What Separates Me and You

Chapter 147 Let Me Hear Your Voice

Josephine gasped as she was dragged out of the water, coughing up water with every exhale.

The world spun even as she lay on the ground. She forced herself to open her vision was pitch-black.

eyes, but her

Someone was pounding her chest, salt water trickling uncontrollably from her mouth.

She didn’t know how much time had passed before the pressure in her chest built up rushed up her throat.

and

She coughed, expelling a large mouthful of water. Cold air rushed into her nose and her mouth at once. She could finally breathe smoothly again.

“Josephine, are you insane?

“Who said you could jump? Who gave you permission to fucking jump?!

“If you wanted to die so badly, why didn’t you tell me directly? I would have shot you earlier!”

Above her, a man’s voice erupted in a thunderous roar, brimming with a rage she had never witnessed before.

Josephine tried to make out the man’s features in her daze, but all she could see was darkness.

Above her, she felt water droplets dripping continuously onto her face and into her mixing with the tears that were streaming down her face.

eyes,

She raised her hand and let her senses guide her as she touched his cheek.

“Lew-Lew-”

She forced a syllable out of her throat. She had never spoken before and couldn’t voice the rest of the syllables. After trying for what seemed like an eternity, she could still only utter that one syllable despite her efforts.

The man was clearly stunned.

“What did you say?”

Josephine opened her mouth. Her breath stuck in her throat, and the sounds she uttered were completely at odds with the unfamiliar motions of her lips and tongue.

“Lou-ie-” She finally squeezed out two simple and awkward syllables after struggling intensely.

distant wind

emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t

“You-”

touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still the same person.

Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents of her exhaustion.

the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them below! We must find

nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine

had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the

before barging into the room hurriedly.

was nowhere

of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost

gazed at the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

was not the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

cliffs were predominantly

undoubtedly, an excellent

have lost their lives if they’d landed

was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the

nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an

2/5

and out of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s chest in front of her.

upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that

fueled by fresh twigs with only a few

attempting to make the fire

tried to sit up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There

with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded them from

they were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting

Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from the cold.

its glow illuminating

the branch onto the ground and looked at

bore into her own, as if they were trying to uncover her deepest secrets.

spoke. “You

blinked. She attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables,

his eyes, his stance emitting a low

clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to