned. She looked at Mrs. Casio in wonder.

Mrs. Casio chuckled. “But we don’t make much too, so you’re not going to get any wages.”

Josephine nodded in agreement, and even though Mrs. Casio did not understand. sign language, Josephine still signed her a “Thank you“.

Mrs. Casio looked at her dazedly. She seemed to look past Josephine to a faraway place. “If my daughter was still alive, she’d be around your age.”

Josephine’s gaze was downcast as she kept silent.

They cleared out the storage room which had a metal bed frame in it. That was where they usually took a break after a long day in the diner.

though it wasn’t as spacious and luxurious as

caressed her belly and thought to herself how nice it would be if Lewis didn’t come for

empty mansion that night. He looked down at his wristwatch. to find that it

kitchen, and then to the bedroom upstairs, all to no avail. As he searched for her, his expression darkened.

hurried over to the walk–in wardrobe, pushed open the door, and found Josephine’s clothes still inside. His expression lightened

gave his assistant a call.

Alvarez

With a

tell from his tone that something wasn’t right, so he immediately agreed and cut the call.

difficult to track her down. All they needed to do was to check

the last station, and headed to the

part

of

knew that Josephine had to be

glance at him and saw that his gaze was fixed on the footage. displayed

“Should I bring Mrs. Alvarez

Freeze all her cards. Lewis shut off the CCTV footage and

enough of a

things did not seem to go as he wished.

after work hours. However, as they did

diligent. Not only did she wash the dishes in

would also clean the tables after diners left without being

work, and they even felt

believed, Josephine did not go back because she

had their meals and went

the delusion that she finally had a home.

would teach her how to cook basic meals, but Josephine already knew how

most minute difference in each dish, so Josephine was always practicing her culinary skills after marriage.

showed them what she could cook, Mrs. Casio was impressed. “Josie, you’ve learned to cook

nodded as she

by having you

nauseous at the smell of food these days, so

churn. She immediately rushed over to a corner where the rubbish bin was

all that came out was some bile.

Casio came over to pat her on the back at the sight of

up and wiped