What Separates Me and You

Chapter 122 Left With Nothing

Before Robert’s slap could land, Lewis caught his hand.

Robert glared at him, his anger palpable. “Are you trying to rebel against me?”

Lewis’ lips curved upward. He started slowly, “We are discussing workplace matters here. Since we’re talking about work, let’s leave the father-son disciplining out of this. I am not only Alvarez Corp’s president but also one of the corporation’s shareholders. We are equals. It’s inappropriate for you to resort to violence against an equal.”

“Fine! Fine! Fine! Whatever!” Robert shook off Lewis’ arm. “Since you want us to talk about work, let’s talk about work! Now that the corporation is facing such a major problem under your leadership, you attempt to brush it off by quitting, and I will allow it! Even if you want to resign, you must resolve this matter and get the company back on track before doing so!”

Lewis’ brows raised. He smiled. “Alright.”

Robert’s rage flared even more as he looked at Lewis’ nonchalant smile.

“Get the fuck out!”

Lewis nodded, turning to leave.

His behavior was impeccable, but his demeanor was even more infuriating. He remained calm even though anyone in his position would have been riddled with anxiety in the face of that.

Either way, his respectful attitude was provocative in every way possible.

When Lewis had left, Robert fumed in the room for a while. He could not understand any of this. Subsequently, he picked up his phone to make a call.

The call connected quickly.

The person on the other end did not speak. Robert opened his mouth, his expression collapsing into a blend of complex emotions.

“What?”

“Hey, did you see the news about Alvarez Corporation?”

“Yes. Why?”

Robert fell silent. He found it difficult to speak, having not yet decided how exactly to go about

this.

“What? Are you regretting it now? Haven’t you been hopeful about this son of yours?” the person on the other end of the call spoke again.

“I might have been wrong.”

“So, what if you are wrong? It’s not like you can turn back now.”

Robert sat down on his chair weakly. He raised his head and gazed at the ceiling, his dark eyes shining with newfound determination.

“No, we still have a chance.”

“What chance?”

my shares to you now, along with Lily’s. That, combined with what you already have in your

laughed. “Oh, planning a

other options do we have? The company needs to get through this crisis, and we can kick him out of the

Lily? Will she agree?”

sneered. “She’ll have to.

“Alright then.”

an understanding established between them. Robert threw his phone onto

was becoming increasingly arrogant, so much so that he would disregard even his own father. If he were allowed to continue unchecked, the consequences would be

his car, his fingers skating on the surface of the

his ears, and casually tossed it into the storage compartment.

Alvarez

Alvarez’s side. In the past two days, Mrs. Alvarez’s health had gradually recovered. Her injuries hadn’t been severe. After all, she wouldn’t have been foolish enough to jeopardize her own

looked at her phone and answered

his voice emanating from her phone,

to Styx

scab on her knee out of boredom. The scab had fused with the gauze, its edges on the verge of peeling off.

but the middle of it was still healing. Upon the slight

down on the gauze, taking deep breaths. It wasn’t until a few seconds later that the pain gradually subsided.

you touch it?”

bewilderment as soon as she heard his voice. Lewis knelt down in front of her

pressed on

could only stare at him, dazed.

briefly. Blood had begun to seep out from her ripped

knitted as he raised his head to look at

her lip and nodded truthfully. She

sitting in the house all day with nothing

too.

here and

stood up, retrieved the first aid kit, and returned to her side:

even knew where the first aid kit was was remarkable to her.

watched him silently.

fresh gauze from within. Then, he wrapped her wound up again.

He told her as he sat down by her side

was still looking at him unblinkingly.

he’d been wearing three days ago? His black coat had long been

brushed the dust

he grabbed her arm

head and stared at him in surprise.

her face, and his voice was deep when he asked her, ” Josephine, if I were to be ousted

you still stand

blinked in