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.

air became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind

from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

though he couldn’t

“You-”

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

exhausted. Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let

cliff, 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

him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis

when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting to stay alive.

into the room

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere

Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of

the empty room

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s whereabouts.

that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place for

Lewis might not have lost

night was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in

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

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

a

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

head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick

with some branches, attempting to

up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

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

One side of it was being dried by the heat from the

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

how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she

the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the

onto the ground and looked at

as if they were trying to uncover her deepest

Lewis spoke. “You can speak

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

his stance emitting a low

a ball and struggled to voice a single syllable. “Cold.