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.

distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around them.

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

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

“You-”

hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still the

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself

having made sure that there was

Lewis and Josephine

rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on

frowned before barging into

from his extensive injuries was nowhere to

searched for Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere in

gazed at the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

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

already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place

Lewis might not have lost their lives

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in

in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would

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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 some warmth around

her eyes open and saw a

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

with only a few dry ones scattered among them.

branches, attempting to make the fire burn

hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

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

cave they were 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 any

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering

brighter, its glow illuminating

the ground and looked at her.

dark eyes bore into her own, as if they were trying to uncover her deepest

Lewis spoke. “You can

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance

She curled into a ball and struggled to voice