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.

quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the

Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

he couldn’t make out her features in the dark,

“You-”

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

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by

after laying 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 matter

Lewis and Josephine on

decided to go back and make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found

into the room

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

the building but found no

empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

time to worry about

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

excellent place for reprieve.

it meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d

jolted awake multiple

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

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for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around

and saw a man’s chest in front of

gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips

fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The

attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

but the hand on her shoulders pushed her

“Don’t move.”

again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was

remaining clothes had been propped up with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the

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

body temperature was, she was still shivering from the

Lewis’ maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of

the ground

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

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You

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

eyes, his stance emitting a low

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled