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.

slept in the cramped storage room, and though it wasn’t as spacious and luxurious as Lewis‘ mansion, she felt

it would be if Lewis didn’t come for her and she could keep staying here until

down at his wristwatch.

to the bedroom upstairs, all to

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

living room and gave his assistant a call. “Find out where Josephine’s

Mrs. Alvarez gone missing?”

lit a cigarette and took a long drag. With a laugh, he

his tone that something wasn’t right, so he

track her down. All they needed to do was to check the CCTV outside Playtime to know in which direction she went.

got down at the last station,

part

of

Josephine had to be there.

was fixed on the footage. displayed on the monitor.

“Should I bring Mrs.

cards. Lewis shut off the CCTV

enough of a

things did not seem to go as he wished.

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

only did she wash the dishes

she would also clean the tables after diners left

her work, and they even felt bad

back because she was suffering. In fact, she actually enjoyed it

had their meals and went grocery

that she finally

basic meals, but Josephine already knew how

was an extremely picky eater who could taste the most minute difference in each dish, so Josephine was always practicing her culinary skills after marriage. She trained herself to

could cook, Mrs. Casio was impressed. “Josie,

as she smiled

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

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

was about to say something, Josephine felt her stomach churn. She immediately

for quite a while, but all that came out was

at the sight of that. “What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”

wiped her mouth. She touched her belly to gesture that she