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 the rustle of the weeds around them.

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

Even though he couldn’t make out her features in

“You-”

as if trying to determine if she was

drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents of her

and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered

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

to the homestead, all

into the room hurriedly.

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

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

gazed at the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

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

an excellent place for

Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their

long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times

even without getting drenched, would result in catching a

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

open and saw a man’s

gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing

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

branches, attempting to make the fire burn

tried to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering her

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

were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the

cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she

its glow illuminating the entirety of the

the branch onto the ground

into her own, as if they were trying to uncover

Lewis spoke. “You can speak

else to say. Other than sounding

his stance

and struggled to voice