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

the rage emanating from Lewis

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

“You-”

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

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

a long time 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

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,

frowned before barging into the room

extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was empty.

found no sign of him anywhere, even after having

room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

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

had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake

excellent place for reprieve.

might not have lost their lives

jolted awake multiple

a woolen coat, even without getting

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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

a man’s

jaw, taking in the sight of his

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

with some branches, attempting to make the

sit up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

of them had their clothes on. There was only a

with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by

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

body temperature was, she was still shivering from

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the

onto the ground and looked

her own, as if they

spoke. “You can

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

into a ball and struggled to voice a single