Chapter 151 Scorn

There was no answer.

Josephine knocked on the door two more times after that before the door finally swung open. Lewis stood at the door coldly as he looked at her, his stance radiating superiority.

She signed out of habit, “Eat.”

Lewis stared at her fingertips, his eyes darkening. Suddenly, he grabbed her wrist and pushed her against the wall.

“Can’t you speak now?”

Josephine stared at his face, merely inches away from hers. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

Her lips were uncooperative, and the pace at which she spoke was slower than when she signed. Despite her prolonged efforts, no words emerged.

Lewis gazed at her indifferently. His thumb rubbed against her cheek before it traced the outlines of her lips.

“What were you thinking? I asked you to come back with me, and you refused, then you went and jumped off a cliff. Now, you’re in front of me and asking me to eat? What’s the meaning of all this?”

She bit her lip, her gaze burning as she looked at him. She didn’t know how to explain any of it to him.

Lewis‘ voice was calm and composed, as if he were simply holding an everyday conversation. with her. “Is being with me that unbearable for you?”

She shook her head.

“Do you feel that everywhere, as long as it’s not by my side, is freedom to you? Even if it means death?” His cool voice was tinged with inexplicable traces of melancholy and

disappointment.

Josephine’s heart sank. She raised her hand and grabbed his fingers, looking deeply into his

eyes.

There wasn’t much emotion in his eyes. The way he looked at her was no different from usual.

Yet, Josephine felt somewhat uneasy.

She needed to express the words she couldn’t speak somehow, so she stood on tiptoes and pressed her lips against his. It was the only thing she knew how to do now.

Lewis was unmoved by her actions. He let her kiss him clumsily, offering nothing in return..

His stoicism shattered her heart. A surge of bitterness washed over her, and tears blurred her

vision.

Before, as long as she was the one to initiate, Lewis would respond to her touch no matter how angry he was.

He had never been this cold before.

hand to unbutton his

grabbed her wrists, and she was forced to look at him. Anger

turned her around, pressing her against the wall.

you know

you do this to Seth too?” His breath fanned her ear. His voice

“Do you

for

to shake her head as she felt a

She forced the syllables

“No, what?”

was no way she could speak

“Yes or no?”

“No-

landed on her waist, his voice low and hoarse. “Or, is it that you simply lack the

the tears in her eyes couldn’t

I not enough to

with much effort and looked at him pleadingly.

“Ea–ea–eat.”

There was a hint of mockery

and turned to

in his direction and watched his back. She

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Chapter 151 Scorn

tears.

his eyes

He despised her.

The night before, in the cave, he had restrained the madness in his

or even curiosity as

outweigh the magnitude of the choice she had made in the homestead. It could never excuse the fact that she’d abandoned

toward Seth instead.

proud man. He would never sit back and let the things he owned betray him and run

behavior meant that she had left him in body and spirit. As long as she had done it out of her own accord, it was the lowest, filthiest betrayal and disgrace she

was the greatest kindness and magnanimity he

and looked at the gradually cooling dishes on the dining

there at the dining table all night.

on the table. When she’d awakened, it was already morning,

Josephine grabbed her utensils and ate a

she changed and hailed a cab

see him in the company now.

shift in the atmosphere. Something was off. She hadn’t heard anyone talking to one another as she made her way

its usual vibrance, the current atmosphere was lifeless and dull.

day off?” Her colleague

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