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 rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in the dark,

“You-”

his other hand, as if trying to

eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents of her

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 no matter

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

everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left

into the room

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

Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere,

gazed at the empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

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

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

excellent place for

and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in the

jolted awake multiple times

but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would

2/5

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

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

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

head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make

to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

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

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 the other shielded

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

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

fire flared brighter, its

threw the branch onto the ground and

as if they were trying to uncover her

Lewis spoke. “You can

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

his stance emitting a low

ball and struggled to voice a single syllable. “Cold.