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.

Josephine took her basket of vegetables to the kitchen

from the well, cleaning and cutting the vegetables,

the door from the corner of her

eye.

his head in her direction. Immediately, Josephine withdrew her gaze

she entered the

sound of a car’s horn blaring from the outside. Her hands stilled, along with the motion of

she had been holding and hurried to the

black Maybach enter the courtyard, her grip tightened, and her breath stopped for a moment.

middle of the yard steadily. The door

the vehicle.

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

she?” Lewis spoke first.

smile on his face. “I’ve been waiting for you

swept over the homestead and focused on the kitchen,

so easily, after all.

where she was all along. He was just prioritizing his

it was fitting. What was she to him anyway? She wasn’t worth

her gaze, and she

walk in the direction of the kitchen. But before he could move, a

at Seth, who

“If you approach her like this, you would only scare her. Moreover, if you wanted to take her away, shouldn’t you at least

I still have the patience to deal

no intentions whatsoever of moving. “Oh, Lewis, you came here by yourself, and now

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

him for a while, his

doesn’t matter.” He regained his smile. Angling his head toward the kitchen, he called out, “Josephine, come

hearing those words from his lips, an unnatural gleam rippled

his gaze never shifting from the door.

out of the main building slowly. She stood by

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

her,

for a long

Lewis raised his voice suddenly,

tone.

startled her a

here with Seth or with Lewis. No matter whom she chose, the outcome would be

forever remain the spare, the extra one who would never