What Separates Me and You

Chapter 30 Take a Look

Josephine pounded on the door for a while, but she eventually collapsed and sat on the ground. The cluttered storage room was pitch–black and cramped.

It was too quiet. Even the air was still.

The overwhelming darkness enveloped Josephine, like countless spider webs wrapping around her, making it difficult for her to breathe.

She crouched on the icy floor, hugging her knees tightly.

The only sounds in the entire room were the sounds of her breathing and the beating of her heart.

Lewis asked her to reflect on herself, but she didn’t know what to reflect on. Was it because she waited alone in the restaurant for five hours, or was it because she sent Mrs. Jinkins home?

She didn’t know what she had done

wrong.

Josephine felt around in her pocket and took out her phone. It was dead and wouldn’t turn on.

Curled up against the door, she shut her eyes and covered her ears. Josephine pretended that she was still in her bedroom, just that it was dark outside.

When she was six years old, Daphne had also locked her up in the storage room for a whole day. Rats and bugs crawled over her skin as she was locked inside. For a six- year–old child like Josephine, it was terribly traumatizing.

The most tragic thing was that she couldn’t even make a sound to express her fear. She desperately pounded and scratched at the door until her fingers bled, but no one came to rescue her.

In the end, it was Lewis who opened the door and rescued her.

That was the first time Lewis hugged her. She could still remember the warmth of that embrace vividly as it happened yesterday.

The faint, minty fragrance was uniquely Lewis’s when he was just a teenager.

Now, he was the one who plunged her into the abyss and brought her back to that fateful day.

Her beautiful memory of him was tainted by his actions.

to recall bits and pieces of her fading memories, but

an

clawed at her collar, panting heavily. Her heart raced in her chest as her

ounce of hope that someone would rescue her. Finally, her movements slowed down in the

Lewis had already left in his car, unable to hear Josephine’s cries for help from the storage

glanced at the caller id and threw his

wasn’t going to pick up her call. She banged on the door of her room and called out,

The

rushed upstairs and stood outside Avery’s door. He replied respectfully, “Miss Avery, how

Ask him to come here, I

returned yet, it’s no use trying to call him. Even

“You’d better call and tell him to come back this instant, or

life. Given Miss Avery’s personality, she might actually jump out the window.

and rushed to

He rubbed his forehead in frustration and left the meeting room

days? I can’t do anything. about this since Father has grounded you, Tyler

not answering my calls or messages. Can you call Lewis

in no position to worry about others now. Are you

care whether I get out of my

safe. Even if Lewis bullied her, she won’t tell anyone

was pregnant now. If Lewis did anything bad to her, she might not be able to take the stress.

Don’t worry too much. Although Lewis doesn’t have any feelings for Josephine, they grew up together, so he won’t let anything happen to her,” Tyler assured Avery.

a heartless man. Can you really expect him to have

would have divorced Josephine and married Sierra long ago. He wouldn’t be entangled with other women while still being married to

I’ll ask,” Tyler interrupted her and hung

call. At that moment, Tyler didn’t know how

up?” Lewis asked.

couldn’t reach Josephine, so she wanted to know if everything was okay

silence on the other end of the phone before Lewis

why are your family members so

Josephine are friends, so it’s natural that

“Tyler, Avery is your sister, you should know her best.