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

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis

he couldn’t make out her

“You-”

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

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

on the ground for 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 both no

and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

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

into the room

injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building

no sign

the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

was not the time to worry about

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for reprieve.

that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost

awake multiple times in between from the cold.

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

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night. It wasn’t

her eyes open and saw a man’s chest

in shock and raised her head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight

blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered

some branches, attempting to make

the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

silent. When she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes

forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded

they were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on

No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from the

brighter, its

the ground and looked at her.

bore into her own, as if they

Lewis spoke. “You

attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

curled into a ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.