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.

quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around them.

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

on her face. Even though he couldn’t make

“You-”

as if trying to

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

was no movement below, Conrad stood and

for Lewis and Josephine on the roads

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

into the

his extensive injuries was

building but found no sign of him anywhere,

empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

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

nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with

excellent place for reprieve.

might not have lost their lives if they’d

long. Josephine jolted awake multiple

coat, even without getting drenched, would result

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the night. It wasn’t until the

and saw a man’s chest in front of her.

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

fueled by fresh twigs with only a

attempting to make the fire

to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

that neither of them had their clothes

he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from

than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in any

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

flared brighter, its glow

the branch onto the ground and looked

her own, as if they were trying to uncover

a long while, Lewis spoke.

but she didn’t know what else

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

a ball and struggled to voice