What Separates Me and You

Chapter 131 Please Do This for Me

Meanwhile, Daphne rushed back to Alvarez Manor. Seth didn’t go to the company today, much to her surprise.

He was on a phone call in the bedroom while looking quite serious. Daphne halted in her tracks and paid attention to the conversation carefully. Then again, Seth didn’t say much.

He kept echoing a few words such as ‘yes,’ ‘alright,’ and ‘go on.”

Daphne ended up eavesdropping on Seth for a long time, but she was unable to get any useful information out of his phone call.

After Seth concluded his phone call, Daphne swiftly approached him, calling out his name, Seth.”

The man tucked his phone back into his pocket before turning around to glance at her. “Why is your hair wet?”

As he spoke, he reached out to tuck a lock of hair behind Daphne’s ear.

Regrettably, Daphne was painfully aware that Seth’s gestures of intimacy were void of any true emotion. Even the smallest of actions, such as tucking her hair behind her ear, felt as robotic and detached as flipping through the pages of a book.

Daphne could only stare at the man before her, clearly in a trance. The sky remained dark and stormy, whereas the heavy downpour continued. Seth stood by the window, his features growing muted under the dim lighting. However, this very lighting also made him look. extraordinarily gentle and mild-mannered than before. It was as if someone had put on a gray filter that highlighted his face.

As Daphne’s eyes drank in Seth’s features, most of the guilt that had been plaguing her earlier dissipated all of a sudden.

She rushed up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist tightly. “Seth, let’s leave the country.”

The latter was about to place his hand on her head when he heard her suggestion, prompting him to pause in his actions. Then, Seth bowed his head to look at her in confusion. “Why do you want to leave the country out of the blue?”

“I’m scared.”

“What are you afraid of?”

Daphne shook her head in response, not daring to tell Seth the truth. She was worried that her husband might view her as a cruel woman afterward.

After all, Seth had been nothing but a mild-mannered gentleman to her-the kind that would

definitely despise women who harbored malice for others.

A glint appeared in Seth’s eyes as he started stroking Daphne’s hair gently. “I can’t do that. I’m not done dealing with the company’s affairs. If I were to leave right now, everyone would think that I fled the country with the funds I embezzled.”

“I don’t care. I just want to leave the country with you. Let’s bring Bambam with us. From now

on,

we’ll live abroad happily ever after, and we won’t return to this country ever again. Let them say whatever they want about us. We won’t be able to hear them, after all.”

be gentle, but his stance was very

country. If he were to do that, he would lose

he had done so far would go down the

really

into her eyes without

he

clenched her fists tightly, deciding to steel her heart for once in front of the man

paused in his actions.

thought of killing her. The people who kidnapped Lily and her children must have gotten into an argument with her, leading to them killing them in

suddenly spoke up.” Daphne, you should know that Dad got taken

why

why you can’t

understand what Seth

and I were to leave, the authorities would think the three of us worked together to set up the incident. We’ll be viewed as

hearing Seth’s explanation. “W-Well, what if they ended up discovering that I was the

not be the case.” Seth didn’t seem confident in

to take Robert out of the equation. If Robert were

of the former’s shares. By then, no one in the Alvarez family would

you know that?” Daphne asked, still unsure.

help you out. You are his biological sister, after all. He won’t let

told me to leave the country.”

is still the same even if you don’t leave the country. Trust me.” The smile on Seth’s face was quite faint. Then again, it was his signature smile, meaning that Daphne wouldn’t be able to

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Daphne’s cheek gently while continuing to smile at her. A mysterious

country right now, Robert would

choice. He could only trade Daphne’s imprisonment for Robert’s freedom. Otherwise, once Lewis took control of the Alvarez family, Seth

involving Robert. The enemy of his enemy was his

was finally reassured. She buried her head into

response. That

way,

she

to seek

out of

“Sure thing.”

continued, “We’ll move out once

“Okay.”

of what Daphne said, Seth always echoed the same answer repeatedly. She was

trivial matters, her husband never turned her down.