What Separates Me and You

Chapter 190

Chapter 190 Let Her Die If That’s Her Wish

“What’s going on?” asked Conrad intuitively. He regretted it instantly.

His question made him seem dense and incompetent.

Lewis asked, “Conrad, what have you learned all these years working under me? Bootlicking?”

Conrad paused before answering, “Sorry, sir. It’s my fault. I’m too slow and didn’t

sooner.”

get

it

“I’m hanging up.” Lewis ceased speaking. He kept his phone and leaned against the railing lazily, smoking as he contemplated.

Josephine looked up and saw him smoking while leaning against the railing.

He looked troubled.

Josephine’s phone rang. She picked it up.

It was a message from an unknown number saying, “Mary Jinkins is dead.”

It was a short sentence, but it struck Josephine like lightning. She froze on the spot, forgetting

to respond.

A surge of dread overwhelmed her. She felt her blood rushing in the same direction, leaving her hands and feet numb, and she felt like they didn’t belong to her anymore.

Josephine stared at the four words. Her mind was blank. Her first thought was the message

was from a scammer.

This message was a trick from a scammer.

It must be Seth. Seth loved nothing more than deceiving her.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t stop her tears from falling.

She turned and looked at the man standing above her. With her blurred vision, she saw the man lowering his eyes to look at her.

Their gazes met and stirred up an array of emotions between them.

and he

hand and fell onto the floor with a dull

seemed forever, Josephine rose from the sofa and slowly

his indifferent eyes. Many times, she had thought that nothing in

heart sank further.

She was more so afraid of the words he might

mid-air. Both said nothing for

while, Josephine held back her tears and mustered the courage to sign, “I want to go to the

expression, as though he missed her sign

want to visit Mrs. Jinkins.”

any communication

started falling again. She couldn’t help but recall the message, and anger

stopped communicating with Lewis and returned to her bedroom in

her bag, and

Lewis standing there. He was leaning against the doorframe,

gestured, “The

said in a

Josephine looked at them,

her hand

do as I say. Now, stay at

aggressively released Josephine’s chin and said, “Don’t compel

could regain her balance, the

but the door wouldn’t

locked her in

clutched her bag and leaned against the door, slowly sliding to the floor. The more he forbade

didn’t believe the message, so she wanted to

less about it. She told herself it had

that message

he dared not step forward because he was worried he might be caught in the

smoking on

eventually heard

was on the floor, cigarette butts littering all over. Fruits

not sure of the

the kitchen door.

and Dr. Halliday’s hair

the doorway. He stared at Dr. Halliday and said, “Keep a close watch on her. I’ll cut you into

saw his

doctor recoiled and nodded

the mansion. In the car, he phoned Phineas.

few men over

know what happened. He could only

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