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?”

Lily’s. That, combined with what you already have in your company,

“Oh, planning a merger, are you?”

can kick him out of the board at the same time too. I call it killing two

Lily? Will she

“She’ll have

“Alright then.”

Robert threw his phone onto the desk, closed

so much so that he would disregard

Lewis sat in his car, his fingers skating on

removed the Bluetooth earphone from his ears, and

of the Alvarez family mansion and called

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

looked at her phone and answered

her phone, her pupils dilated and her

to

was sitting on the couch idly, picking at the 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

wasn’t until a few seconds

did you touch

in bewilderment as soon as she heard his voice. Lewis knelt

on her wound.

stare at

glanced at her briefly. Blood had begun

as he raised his head to look at Josephine. “Are you that

nodded truthfully. She truly had been that

who it was, anyone sitting in the house

too.

here and

retrieved the first aid kit,

that he even knew where the first aid kit

him silently.

first aid kit and took some fresh gauze from within. Then, he wrapped

you hear me?” He told her as he sat down by her side after everything

was still looking at him unblinkingly.

he’d been wearing three days ago? His black

she reached out and brushed the dust off

he grabbed her arm

her head and stared at him

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

still stand by my side?”

in