What Separates Me and You

Chapter 174

Chapter 174 You Were Too Rash

Josephine was stunned. Then, she immediately opened the door, hopped in, and put on her

seatbelts.

Lewis didn’t say anything as he reversed the car.

The rain had stopped, but the weather was still depressing. Josephine’s hands and feet were icy and numb after being in the hotel all night.

The window was open. The breeze brought along a faint hint of alcohol.

Josephine was worried. Lewis drank alcohol, yet he was driving.

She dared not utter a sound. She glanced at him and looked elsewhere, the breeze slapping against her face.

Josephine slowly inched her finger toward the control and closed the window, keeping the frosty air out.

They reached Styx Mansion. After he parked the car, Josephine reached out and tugged his sleeve.

Lewis looked at her silently, but Josephine could feel the cold air he emitted.

She signed, “Do you want to bathe? I’ll get the bath ready.”

Lewis didn’t reply. He looked away from her and pulled out a cigarette. Then, emotionlessly, he asked, “You’d listen to everyone else except for me, huh?”

Josephine paused. She shook her head and tried to sign, but he wasn’t looking at her.

She stared at his side profile-he was upset. She opened her mouth and struggled to say, “I…w -was…worried…”

He listened to her without a word this time, but she didn’t know if he understood.

Shortly, he finished his cigarette and threw the butt out. Then, he glanced at her.

“Do you

Conrad?”

telling you you didn’t have to pay heed to anyone else besides me and

shook her head. She didn’t. She truly

you won’t keep anything I said in

eyes teared up. She reached out to tug

him she didn’t forget his words deliberately.

memory was dwindling bit by bit, and she found it more difficult to remember those little things as days went

occasionally be gone

there was nothing

didn’t want this to happen.

deeply engraved in her. Even if

the door, got

rolling down her cheeks. She wiped her tears and hurriedly got out of the car. She

she sat on the

forgotten where she put her notebook.

starting her search again. Finally, she

peered inside using

pile of torn-up

paper, struggling to identify the words. But it was too difficult for her to

helplessly as she felt a lump in her throat-she had forgotten who tore

out of the

came to the storage room and saw Josephine sitting on the floor, hugging the

she used to cry like this if Daphne spoiled her favorite toy. She would hug the ruined doll and

the light. Eyes teary, Josephine looked up and saw Lewis

down at her with his arms folded.

icy gaze and slowly lowered hers. She got

hand

react, Lewis snatched the box away and hurled it aside. The box fell to the

sweeping the paper remnants into a

absently at the scene. Her mind was blank

wanted to pick them up, but Lewis abruptly

fury in

being with me the reason you suffer so miserably?” Lewis stared into her teary eyes, and his temper

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