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

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along

his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in

“You-”

her cheek with his other hand, as if trying

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

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

out, searching for Lewis

everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the

frowned before barging into the

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

a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of

the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

was not the time to worry about Seth’s

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

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place

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

awake multiple

standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half

2/5

for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s chest

shock and raised her head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in

her head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick smoke that filled the air.

branches, attempting to

but the hand on her shoulders pushed her

“Don’t move.”

them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering her body.

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

were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they

high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from the

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the

the branch onto the ground and

as if

while, Lewis spoke. “You can

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

his stance emitting a

ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.