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.

it wasn’t as spacious and luxurious as Lewis‘ mansion, she felt an inexplicable sense

didn’t come

down at his wristwatch. to find that

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

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

living room and gave his assistant a call. “Find

Mrs. Alvarez gone

a laugh, he

from his tone that something wasn’t

to do was to check the CCTV outside Playtime to know in which direction

they saw that she got down at the last station, and headed to the

part

of

knew that Josephine had to be there.

him and saw that his gaze was fixed on the footage. displayed on the monitor. His face held no

assistant asked cautiously, “Should I bring Mrs. Alvarez

shut off

back when she’s had enough of a hard

things did not seem to go as he wished.

work hours. However, as they did not charge much for food, they did not make much. of a profit.

very helpful and diligent. Not only did she wash the

clean the tables after diners left without being

work, and they even felt bad for not paying her any wages.

because she was suffering. In fact, she

and went grocery shopping together. She had never felt this

the delusion that she finally had a

teach her how to cook basic meals, but

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

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

nodded as she smiled

all! Seems like we’ve wasted your talent by having you wash dishes! Should you be a chef here?”

these days, so she was worried that she

stomach churn. She immediately rushed over

all that came out was some

came over to pat her on the back at the sight of that.

breaths to steady herself before she straightened up and wiped her mouth. She touched her belly to gesture that she