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.

Styx Mansion the following night. When Josephine noticed him, she stood

he walked up the stairs briskly

past her, he paused in his tracks just to talk to

in the air, Lewis departed from the mansion once again. Josephine stared in the direction he had

Alvarez Manor. Many people were already present in the

room.

sat next to her while patting her shoulder in an

mother, who also attended the gathering. In total,

men could be seen squatting in the middle of the living

“Shouldn’t you provide us with an explanation, Daphne?”

“I-I don’t

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

you guys right now?

complexion became ashen. She could only stare at the phone blankly while listening to the recorded conversation. The

“They surrendered the recording to us voluntarily. They recorded the entire phone conversation just to prevent you from

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 the first

manipulating her every move the whole time. The mastermind was slowly pushing her toward the bottomless abyss that would

Alvarez Manor, Daphne raised her head slowly to

immediately stood up from the couch and stumbled toward him. “Lewis!

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

straightforward with his question since he didn’t have the mood to play

that Daphine didn’t have a solid reason for carrying out the whole plan,

guts.

given her the orders from behind

his lips. “Are you asking me this question

latter did a double-take because

hair before tugging on them harshly. She then started

fucking bitch! Give

of sharp pain flared from her scalp. She reached

you and your mother are filthy sluts! What the hell did Lily do to you, huh?

immediately, clearly enraged. “Layla Saunders, mind your words! You don’t have the right to do whatever you want here! All of you, drag her out

forward to separate

nothing to skin Daphne alive. at that moment. “You bitch! You all are fucking bitches! How dare you do this to Lily! I don’t mind

time, she was frightened after hearing Layla’s threats.

room. Everyone could still hear her hurling curses and threats at the Alvarez family from afar, which sent chills