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.

as spacious and luxurious as Lewis‘ mansion,

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

that night. He looked down at his wristwatch. to find that it was almost midnight. And…the mute wasn’t

kitchen, and then to the bedroom upstairs, all to no

pushed open the door, and found

and gave his assistant a call. “Find out where

Alvarez gone

long drag. With a laugh, he said, “She’s enjoying a taste of

tell from his tone that something wasn’t right, so

to

that she got down at the last station, and headed

part

of

they knew that Josephine had to be

his gaze was fixed

asked cautiously, “Should I bring Mrs. Alvarez

all her cards. Lewis shut off the CCTV

back when she’s had enough of a hard

seem to go as

However, as they did not charge much for

diligent. Not only did she

clean the tables after diners left without being asked

and they even felt

what Lewis believed, Josephine did not go back because she was suffering. In fact, she actually enjoyed it

meals and went grocery shopping together. She

gave her the delusion that she finally

cook basic meals, but Josephine already knew how to do

Josephine was always practicing her culinary skills after marriage. She trained herself to cook everything to suit his

what she could cook, Mrs. Casio was impressed. “Josie, you’ve learned to cook before, haven’t

as she smiled

we’ve wasted your talent by having you wash dishes! Should

hands. She got nauseous at the smell of food these days, so she was worried that she might just throw up in the

about to say something, Josephine felt her stomach churn. She immediately rushed over to a corner where the rubbish bin was and started dry

retched for quite a while, but all that came out was some

came over to pat her on the back at the

a few breaths to steady herself before she straightened up and wiped her