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 of security.

it would be if Lewis didn’t come for her

went home to an empty mansion that night. He looked down at his wristwatch. to find

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

wardrobe, pushed open the door, and found Josephine’s clothes still

went back to the living room and gave his assistant a call. “Find out

Mrs. Alvarez gone missing?”

a laugh, he said, “She’s enjoying

tell from his tone that something wasn’t right, so

All they needed to do was to check the

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

part

of

knew that Josephine had to be there.

gaze was fixed on

cautiously, “Should I bring Mrs. Alvarez

her cards. Lewis shut off the CCTV footage and smirked.

enough of a hard

to

customers after work hours. However, as they

very helpful and diligent. Not only did she wash the dishes in the

but she would also clean the tables after diners left without being asked

with her work, and they

believed, Josephine did not go back because she

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

delusion that she finally had

teach her how to cook basic meals,

so Josephine was always practicing

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

as she smiled

wasted your talent by having you wash

got nauseous at the smell of food these days, so she was worried

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

quite a while, but all that came out was

came over to pat her on the back at the sight of that. “What’s wrong?

straightened up and wiped her mouth. She touched her belly to gesture that she was pregnant.