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.

for the distant wind and the rustle

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

sat down beside her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in

“You-”

her hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still the

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself

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

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

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, fighting

barging into the room hurriedly.

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to

building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched

room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

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

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

Lewis might not have lost

was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the

in the valley 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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wasn’t until the latter half of the

eyes open and saw a

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

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

branches, attempting to

hand on her

“Don’t move.”

them had their clothes on. There was only a thin

with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side

than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed

Lewis’ body temperature was, she was

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

the ground

into her own, as if

Lewis spoke. “You

She attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables, she couldn’t exactly

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low hum of

into a ball and