What Separates Me and You

Chapter 24

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

Lewis didn’t come for her and she could keep staying

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

went to the kitchen, and then to the bedroom upstairs, all to no avail. As he

the door, and found Josephine’s clothes still inside. His

gave his assistant a call.

Alvarez gone missing?”

a laugh,

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

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

the last

part

of

so they knew that Josephine had to be

gaze was fixed on the footage. displayed on the monitor. His

“Should I bring Mrs. Alvarez back?”

off the CCTV

back when she’s had enough

did not seem to go as he

but still, it buzzed with customers after work hours. However, as

helpful and diligent. Not only did she

clean the tables

very pleased with her work, and they even

what Lewis believed, Josephine did not go back because she

had their meals and went

that she finally had a

how to cook basic meals, but Josephine already knew how to

in each dish, so Josephine was always practicing her culinary

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

she smiled brightly.

by having you

smell of food these days, so she

immediately rushed over to a

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

her on the back at the sight of that. “What’s wrong? Are you feeling

and wiped her mouth. She touched her belly

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