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.

quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

down beside her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his gaze remained locked

“You-”

as if trying to determine

when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the

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

spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on

that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting to stay alive.

barging into the

extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was

Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after

the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

to worry about

the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake winding its way around

excellent place for reprieve.

have lost their lives if

awake multiple times

even without getting drenched, would result in catching a

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of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around her.

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

gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast. flickering shadows

upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a

was fiddling with some branches, attempting

sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back

“Don’t move.”

fell silent. When she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering her

screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat

not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in any wind.

cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from

maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety

onto the ground and looked

her own, as if they

while, Lewis spoke.

didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables, she couldn’t exactly speak

eyes, his stance emitting

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.