What Separates Me and You

Chapter 244 Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself

As he had expected, the bedroom was empty with no signs of Josephine.

Mrs. Larson and Mrs. White stood nervously behind him, their hearts pounding as they stared at Lewis’

back.

Lewis turned around and glared at them coldly, asking, “Where did she go?”

Mrs. Larson said with difficulty, “If we had known where she went, wouldn’t we have… found her

already?”

After that, Lewis’ eyes darkened. Mrs. Larson didn’t dare to utter another word.

“What’s the use of hiring either of you?”

Lewis told them icily before turning to the study. He turned on the surveillance camera and saw how

Josephine stepped out of the house anxiously, waited for a car for twenty minutes, then got into the car

and left.

He reached for his phone and called Conrad.

Knowing that Josephine had gone missing again, Conrad’s heart thumped furiously against his chest.

Who was it this time that took her away?

After receiving some instructions, Conrad drove his car along the street in search of her.

Just as Lewis left the house, he bumped into Dr. Halliday, who was rushing over to the Styx Mansion

with a medical box.

At the gate, he was blocked by Lewis’ car. Taken aback, he quickly walked over to greet Lewis.

“Mr. Alvarez, I’m here for Miss. Vance’s medical treatment.”

Lewis only spared him a glance. He said with a slightly angry tone, “She’s missing.”

Dr. Halliday widened his eyes in shock. “Huh? Where did she go?”

When Lewis shot him another look, Dr. Halliday snapped back to reality, feeling a strong urge to slap

himself for his momentary lapse of judgment.

If Lewis had known where she went, would he still say that she was missing?

Dr. Halliday admonished himself inwardly for his stupidity. Then, he stammered, “May- Maybe she got

lost.”

He had mentioned this before. Many people with this exact disease would go missing, and there would

be no more news of them. People wouldn’t know if they were alive or dead.

“I’ll search for her with you.”

Lewis didn’t listen. He drove off his car, leaving Dr. Halliday behind to breathe in the exhaust

smoke.

Josephine was curled up in a corner. In a daze, she thought she could hear someone speaking.

She opened her eyes with difficulty and looked toward the metal bars. The wooden plank had been

moved away, allowing bright rays of light to shine in.

Josephine raised her arm to block out the sunlight. Her lifeless eyes looked through the gaps between

her fingers as someone moved around outside.

It was a woman.

That woman was carrying a plate of food as she crouched and banged at the metal door. “Hey, young

madam, it’s time for food.”

Although she was calling Josephine “young madam,” there was not the slightest hint of respect in her

tone. In fact, it was full of contempt and hatred.

Josephine propped herself up from the ground with great effort. She held onto the sidewall as she

walked to the door and looked up.

She saw a maid standing outside, and the latter was slightly taken aback when she saw Josephine.

Josephine’s white puffer jacket was all dirty. Her hair was in a mess, and debris was all over her face

and nose. But all of these couldn’t hide how attractive her eyes were.

The light shining on her made her eyes look even clearer and purer. Her discomposure didn’t make her

ugly at all. In fact, she still looked beautiful in a way.

She looked to be the kind of person who would be subjected to bullying.

The maid moved her eyes away and pushed the plate through the gap.

“Here you go.”

Josephine raised her arms to receive it. But before she could do so, the maid had released her grip,

and the plate fell onto the ground.

“Bang!” The plate was smashed into pieces, with food splayed all over the ground.

Josephine could only stand there in bewilderment.

The maid pretended to be shocked when she said, “Oops, I’m sorry, young madam. My hand slipped.

Perhaps you could pick the food up yourself.”

Pursing her lips together, Josephine stared at the food on the ground without giving a response.

The maid merely shrugged and took the wooden plank to block the metal bars again. She then

turned and left.

Due to the maid’s hasty departure, she neglected to secure the plank in place with the wooden pole.

Consequently, Josephine could effortlessly push it aside, despite the mud still holding it in position.

She could only make a gap as wide as her finger. Light shone on her face once again. Looking outside,

she saw nothing but grass shoots and mashed soil.

Josephine just stood there, bathing in that small ray of light.

She didn’t pick up nor look at the food on the ground.

After a long wait, the sunlight went away, and the sky turned gray and cloudy. It was quiet in the garden

when darkness loomed over the world once again.

Lewis had searched for Josephine around Elysium for a whole day, but there was still no sight of her. It

was as if she had disappeared into thin air.

It started raining again outside.

Conrad reported to him as he stood in the study, “That car had a fake car plate number, so we can’t

track it. The person behind this is definitely an experienced one, seeing how they avoided the

surveillance cameras. The car plate number was changed again after that, so tracking the car down is

hard.”

As he spoke, a thought suddenly came to him, prompting him to ask, “Has Madam been. kidnapped?”

Lewis’ eyes were fixated on his laptop, his damp and messy hair falling on his forehead.