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.

save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

other hand, as if trying to

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

sure that there was no

behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on

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

frowned before barging into the

his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was empty.

a series of rooms within the building but found no

gazed at the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

between the cliffs were predominantly filled with

an excellent

not have lost their

long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times

woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result

2/5

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

her eyes open and saw a man’s

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

only a few dry

some branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

of them

screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded them from

in total. The few clothes

felt cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was

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

threw the branch onto the ground and

her own, as if they were trying to uncover her

while, Lewis spoke. “You

know what else to say.

his stance

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