What Separates Me and You

Chapter 142 Crawl to Me

Josephine’s body tensed, her gaze following his roaming fingers down to her lower abdomen.

Under her jacket, she was wearing one of Seth’s oversized shirts. With its size in comparison to her body, it almost felt like a dress, its only difference being the row of buttons adorning its

front.

He easily unbuttoned the shirt with a flick of his fingers.

Josephine panicked and grabbed his hands, shaking her head pleadingly.

“Tell me then, do you still want to return to Lewis’ side?” Seth’s voice was still light and cheerful, his eyes clear. Josephine could not discern any sign of lust in his actions.

Almost as if…as if he was simply teasing her.

She pressed her lips together tightly. She did not know what he wanted to hear from her. Neither nodding nor shaking her head seemed to satisfy him.

“Do you? Hmm?”

Seth’s hand had already ventured lower into her clothes. It fell on her thigh, scorching her skin.

Josephine wrestled against his exploring hands, but her efforts were futile. Her struggles proved insignificant against his herculean strength, akin to a flea attempting to move a tree.

She shook her head and signed frantically. “I don’t want to go back! I don’t ever want to go back!”

The smile between his eyes deepened, but he did not stop because of her words. Instead, he leaned closer and whispered in her ear. “Has Lewis ever done this to you before?”

Josephine twisted her head away, attempting to shy away from his breath. Her entire body collapsed on the ground helplessly.

She tried to push him away, but he grabbed her wrists roughly.

Seth stared at that slender and fair neck of hers, strands of baby hair fuzzing behind her ears. The tips of her ears were flushed, and her breathing came in shallow but rapid pants.

His pupils darkened, and those clear irises were momentarily tainted by lust.

Josephine held onto her clothes with all her might, her gaze pinned on the ground. She caught sight of the shovel she’d used earlier for the coals.

She reached out, wrapping her fingers around the shovel and aiming it at Seth.

But before she could strike him, his arms tightly clamped down on her other wrist.

Josephine looked up and caught sight of the danger radiating from his features. Her gaze flickered.

Seth tightened his grip on her wrists, and she winced in pain. The shovel clattered to the ground.

without wasting any more time, he slapped her across the face with the

Her cheeks were numb, a buzzing sound ringing in her

on the ground for a long time before her

and looked in Seth’s direction, she felt blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. She winced.

Seth’s eyes

he yanked her up

on his lips. “Why? What happened to obeying

her gaze flickering with a

still want to save yourself for

of pity in his tone as he spoke as if he hadn’t been the one to slap

he towered over her, radiating superiority when he

about to push herself up from the ground

to me.”

looked at him in

face. With a crown on his head, a smile on his

demons underneath was, undoubtedly, the

Josephine,” he shouted at

inch. Humiliation spread within her heart and

all you can handle?” Seth

don’t obey me at once, I’ll sell you to Mynor. You can see

stared at the brazier. She had the wildest urge to dive

a tablet

“Is this her?”

head and looked at the tablet. Displayed on the screen was an image of Mrs. Jinkins lying on a hospital bed. It seemed

no audio. Josephine could not make out

gaze shifting from the tablet to Seth’s face. Josephine saw that arrogant,

her gaze lowered, her lashes

eyes.

weight with both hands, Josephine knelt and crawled toward Seth

ankles dragged against the floor, its

knelt in front of Seth and

leaned down, lifting her chin. He smiled. “That’s it. Not that difficult

bowed her head, her tears trickling down her chin. One by one, they dripped onto

his hand.

“The next time you see Lewis, don’t forget to tell him you don’t want to return

he

sound of the door closing that Josephine slumped onto

Josephine lay on the couch, her head spinning from the full force of the slap she had endured earlier. Without realizing it, she

stranger. It was an attachment file, which he initially thought was junk.

it before its contents startled him out of his wits. His phone flew out of his hands and clattered on the

Styx Mansion. Fumbling on his phone, he couldn’t help but peer upstairs. “President Alvarez must still be awake,