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.

and pieces of

to be squeezed tightly by an invisible force, making her

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

the ground and pounded on the door with the last ounce of hope that someone

unable to hear Josephine’s cries for

glanced at the caller id and threw

her calls were not answered. Deep down, she knew that Lewis wasn’t going to pick up her call. She banged

The

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

him to come here, I need to talk to him!”

call him. Even if he’s here, he won’t let you out, Mr. Hudson answered calmly.

was furious upon hearing this and yelled at the door, “You’d better call and tell him to come back this instant, or else I’ll jump off the

Given Miss Avery’s

quickly pacified her and

clients when he received a call from Mr. Hudson. He rubbed his forehead in frustration

be good for a few days? I can’t do anything. about this since

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

heard Josephine’s name. “You’re in no position to worry about

my room or not! Please help

bullied her, she won’t tell anyone about

pregnant now. If Lewis did anything bad to her, she might

I’ll call him and ask. Don’t worry too much. Although Lewis doesn’t have any feelings for Josephine,

heartless man. Can you really

loved Sierra that much, hel would have divorced Josephine and married Sierra long ago. He wouldn’t be entangled with other women while still being married

her and hung up.

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

up?” Lewis

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

other end of the

your family members so interested in other people’s

defensive. Avy and Josephine are friends, so it’s

continued in a frosty tone, “Tyler, Avery is your sister, you should know her best. You’d better keep an eye on her. Otherwise, don’t blame me