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-

suspicion arose within her mind. She turned to Seth, hoping to

from him.

lighting those dratted candles calmly, entirely fixated on the flickering firelight in the darkness that seemed to have descended around them.

have been

when she

hoping, constantly waiting for her parents to return and take her home. She had thought that they would find her again. One day she told herself. One day, she

–

a home to return to, that the people she loved were waiting for her there.

rotting corpses below the two headstones in front of her

home

complacency you seemed to have greatly

There’s no hope left for you to be anything but a

fate to have me indebted to you

in a daze. She was unable to speak

longer had a home, that the home she’d been dreaming of, her parents-they were all gone.

and dreams shattered in the swirling ashes from the candles was truly merciless.

cried. He rearranged the candles

to

she yearned to carve his appearance into her bones, if

what it took for her to

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

she signed, “Who are

beholding her fingers that’d long frozen stiff

I? That’s for you to find out.”

stared deeply at his profile, but only his lips and the tip of his nose were visible to her through the curtain of

previous

said something about being

then he couldn’t be her brother,

her brother, who

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

slightest inkling of information from the agonizing assault of her own mind,

course, her memories with

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

wanted to know who he was-she needed to know how

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