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-

within her mind. She turned

from him.

candles calmly, entirely fixated on the flickering firelight in the darkness that seemed to have descended around them. The smoke from the flames stung her eyes, but she did not look

all the strength she possessed seemed to have been drained, her body crumbling weakly

five when she first visited the Alvarez

home. She had thought that they would find her again. One day she told

–

to, that the people she loved

that the cold, rotting corpses below the two headstones in front of her were

no home after

remember this 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 only do you never seem to remember

you to be anything but a waste of

have me indebted to you

daze. She was unable to speak through her tears, and she hardly understood his words.

that the home she’d been dreaming of, her parents-they were

and dreams shattered in the swirling ashes from the

to his credit, had completely calmed down as she cried. He rearranged the candles once more

turning to

she yearned to carve his

it took for her to remember

to place this man’s

“Who-” she signed, “Who

his face upon beholding her fingers that’d long frozen stiff

for

fueled her distress. Josephine stared deeply 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

something about being indebted to the

them, then he couldn’t be her brother, could

he wasn’t her brother, who

her in to this man’s. identity and who he was to her. But even as her head throbbed incessantly, even

of her own mind, but… nothing. There was nothing in her mind-nothing but endless,

course, her memories with

grabbed Seth’s arm once more. Her eyes

he was-she needed to know how

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