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-

turned to Seth, hoping to attain

from him.

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

to have been drained, her body crumbling weakly to the ground.

five when she first visited the Alvarez

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

–

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

now, Seth was telling her that she didn’t, that the cold, rotting corpses below the

had no home

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.

hope left for you to be anything but a waste

asked fate to have me

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

she knew was that she no longer had a home, that the

shattered in the swirling ashes from the candles

completely calmed down as she cried. He rearranged the candles once more when

turning to look

as if she yearned to carve his appearance

her to remember who he

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

she

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

am I? That’s for you to find

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

his previous words desperately.

said something about being indebted to

owed them, then he couldn’t be

if he wasn’t her brother,

to her. But even as her head throbbed incessantly, even as she clutched her hair and

tried-she really did-to glean even the slightest inkling of information from the agonizing assault of her own mind,

her

teeth through the pain and grabbed

wanted to know who he was-she needed to know how they were related.

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