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

and she was forced to look at him. Anger flickered in his eyes as soon as her

waist and forcefully turned her around, pressing

know

too?” His breath fanned her ear. His voice was low, but every syllable he uttered pierced her heart

“Do you

for this trick of yours?”

was pressed flat against the wall. She tried to shake her head as she felt a chilling sensation spreading through her

She forced the syllables out of her mouth.

“No, what?”

face was red, and yet there was no way she could speak a complete sentence no matter how hard

“Yes or no?”

“No-

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

unbearably ugly accusations, the tears in

not enough to

shook her head frantically. She turned with

“Ea–ea–eat.”

his mouth curved upward. There was a hint of mockery

to

back.

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Chapter 151 Scorn

tears.

that flash of scorn in his eyes

He despised her.

in the cave, he had restrained the madness in his eyes and

had been a brief moment of wonder or even curiosity as he discovered for the first time that she could

choice she had made in the homestead. It could never excuse

toward Seth instead.

the things

that she had left him in body and spirit. As long as she had done it out of her own

after her and jumping off the cliff after her was the greatest

went downstairs and looked at the gradually cooling dishes on

at the

she fell asleep with her head on the table. When she’d awakened,

her utensils and ate a few bites of the

hailed a cab to the

supposed she could only see

arrived, she sensed an acute shift in the atmosphere. Something was off. She hadn’t heard anyone talking to one

vibrance, the current atmosphere was lifeless and dull.

you take another day off?” Her colleague smiled and greeted

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