What Separates Me and You

Chapter 337

Chapter 337 Let This Be Your Punishment

Lewis did not react. His stance remained firm, unblinking.

Josephine, on the other hand, was greatly panicked. She rushed forward and grabbed Seth’s forearm, shaking her head frantically.

Her franticness coaxed a sneer from him, his bone-deep resentment awakened by her concern for that man’s safety.

“What did you find?” Lewis asked suddenly.

Seth’s gaze was cool. “Why should I tell you?”

Lewis raised his arm, pushing his dagger away. “It’s getting late. Let’s finish up here.”

Dissatisfaction coated Seth’s every move, even as he sheathed his dagger angrily. He yanked Josephine toward him, pushing her in front of the tombstone.

Josephine staggered all the way to where Seth wanted her, the photographs stark in her vision. Compared to the foreignness she had felt earlier, an indescribable emotion she couldn’t quite identify seized her.

Her chest felt unusually tight.

Lewis watched their silhouettes silently, turning to walk away.

He found an abandoned pavilion and leaned against its pillar, igniting a cigarette as he lost himself in his thoughts.

Meanwhile, Seth knelt in front of the tombstone and gestured for Josephine to come closer.

“Kneel here,” he said in a low voice as he lit a few candles.

Josephine frowned, confusion marring her features.

Seth, however, was entirely preoccupied with the task at hand.

“Can’t you read?” he said distractedly.

It was then that she turned her attention to the inscriptions carved on the headstones. Joseph and Elizabeth Vance, it read.

Vance-

Her eyes widened abruptly, and she leaned closer to examine the man’s photograph. Vaguely, she thought she felt a familiar sense of recognition between those brows.

Her breath quickened.

Could it be-

Could he be-

her mind. She turned to

from him.

seemed to have descended around them. The smoke from the flames stung her

she possessed seemed to have been drained, her body

five when she first visited the Alvarez

her parents to return and take her home. She had thought that they would find her again.

–

still had a home to return to, that the people she loved were

she didn’t, that the cold, rotting corpses below the two headstones in front

no home after

yourself. I wanted to see the regret on your face, to see you pay for the years of complacency you seemed to have greatly enjoyed,” he jeered. “Must be nice to be you. Not

to be anything but a

fate to have me indebted to you Vances.”

unable

home, that the home she’d

her hopes and dreams shattered in the swirling ashes

cried. He rearranged the candles once

to

at his face intently, as if she yearned to carve

her to remember who he was.

to place this man’s identity in the cavernous space of her mind.

“Who-” she

resulting smile that graced his face upon beholding her fingers that’d long frozen stiff was more

That’s for you

at his profile, but only his lips and the tip of his nose were visible to her through the curtain of hair that fell over his

previous words desperately.

something about being indebted

couldn’t be her brother, could he?

if he wasn’t her brother, who

head throbbed incessantly, even as she clutched her hair and leafed through the remains of

from the agonizing assault of her own mind, but… nothing. There was nothing in her mind-nothing but endless, persistent

course, her memories

teeth through the pain and grabbed Seth’s arm once more.

who he was-she needed to know how they

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