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

emanating from Lewis dissipated

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

“You-”

other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still the

longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the

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 what!”

nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on

back and make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards

into

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be

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

the empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to

nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake winding

excellent place for reprieve.

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if

long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the

even without getting

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state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that

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

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. flickering shadows across his face.

fresh twigs with only a few dry

some branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

hand on

“Don’t move.”

looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their

makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded

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

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature

flared brighter, its glow illuminating

the

dark eyes bore into her own, as if they were

spoke. “You can

to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a single