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.

instantly, save for the distant wind

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

though he couldn’t make out her features in

“You-”

hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine

longer resist it anymore, she let

that there was no movement below, Conrad

Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the mountain.

happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies

before barging into

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building

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

the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

not the time to worry about Seth’s

he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were

undoubtedly, an excellent

might not have lost their lives if they’d

was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple

valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour

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for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around her.

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s chest in front

jolted in shock and 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

eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick smoke that filled

branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back down.

“Don’t move.”

she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was

the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat

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

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

its glow illuminating the

the ground and looked

if they were

long while, Lewis spoke.

know what else to say.

his eyes, his stance emitting

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a