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 and

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

he couldn’t make out her features in the

“You-”

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

it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the

for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad

behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the mountain.

for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of

before barging into

from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

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

empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

about

the cliffs were

an excellent place

Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in

awake multiple times in between from the

nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched,

2/5

and out of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the

her eyes open and saw a man’s chest in front of

shock and raised her 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.

her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a

attempting to make the fire burn

the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

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

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

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

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

fire flared brighter, its

onto the ground and looked at

bore into her own, as if

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a

that?” He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice