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.

air became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

couldn’t

“You-”

hand, as if

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents

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 them below! We must find them both

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

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

barging into the

his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the

for Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign

the empty room

Seth had escaped!

worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to

up the mountain, he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with

excellent place

Josephine and Lewis might not have

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

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

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of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt

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

taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast. flickering

a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire

hand on her shoulders pushed her back down.

“Don’t move.”

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

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

in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in

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

flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

onto the ground and

eyes bore into her own, as if

Lewis spoke.

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to