What Separates Me and You

Chapter 53 Witnessing Her Downfall

Everything happened too fast. Since Josephine didn’t make any noise after the bullet was shot in her face, everyone thought that Caleb was just pretending to shoot at her.

“Josephine!” Of course, Lewis witnessed the scene. He quickly reached out to steady her on her

feet.

Josephine was in so much pain that a burst of colors exploded before the darkness that was known as her vision. She almost lost her balance due to the pain.

Only when Lewis shouted her name did everyone finally turn around to see what happened. Then, they realized Caleb had just shot Josephine.

Lily quickly wrapped her arms around Caleb and pulled him away while pretending to be mad at him. “Behave, Caleb!”

However, Caleb refused to obey her command. Instead, he struggled against his restraints because he wanted to shoot Josephine again. His father, Derek Moss, quickly put a stop to his mischievous

antics.

“Now is not the time for you to fool around, Caleb! Hand over your toy!” Derek grabbed the toy gun intending to snatch it from his son’s hands but the latter continued hugging it to his chest

stubbornly.

“It’s mine!”

Lewis let go of Josephine’s hand so that he could check her eye’s condition. Fortunately, the bullet only made contact with the corner of her eye, but thanks to the shot, her eye was completely red.

He tilted his head to look at Caleb, who forgot to react out of fear toward his icy gaze.

Lily quickly did her best to ease the atmosphere. She approached Josephine and pretended to examine her reddened eye in concern. “I think she’s fine. It’s just a toy gun, so the impact

shouldn’t hurt.”

However, Josephine’s affected eye was extremely red. The spot that was hit by the bullet started to show flecks of blue and purple as well, signifying the formation of a bruise.

Lewis glanced in Lily’s direction. “How did you know that it wouldn’t hurt at all, Lily?”

“It’s just a rubber bullet, isn’t it? How much pain can it cause? Lewis, I know you care about Josephine a great deal, but you shouldn’t be arguing with a child over this petty matter.”

“Then, should I argue with you over this so–called petty matter? As his mother, how are you going to resolve this situation?” A trace of mockery flashed across Lewis‘ eyes.

as she tried to defend her son. “It’s just a toy gun. Is

Lewis

the “Lily couldn’t do anything about Lewis, so she could only turn around to seek

to make the trip here, you know? Must

don’t want to see us, there’s no need to invite us back to this manor! This asn’t a diner gathering it’s a

to speak up immediately Lily, that’s where you’re wrong If we truly viewed you and Youn tamly as outsiders, we wouldn’t have invited you here in the

enough! Are you not done squabbling yet?” Robert’s temper flared as well as he started. berating loudly It’s just a petty matter, yet all of you insist on making a big deal out of it! Should I build a stage for you to continue acting out this drama for the rest of us? Am I the one to be blamed for gathering everyone in the same

once

agam the older man never mentioned anything about Josephine getting injured, despite the long speech he had just given At the end of the day, it showed that he didn’t care about her at all, which led to him sweeping the matter under the

continued Let me ask you this–are you still having dinner here or not?”

feel her eyelid burning in pain. It was true that rubber bullets weren’t able to hurt people, but it also depended on the spot whère

shot

the pain caused to her by the grief of being alienated and neclected by

to stay here and have dinner with the rest of you?”

at him coldly in return. “What did you just

eyes without a trace of guilt while repeating every word slowly. “I said it’s not necessary for us to stay here and have dinner for the rest of you now. Do you really think we can all sit together at the same table and dine together in an atmosphere like this?”

by

ease the atmosphere as well. “It’s just a minor misunderstanding. We’re all family here, so we can’t ruin the harmony between us

matter, you say?”

face. Then, what do you

him for a short while before a low chuckle escaped from his

not what I mea-”

already? Shall we eat?” Lewis interrupted Derek’s words abruptly, now wearing a normal expression. It was as though he wasn’t the one getting

and spoke up at that moment. “Let’s move to the dining room instead of

around here

botore raising her head to glance at him,

his hand to stroke the injured spot Are you still

his

behave like that Sometimes, he would be awfully close to her, making him seem like a moon’s reflection that could be

she would realize that everything was nothing but a

Josephine to the edge of the cliff. There, she would voluntarily make the final leap into

would coax her and slowly guide her to jump into the water in search of the moon

her struggle all the way from the shore. That man

feet once more in order to conceal the thoughts that were reflected

her eye anymore. Instead, he took her hand and led her to the

room.