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

rage emanating from Lewis

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

“You-”

her cheek with his other hand, as if trying

when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let

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

for Lewis

rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies

barging into the room

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

Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost

gazed at the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

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

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

was, undoubtedly, an excellent

might not have lost their lives if they’d landed

Josephine jolted awake multiple times

but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour or less.

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the night. It wasn’t until the

open and saw a man’s chest in front of

head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast.

head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the

but the hand

“Don’t move.”

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

had been propped up with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being

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

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

the fire flared brighter, its

branch onto the

own, as if they were trying to

Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

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

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to