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.

for the distant wind and the rustle of

Lewis dissipated along with the

beside her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out

“You-”

hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if

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

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

searching for Lewis and Josephine

rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the

barging into the

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere

within the building but found no

gazed at the empty room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

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

had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white

excellent

it meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d

long. Josephine jolted awake

even without getting drenched, would result in catching

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

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

taking in

predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few

with some branches, attempting to make

sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her

“Don’t move.”

again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt

branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One

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

maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its

the branch onto the ground

dark eyes bore into her own, as if they

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

She curled into a ball and