What Separates Me and You

Chapter 53

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.

her anger as she tried to defend

is,” Lewis interrupted mercilessly.

do anything about Lewis, so she could only turn around to seek

Robert. “Dad, it’s difficult for us to make the trip here, you know?

asn’t a diner gathering it’s a controntation! In the end,

where you’re wrong If we truly viewed you and Youn tamly as outsiders, we wouldn’t have invited you here in the first place. It’s fine for you to be angry but don’t splash

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

went silent immediately once Robert said his

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,

me ask you this–are you still having

was true that

shot at

compared to the pain caused to her by the grief

here

gazed at him coldly in return. “What did

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

affected by the incident, so dinner wouldn’t go well

forward and tried to 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 just because of a small

small matter,

froze on his face. Then,

before a low chuckle escaped from his lips. “It seems that

not what I mea-”

Derek’s words abruptly, now wearing a normal expression. It was as though he wasn’t the one

up at that moment. “Let’s move to

around here

her head to glance at him, a mildly glum expreston

Josephine as he raised his hand to stroke the

back, thinking that his concerned expression seemed

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

she would realize that everything was nothing but a facade that would shatter at the slightest touch.

sort of person who would slowly lend Josephine to the edge of

and slowly guide her to jump into the water in search of the moon that could

the way from the shore. That man would witness her downfall with

gaze and looked down at her feet once more in order to conceal

Instead, he took her hand and

room.

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