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.

her across the face with the back of his hand.

ground. Her cheeks were numb, a buzzing sound ringing in her ears. Dark specks filled her vision, and her mouth filled with the faint,

the ground for a long time before her vision

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

Seth’s eyes

coldness as he yanked her up by

lips. “Why? What happened to obeying my every command?”

glistened in Josephine’s eyes, her gaze flickering with

you still want to save yourself

caressed the side of her face that was swollen, his voice incredibly gentle. There were even traces of pity in his tone as he spoke as if he hadn’t been the one to slap her in

From where he sat, he towered

She was just about to push herself up from the ground when

to me.”

shrank, and she looked at him in disbelief.

his head slightly, his wavy hair cascading down all over his face. With a crown on his head, a smile on his lips, and that white suit

face that concealed the darkest and most violent demons underneath was,

he shouted at her.

inch. Humiliation spread within her heart and

all you can handle?” Seth

once, I’ll sell you to Mynor. You can see for yourself, then, how they torment little girls like you.”

head, her tears falling uncontrollably. She stared at the brazier. She had the wildest urge

a tablet from behind him and dragged his finger across

“Is this her?”

screen was an image of Mrs. Jinkins lying on a hospital bed. It seemed that she had already awakened and was propped against the headboard, conversing with a

had no audio. Josephine could not

from the tablet to Seth’s face. Josephine saw that arrogant, domineering look he maintained as he waited for her reaction.

her gaze lowered, her lashes hiding the tumultuous emotions

eyes.

her body weight with both hands, Josephine knelt

ankles dragged against the floor, its clatter distinct and

of Seth and

her chin. He smiled. “That’s it. Not that difficult to do what you’re told, is

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

his hand.

grasp on her. “The next time you see Lewis, don’t forget to tell him you

he

the door closing that Josephine slumped onto the

head spinning from the full force of the slap she had endured earlier. Without realizing it, she slipped into

text message from a stranger. It was an attachment file, which he initially thought was junk.

before its contents startled him out of his wits. His phone flew

his forehead. At that time, he was still in the living room of Styx Mansion.