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.

wind and the rustle of the

from Lewis

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

“You-”

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

exhausted. Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it

cliff, after laying on 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

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

decided to go back and make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he

barging into

bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building

no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost

at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

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

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

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place for reprieve.

Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d

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

even without getting

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night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth

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

gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight

only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the

but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

realized that neither of them had their

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

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

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

its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

threw the branch onto the ground and looked at

bore into her own, as if they were trying

spoke. “You can speak

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low hum of danger.

She curled into a ball and struggled to voice