What Separates Me and You

Chapter 333 Love Shouldn’t Come In Shackles

Josephine shook her head. She didn’t want a present.

“What is your New Year’s resolution, then?”

She thought about it for a while before signing, “I want you to get better.”

Lewis was slightly taken aback, the intensity of his gaze deepening. “What else?”

“And to be with you forever.”

Lewis chuckled. The younger she got, the harder it was for her to hide her real thoughts. Her inclination to blurt out whatever she had in mind now amused him.

Josephine couldn’t understand the meaning behind his smile, but as he ceased to explain, she could only purse her lips and accompany him as he received his IV treatment.

She had no phone, but being by his side was hardly mundane.

Lewis switched on the TV, and she leaned against the headboard as they watched the New Year’s gala on screen.

The crackling fireworks outside were almost hypnotic by now, their incessant rhythm and the chatter on the television gradually lulling her to sleep.

Lewis switched off the lights, leaving only the white glow of the television and its muffled sound filling the room’s emptiness.

If he tilted his head at just the right angle, he could see her face through the dim lighting surrounding them both, her head resting on his shoulder as she slept soundly. The weight of her face was light on him-perhaps a result of her mindfulness of his injuries. Strands of hair fell on her cheeks as well, and he tucked them back behind her ear gently.

The next day, Gerald and Conrad came by to see the two.

Gerald carried a large fruit basket adorned in red, complete with his equally vibrant

a radiant smile on his face. “Happy New Year, Chairman Alvarez.”

outfit and

Conrad placed the breakfast he had brought on the table as well. “I just asked the doctor about your recovery, Chairman Alvarez, and he said you’re recovering well. You can return home. after a few more days of observation in the hospital.”

Lewis glanced at him briefly. “What about Seth?”

Conrad, too, was startled by his sudden question. It seemed that Seth was nowhere to be found since they’d returned from the island.

“I don’t know. Maybe he went back to Elysium?” he replied.

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though none of them could tell what

out his phone. “Let me get in touch with him.” As he

not picking up,” he reported shortly

nodded, dismissing him.

to Gerald before turning to leave the ward with the

and the streets were abuzz with life. Parades swathed the streets in vivid colors, but none of it was visible from the hospital room. Josephine leaned against the window

pulled the needle tip out and changed

waist, and pulled her into his embrace. “What’s there to see here? Come, let’s go

and shook her

what Conrad said just now? He said I could be discharged.”

did not question it any further. It

attention.

waste any more time reasoning with her. He

of the room.

of the hospital, they managed

Ecstasia.

was thick, packed to the point where any form of movement was simply impossible. It had been too long since Josephine had last been amid a crowd so raucous, so she gripped Lewis’ hand tightly, afraid that they

to his usual attire, Lewis was dressed in a loose black hoodie today, similar to the outfits worn by many other guys they’d passed on their way. Yet, his attractiveness still stood. out despite the volume of

fixed her gaze on his tall, slender figure as she followed

the both of them, granting them a swift access, devoid

of various

two of them avoided the more

were fortunate enough to snag the only two available seats when they boarded the

did not simply include young tourists but rather a few

The

her thirties and was currently explaining their next stop to them. Their conspicuously white hair and presbyopic reading glasses stood out,

were seated across from them, their hands firmly joined despite

radiating from their faces, her grip on Lewis tightening

from her hold-instead, he wrapped her hand in his and gently caressed the back

couldn’t hide her smile any longer as

knowing how

her, marriage felt beyond distant. As for dating, she couldn’t quite understand

at the elderly woman’s smile, the blatant interest on her face not unlike the other gossiping women he’d encountered in the past. He was silent for a long while before he answered,

accept his definition of

kindly, her knowing expression undeniably piercing.