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 Seth,

from him.

calmly, entirely fixated on the flickering firelight in the darkness that seemed to have descended around them. The smoke from the flames stung her

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

she first

she did remember constantly hoping, constantly waiting for her parents to return and take her home. She had thought that they would

–

to,

didn’t, that the cold, rotting corpses

home after

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 anything, but you also forget things faster than you could register them.

There’s no hope left for you to be anything

asked fate to have me indebted

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

no longer had a home, that the home she’d been dreaming

hopes and dreams shattered in the

down as she cried. He rearranged the candles once more when a pair of arms clasped around his wrist.

stilled, turning to look at

intently, as if she yearned to

what it took for her

time nor effort allowed her to place this man’s identity in

dropped helplessly. “Who-” she signed, “Who

upon beholding her fingers that’d long frozen stiff was

That’s for you to

fueled her distress. Josephine stared deeply at his profile, but only his lips and the

recalled his previous words

being indebted to the

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

he wasn’t her brother, who was he?

head throbbed incessantly, even as she clutched her hair

information from the agonizing assault of her own mind, but… nothing. There was nothing

course, her

teeth through the pain and grabbed

who he was-she needed to know how they were

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