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.

spacious and luxurious as Lewis‘ mansion, she felt an inexplicable sense of security.

to herself how nice it would be if Lewis didn’t come for her and she could keep staying

looked down at his wristwatch. to find that it was

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

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

living room and gave his assistant

Alvarez gone missing?”

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

his tone that something wasn’t right, so he immediately agreed and

they needed to do was to check

she got down at the last

part

of

that Josephine

and saw that his gaze was fixed on the

asked cautiously, “Should I bring

cards. Lewis shut off the CCTV footage and

enough of a hard

seem to go as

wasn’t great per se, but still, it buzzed with customers after work hours. However, as they did not charge much for

and diligent. Not only did she

the tables after diners

and they even felt bad for not paying her any

not go back because she was suffering. In fact, she

meals and went grocery shopping together. She had never

gave her the delusion that she finally had a home.

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

each dish, so Josephine was always practicing her

after Josephine showed them what she could cook, Mrs. Casio was impressed. “Josie,

nodded as she smiled

like we’ve wasted your talent by having you

food these days, so she was worried that she might just throw up in

her stomach churn. She immediately rushed over to a corner where the rubbish

quite a while, but all that came out was some bile.

Casio came over to pat her on the back at the

and wiped her mouth. She touched