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.

any more time, he slapped her across the face with the back of his hand.

to the ground. Her cheeks were numb, a buzzing sound ringing in her ears. Dark specks filled her

a long time before her vision cleared.

she felt blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. She winced. Half of her face was entirely numb.

Seth’s eyes

her up by her collar.

sneer on his lips. “Why? What happened to obeying my every

eyes, her gaze flickering with a

want you anymore, yet you still want to save yourself for him? God, have some self-respect. You’re

was swollen, his voice incredibly gentle. There were even traces of pity in his tone as he spoke

released her and sat back down on his chair. From where he sat, he towered over her, radiating superiority when he looked down at her and spoke. “Come here.”

to push herself up

to me.”

and she looked

cascading down all over his face. With a crown on his head, a smile on his lips, and that white suit adorning his figure, he resembled

face that concealed the darkest and most violent demons underneath was, undoubtedly, the most truthful embodiment of the

Josephine,” he shouted at

to budge an inch. Humiliation spread within her heart and leaked from her eyes in the form of tears.

can handle?” Seth taunted.

obey me at once, I’ll sell you to Mynor. You can

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

particularly angry. He retrieved a

“Is this her?”

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

not make out what she was saying.

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

her lip, after much internal turmoil, her gaze lowered, her lashes hiding the tumultuous emotions

eyes.

with both hands, Josephine knelt and crawled toward Seth slowly.

against the floor, its clatter

knelt in front of Seth and looked up

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

down her chin. One by

his hand.

suddenly releasing his grasp on her. “The next time you see Lewis,

that, he stood to

when she heard the sound of the door closing that Josephine slumped onto the ground, her energy spent.

Josephine lay on the couch, her head spinning from the full force of the

text message from a stranger. It was an attachment

clicked on it before its contents startled him out of his wits. His phone flew out of his hands and clattered on the ground about six feet from where he stood.

his forehead. At that time, he was still in the living room of Styx Mansion. Fumbling on his phone, he couldn’t help but peer upstairs. “President Alvarez must still be awake, right?” he