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.

following night. When

walked up the stairs briskly and came bounding down the stairs a short

in his tracks just to talk to her.

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

people were already present in

room.

pale as a ghost. Nancy sat next

the Moss family were present, along with Layla, Lily’s birth mother, who also attended the gathering. In total,

be seen squatting in the middle

“Shouldn’t you

woman kept shaking her head wildly. “I-I don’t know anything!

a phone from his pocket and swiping to the audio recorder app. Then, he started playing

guys right now? Have you left Elysium?”

only stare at the

voluntarily. They recorded the entire phone conversation just to prevent

words. At the same time, she couldn’t help but wonder how on earth did things get to this point. How did Derek and his family manage to track down the kidnappers in

that Daphne’s mind wasn’t working at all. Suddenly, she had a feeling that a pair of phantom hands were manipulating her every move the whole time. The mastermind was slowly pushing her toward the bottomless abyss that would definitely shatter her from the inside

Daphne raised her head slowly to look at him.

she immediately stood up from the couch

seeing as he quickly approached Lewis as well. “Lewis, do you know about Daphne’s involvement

question since he didn’t have the mood to play mind

would know that Daphine didn’t have a solid reason for carrying out

guts.

her the orders

from his lips. “Are you

a double-take because of what Lewis

Layla rushed over and clutched fistfuls of Daphne’s hair before

bitch! Give my

flared from her scalp. She reached out to grab Layla’s wrists as

do to you, huh? How could you be so cruel to her?

“Layla Saunders, mind your words! You don’t have

housekeepers stepped forward to separate Daphne and Layla from

alive. at that moment. “You bitch! You all are fucking bitches! How dare you do this to Lily! I don’t mind sacrificing myself just to drag all of you to hell

heaving up and down as she panted heavily. At the same time, she was

curses and threats at the Alvarez family from