What Separates Me and You

Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Could Actually Be So Heartless

“You!” Tyler was furious. “Can you stop fooling around?”

“I’m not fooling around. Are you going or not?” Avery was already sitting on the windowsill. Looking down from that height, she couldn’t help but shudder.

To be honest, Avery didn’t have the courage to jump, but she knew that this threat would work on Tyler.

“Okay, okay, I’ll go!” Tyler was really afraid that Avery would do something reckless.” Come down from the window quickly.”

Avery grinned and quickly got off the windowsill. “Go ahead, I’ll wait for your message.”

“You’re really going to be the death of me!” Tyler sighed. He was helpless when it came to his sister.

After ending the call, Tyler apologized to his client and drove to Lewis’s house.

The doors to the mansion were tightly closed, and he couldn’t see anything from inside the car. He got out and rang the doorbell, but there was still no response.

Just as he was about to leave, Avery sent him a message. It was the password to Lewis’s mansion.

After receiving the password, Tyler was caught in a dilemma. Was Avery asking him to break into Lewis’s mansion?

He hesitated for a few seconds before entering the password. The doors opened with a click.

Tyler walked into the mansion, but he did not wander upstairs. He stood in the hallway and called out for Josephine.

After that, he waited for a few minutes, but no one appeared.

Tyler turned to leave when he suddenly heard a faint thud, like the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Tyler thought it was his imagination, so he listened quietly for a while.

After a few seconds, he heard the sound again. It was much clearer this time.

Tyler strode toward the direction of the sound and finally stopped in front of a door. He called out tentatively, “Josephine?”

There was no response.

Tyler shouted a few more times and tried to turn the doorknob, but the door was locked.

“Josephine, are you in there?”

Josephine was awakened by Tyler’s voice. He sounded a little muf fled, but she knew that someone was outside the door.

A few minutes ago, Josephine was lying on the ground in a daze. Suddenly, she heard someone calling her name. Although she thought that she was just

hallucinating, Josephine reached out her hand to respond to the call. Something fell to the ground and made a loud noise.

This time, she was sure that someone was really calling out her name.

She desperately reached out and tapped on the door.

The sound was very faint, so imperceptible that Tyler thought he’d imagined it.

He called out again, “Josephine, if you’re inside, tap three times.”

Soon, he heard a very soft tap on the door.

A second tap.

However, after waiting for a while, there wasn’t a third sound.

Tyler was almost sure that there was something behind that door, but he didn’t know if it was a person or something else.

He hesitated for a moment before taking a chair and forcefully smashing the door open. As the lock fell off, the door creaked open. It took a lot of effort for him to push the door wide enough so that he could look around. It seemed to be a storage room, filled with many cardboard boxes and books.

There was a pile of (sca tt ered) books at the door. Before Tyler could enter the room, he noticed a hand underneath the pile.

His eyes narrowed, and Tyler quickly bent down and pushed the heavy books aside. Josephine was buried under the pile of fallen books.

She was curled up on the ground, her face pale as a sheet. Her whole body was drenched in cold sweat, and her disheveled hair covered her face.

Even Tyler, who didn’t want to meddle in other people’s affairs, couldn’t help but be dumbfounded at the sorry sight.

How could Lewis do such a thing?

Josephine was his wife, and she was carrying his child! How could he actually be so heartless?

Without delay, he carried Josephine in his arms and rushed out of the mansion, driving at high speed to the hospital.

Avery had called him several times, but he was only able to answer the phone after Josephine was pushed into the emergency room.

“How’s it going, Tyler? Did you manage to find her?”

Glancing at the emergency room, Tyler had to lie to prevent Avery from flipping out.” She’s fine, she’s at the mansion.”

“Then why isn’t she replying to my messages?”

“Her phone was taken by Lewis, so don’t worry about it. Just stay at home and don’t do anything reckless. I have something to attend to.”

“Hey, Ty…”

Tyler cut Avery off and hung up. He scrolled to Lewis’s number and hesitated for a moment. In the end, he ultimately decided not to call. He had no right to question Lewis as he had trespassed into his property.

Tyler waited for almost half an hour before Josephine was pushed out of the emergency room. He quickly went up to the doctor and asked, “How is she?”

The doctor replied, “She fainted from an irregular heartbeat. Luckily, she was brought here in time. What happened to her?”

Tyler didn’t know how to answer that question. He changed the topic quickly, “Is the baby okay?”

“The baby’s fine, but the mother needs complete rest. Next time, don’t let pregnant women do such vigorous activities.”

Tyler agreed with a wry smile. It was all Lewis’s doing, but now the doctor thought that Tyler was the one at fault.

On the other hand, Lewis received a notification from his phone that the doorbell and lock were activated. With a glance, he threw his phone aside.

Conrad knocked on the door and came in. Seeing that Sierra was absent, he breathed a sigh of relief and handed Lewis the documents he held in his hand.

“President Alvarez, we have found out that several countries have imposed

restrictions on our goods, claiming that there are safety issues…” Conrad trailed off when he noticed Lewis staring blankly at his computer screen. Lewis was obviously distracted and not listening to what he was saying.

“President?”

Lewis snapped back to reality, “Yes?”

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and continued, “There’s no need to go anymore.”

Conrad was puzzled at this statement when he finally recalled that Lewis had instructed him to go to the mansion after work. He nodded in reply. “Understood. Do you want to take a look at this file?”

“Leave it on the table.” Lewis leaned back and casually lit up a cigarette. Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

Conrad frowned, realizing that Lewis seemed a bit off today. Normally, he wouldn’t smoke at work.

Conrad wondered if it was because Lewis did not get any sleep and spent the whole night looking for Josephine.

He spoke up, “President Alvarez, why don’t you go back home and get some rest?”

Lewis gave Conrad a brief glance, smoke curling around his fingers. After a few minutes, he turned away and leaned back into his chair. Closing his eyes, Lewis replied, “You are excused.”

Conrad placed the file down and left. It must be because of Sierra’s absence that Lewis wasn’t in the mood for work. However, he couldn’t figure out why Lewis was so captivated by Sierra.

At the hospital, Josephine slowly regained consciousness. Staring blankly at the white ceiling, it was some time before she recalled what had happened to her.

She sat up and examined her baby bump anxiously. There were no obvious abnormalities, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Josephine didn’t know how she ended up in the hospital. Did Lewis let her out?

Thinking of how he’d heartlessly locked her up in the storage room, his frigid expression made him seem like a stranger.

Josephine didn’t want to stay long at the hospital. She got out of bed and was wondering how to get back to the mansion when Tyler came in. He had just paid Josephine’s hospital bill.

Tyler was surprised. “Why are you getting out of bed?”

Josephine reached into her pocket for her phone and realized that she must have left it at the mansion.

She tried to communicate with Tyler using sign language, but he couldn’t. understand.

Tyler gave a rough guess. “Do you want to go back?”

Although Josephine actually meant to ask how she ended up at the hospital, knowing that Tyler wouldn’t understand anything, she shrugged and nodded.

Tyler glanced at the admission slip that he had just processed and sighed. “Alright, I’ll send you home.”

He put away the receipt and drove Josephine back.

As soon as they arrived at the mansion, they both noticed a Bentley parked out front. The person in the car seemed to be waiting for someone as the engine was still running and the hind lights were lit

up.

Tyler’s expression fell when he realized that it was Lewis’s car.