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

the stairs briskly and came bounding down

paused in his tracks just to talk to her. “Don’t go

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

Alvarez Manor. Many people were already present

room.

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

family were present, along with Layla, Lily’s birth mother, who

men could be seen squatting in the middle of the living room.

one to speak up. “Shouldn’t you provide us with

head wildly. “I-I don’t know anything! I don’t even know them!”

swiping to the audio recorder app. Then, he started playing

are you guys right now? Have you left Elysium?”

only stare at the phone blankly while listening to

us voluntarily. They recorded the entire phone conversation just to prevent you from going back

definitely forged!” Daphne had completely lost her cool as she could only shake her head while stammering incomprehensive 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

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

raised her head slowly to

stood up

flicker of emotion streaked past Derek’s eyes. He must have thought of something, seeing as he quickly

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

more than two brain cells would know that Daphine didn’t have a solid reason for carrying out the whole

guts.

her the orders from behind the

already bubbling from his lips. “Are you asking me this question just so I can sue you for

latter did a double-take because of what Lewis said.

hair before tugging on them

Give my daughter

of sharp pain flared from her scalp. She

hell did Lily do to you, huh? How could you be so cruel to her? I’ll fucking

mind your words! You don’t have the right to do whatever you

a few housekeepers stepped forward to separate Daphne and Layla from each other.

to Lily! I don’t mind

so furious that her chest kept heaving up and down as she panted heavily. At the same time, she was frightened after hearing Layla’s threats. Hence, she screamed, “She’s gone crazy!

curses and threats at the Alvarez family from afar, which sent chills