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.

became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis

couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his

“You-”

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

it anymore, she

laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement

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

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

barging into the room hurriedly.

injuries was nowhere to be

found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere in the building.

empty room and

Seth had escaped!

worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to

up the mountain, he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a

undoubtedly, an excellent place for reprieve.

not have lost their lives if they’d landed in the water.

particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between

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

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drifted in and out 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

a man’s chest in front

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

fresh twigs with only a few dry

fiddling with some branches, attempting to

tried to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back

“Don’t move.”

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

find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of

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

she felt cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature

brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the

threw the branch onto the ground

her own, as if

spoke. “You can

blinked. She attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding

stance emitting a

clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled