What Separates Me and You

Chapter 136 Lost Her Mind

Josephine closed the notebook before taking out another one.

That particular notebook was quite old, its pages already yellowed. The handwriting on the notebook was crooked and messy, and most of the words were starting to become blurry.

She flipped open that notebook and started reading through the pages.

She had jotted down those wishes when she was still a little girl. They only took up a few

pages, but all of them were already fulfilled.

For example, in the past, little Josephine wanted to go to the playground.

She wanted a cake and a big lollipop as her snacks. Of course, she wanted to watch cartoons while wearing a beautiful white dress and have butterfly hair clips adorn her hair.

Most importantly, she wanted to get married to Lewis.

That was the final wish written in the old notebook. After that, there weren’t any more wishes. Only blank, yellowed pages were left.

After getting married to Lewis, Josephine had no more wishes.

It was as if her story had come to a happy ending.

However, the story of her life had yet to end. Avery had once conveyed to Josephine that a life of tranquility awaited the main character in every movie or story after their grand finale. It was a life devoid of excitement, causing people to lose interest and disregard those characters.

That was why once Josephine’s wishes were fulfilled, Lewis never returned to her side.

Every day, she stayed in the empty mansion all by herself. She couldn’t look forward to embracing any interesting event in life, seeing as nothing of that sort would happen to her. Her life resembled a stagnant pool of water.

Josephine flipped to the last page of wishes.

She picked up her pen and started writing new wishes below her last childhood wish.

Time seemed to dissolve around Josephine as she realized it was already 3 am upon completion. Despite the growing exhaustion, she gazed at the list of wishes she had just penned. At that moment, she discovered an awakening within herself-she still harbored a multitude of desires and aspirations, experiences yet to be embraced in her lifetime.

After exhaling deeply, Josephine closed the old notebook. She took both notebooks to the storeroom and hid them there.

Lewis would never enter that room in his entire life, after all.

night. When Josephine noticed him, she stood up

glance at her. Instead, he walked up the stairs briskly and came bounding down the

he paused in his tracks just to

departed from the mansion once again. Josephine stared in the direction he had just left, her

arrived at Alvarez Manor. Many people were already present

room.

pale as a ghost. Nancy sat next to her while patting her shoulder

Lily’s birth mother, who also

in the middle

up. “Shouldn’t you provide us with an explanation,

aforementioned woman kept shaking her head wildly. “I-I

his pocket and swiping to the audio recorder app.

are you guys right now? Have you

the familiar voice drifted out of the phone, Daphne’s complexion became ashen. She could only stare at the phone blankly while listening to the recorded conversation.

entire phone conversation just to prevent

At the same time, she couldn’t help but wonder how on earth did things get to this point. How did Derek and

pair of phantom hands were manipulating her every move the whole time. The mastermind was slowly pushing her toward the bottomless abyss

Daphne raised her head slowly to look

seemed to regard him as her savior because she immediately stood up from the couch and stumbled toward him. “Lewis! Lewis,

streaked past Derek’s eyes. He must have thought of something, seeing as he quickly approached Lewis as well. “Lewis, do you know

didn’t have the mood to play mind

that Daphine didn’t have a solid reason

guts.

her the

shot Derek a sideway glance, laughter already bubbling from his lips. “Are you asking me this question just

did a double-take because of

Daphne’s hair before tugging on them harshly. She then started beating

fucking bitch! Give my

waves of sharp pain flared from

your mother are filthy sluts! What the hell did Lily do to you, huh? How could you be so cruel to her? I’ll fucking

slandered by Layla, she stood up immediately, clearly enraged. “Layla Saunders, mind your words! You

to separate Daphne and Layla from

do this to Lily! I don’t mind sacrificing myself just to drag all of you to hell with me! I will avenge my poor daughter! I won’t let every one of you off

At the same time, she was frightened after hearing Layla’s threats. Hence, she screamed, “She’s gone crazy! Throw her

was soon dragged out of the living room. Everyone could still hear her hurling curses and threats at the Alvarez