What Separates Me and You

Chapter 143 She’s Nothing To Him

Josephine’s gaze flickered as she turned to look at the door. The door was shut tight, with no sign of anyone coming in or leaving recently.

A look of bewilderment crossed her face. She wondered if she was still somehow in her dreams.

She even wondered if she had been hallucinating.

She stood up from the ground. After sitting on the cold, hard floor for too long, her legs were utterly numb. They buckled underneath her, and she fell back onto the couch immediately.

Josephine rubbed her calves. The tingling numbness in them was so unpleasant that she winced painfully.

Subsequently, as she moved the muscles in her cheek, the tightness on her face became more apparent. She was almost certain now that she hadn’t been dreaming or hallucinating.

Someone had indeed applied medication on her cheeks.

Could it be that there was someone else in here with her?

Before she could figure it out, the door was pushed open, and Seth walked into the room.

This time, he wore an off-white suit, which accentuated his tall and slender figure. His long, graceful legs were especially notable, almost on par with Lewis’ appearance.

Seth walked over to her side and looked down at her.

Josephine’s fingers tightened over the couch as she watched him anxiously.

After a while, he crouched beside her and unlocked the metal chains encircling her ankles.

“Go and cook.”

Josephine was stunned for a moment before slowly standing up, dragging her sore feet behind her as she walked outside.

The weather had cleared overnight, but the sky remained cloudy. Dark clouds loomed over the mountaintops, creating an ominous atmosphere, as though threatening to crash down and meld with the ground below, blurring the boundary between heaven and earth.

Josephine went to the kitchen to get a basket before picking vegetables from the backyard. As she was worried about it raining later, she gathered enough to last a whole day.

Then, with a large basket brimming with vegetables in her arms, she stumbled her way back to the main building. The soles of her shoes were caked with a thick layer of dirt. The ground was slick, so she ended up falling over a couple of times,

When she reached the side of the courtyard, she squatted down and scraped off the mud on her shoes with a branch.

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Seth stood by the door all this while, watching the figure squatting by the yard. The wool jacket she had on was overly long, with its trailing her sweeping along the ground as she

walked.

dirt off her shoes, Josephine took her basket of vegetables to the kitchen and started bustling around her usual meal

the well, cleaning and cutting the vegetables, and heating the stove before cooking

she saw Seth standing by the door from the corner of her His

eye.

tilted his head in her direction. Immediately, Josephine withdrew her gaze and concentrated on

she entered the kitchen.

just finished preparing their meal when she heard the sound of a car’s horn blaring from the outside. Her hands stilled, along with

holding and hurried to the

the black Maybach enter the courtyard, her

the middle of the yard steadily. The door opened, and Lewis walked out

the vehicle.

suit Seth wore. The light and the dark resided on opposing sides, divided by the vast

Lewis

you for a long time. I really thought

nonsense he was spewing. Instead, his gaze swept over the homestead and focused on the kitchen, meeting Josephine’s

easily, after all. Everything Seth had said was

He was just prioritizing his other

him anyway? She wasn’t worth him

her gaze, and she silently retreated behind

the kitchen. But before he could move, a hand shot

and looked at Seth,

scare her. Moreover, if you wanted to

I still have the patience to deal with your nonsense, you better

words did not anger Seth. Instead, he smiled and had no intentions whatsoever of moving. “Oh, Lewis, you came here by yourself, and now you’re saying things like this.

eyes, a malicious smirk on his lips. “How about you make a guess why I have the guts to come here alone.”

for a while, his

smile. Angling his head toward the kitchen, he called out, “Josephine,

hearing those words from his lips, an unnatural gleam rippled in

kitchen, his gaze never shifting from

of the main building slowly. She stood by the door with

reaction satisfied Seth. He continued, “Josephine, tell President Alvarez. Do you want to go back

stared at her,

for

once!” Lewis raised his

tone.

her a

it didn’t matter whether she was here with Seth or with Lewis. No matter whom she chose, the outcome would be the

had never needed her and never would, and how she would forever remain the spare, the extra one who would never be selected…When she pondered how he would