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.

pieces of her fading memories, but

tightly by an invisible force, making

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

the ground and pounded on the door with the last ounce of hope that someone would rescue her. Finally, her movements slowed down in the end as her energy ran

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

glanced at the caller id and threw his phone on the

she knew that Lewis wasn’t going to pick up her call. She banged on the door of her room and called out, “Mr. Hudson, Mr. Hudson!”

The

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

my brother? Ask him to come here, I need to talk to

Even if he’s here, he won’t let

door, “You’d better call and tell him

life. Given Miss Avery’s personality, she

and

he received a call from Mr. Hudson. He rubbed his forehead in frustration and left the meeting room

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

calls or messages. Can you call Lewis and ask if anything happened to her?” Avery

when he heard Josephine’s name. “You’re in no position to worry about others now. Are

don’t care whether I get out of my room or not!

Lewis bullied her, she

It was true that Josephine was pregnant now. If Lewis

ask. Don’t worry too much. Although Lewis doesn’t have any feelings for Josephine, they

Can you really expect him to have any empathy?” Avery scoffed.

would have divorced Josephine and married Sierra long ago. He

and hung

At that moment, Tyler didn’t know how to bring up

Lewis

his throat and said awkwardly, “Avy couldn’t reach Josephine, so she wanted

brief silence on the other end of the phone

family members so interested in other people’s affairs?”

be defensive. Avy and Josephine are friends, so it’s natural that she is

you should know her best. You’d