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

Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

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

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

sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood

out, searching 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 found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting

frowned before barging into

was nowhere to be found,

building but found no sign of him anywhere,

at the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

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

he climbed up 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

undoubtedly, an excellent place

might not have lost their lives if they’d landed

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in

with nothing but a woolen coat, even

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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

jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and

a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick smoke

branches, attempting to

up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

of them had their clothes on. There was

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 the other shielded them from

not more than twenty feet in total. The

Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from

maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the

onto the ground and looked at

if they were trying

Lewis spoke.

open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say.

his stance emitting a low hum of danger.

into a ball and struggled to voice