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.

in the cramped storage room, and though it wasn’t as spacious and

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

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

bedroom upstairs, all to no avail. As he searched for her,

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

living room and gave his assistant a

Mrs. Alvarez

long drag. With a laugh,

his tone that something wasn’t right, so he

wasn’t difficult to track her down. All they needed to do was to check the CCTV outside Playtime to know in which direction she

that she got down at the last station, and headed

part

of

that Josephine had to be there.

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

assistant asked cautiously, “Should I

cards. Lewis shut off

enough

seem to

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

only did she wash the dishes

tables after diners

her work, and they even felt bad for

go back because she

and went grocery shopping together. She had never felt this happy

the delusion that she finally had a home.

meals, but Josephine already knew

picky eater who could taste the most minute difference in each dish, so Josephine was always

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

as she

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

so she was worried that she might just throw up in the pot one

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

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

back at

herself before she straightened up and wiped her mouth. She touched her belly