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.

the distant wind and the rustle of

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis

couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his

“You-”

her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was

when she could no longer resist it

after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood

and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

back and make Seth pay for everything 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

barging into the room

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the

within the building but found no

at the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find Lewis.

already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly

excellent place

have lost their lives if they’d

jolted awake multiple times in between

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

2/5

and out 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

and saw a

and raised her head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips

predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively

branches, attempting to

but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

realized that neither of them had their clothes

had been propped up 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 the harsh wind.

total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in any wind.

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

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating

branch onto the ground and

as if they were

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak

She attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other

his stance

into a ball and struggled to voice a single