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 of

rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along

gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her

“You-”

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

longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the

and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them below! We must find them

nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads

to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards

frowned before barging into the

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

a series of rooms within the building but found no sign

at the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s

cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place

and Lewis might not have lost their lives

jolted awake multiple times in between from the cold.

woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an

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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

saw a man’s chest

taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast.

turned her head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively

branches, attempting

up, but the hand

“Don’t move.”

that neither of them had their clothes on. There

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

twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly,

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

flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the

the ground and looked

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

spoke.

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

stance emitting a low hum of danger.

She curled into a ball and struggled