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 and the rustle of the weeds

rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

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

“You-”

with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still the

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

there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them

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

Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards

before barging into the room hurriedly.

should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere

no sign of him anywhere, even after having

empty room

Seth had escaped!

time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had

the mountain, he 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 mountain

an excellent place

it meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their

awake multiple times in between from the

even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold

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wasn’t until the latter half of the night that

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s

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

twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick smoke that filled

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire

to sit up, but the hand

“Don’t move.”

that neither of them had their clothes on.

a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was

very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The

high Lewis’ body

fire flared brighter, its glow

the ground and

her own, as if they

while, Lewis spoke.

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

stance emitting a low hum of

She curled into a ball and struggled