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?”

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

She didn’t. She

said

eyes teared up. She reached out to tug his sleeves,

words deliberately. She just

memory was dwindling bit by bit, and she found it

would occasionally be gone from her memory only to reemerge

herself, but there was nothing she could do.

didn’t want this to

for him. It was deeply engraved in her. Even if she forgot everything, she would still love

the door, got out, and

silhouette in the rearview mirror, tears rolling down her cheeks. She wiped her tears and

on the floor, exhausted.

had forgotten where she put her notebook.

for a while before getting up and starting her search again. Finally, she found a box sitting in

the door and peered inside using the light filtering in

a pile of

she picked up the pieces of paper, struggling to identify the words. But it was too difficult for her to

felt a lump in her throat-she

out of the

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

were young, she used to cry like this if Daphne spoiled her favorite toy. She would

light. Eyes teary, Josephine looked up and saw Lewis standing before her frostily.

champagne bathrobe and looked down

met his icy gaze and slowly lowered hers. She got up to put the box back

a slender hand grabbed

it aside. The box fell to the

mercilessly sweeping the paper remnants into

was blank as she didn’t

but Lewis abruptly grabbed her wrist and pulled her

could see the fury in

suffer so miserably?” Lewis stared into her teary eyes, and his temper flared as he asked,

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