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.

keep anything I said in mind anyway.

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

to tell him she didn’t forget his words deliberately. She just couldn’t remember,

she found it more difficult to remember those little things as days went by.

held dear would occasionally be gone from her memory only to

there was nothing she could do.

this to

deeply engraved in her. Even if

her. He opened the door, got out, and entered the

and hurriedly got out of the car. She ran into the storage room

she sat on the

had forgotten where she put her notebook.

sat on the floor for a while before getting up and starting

the door and peered inside using the light filtering in

saw a pile of torn-up papers.

picked up the pieces of paper, struggling to identify the words.

helplessly as she felt a lump in

out of the

saw Josephine sitting on the floor, hugging the box and crying her heart

cry like this if Daphne spoiled

looked up and saw Lewis

wore a champagne bathrobe and looked down at her

slowly lowered hers. She got up to

a slender hand grabbed

the box away and hurled it aside. The box fell to the floor with

sweeping the paper

Her mind was blank as

intuitively wanted to pick them up, but Lewis

see the fury in his

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

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