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.

wind and the rustle of the

emanating from Lewis

on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features

“You-”

with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was still

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

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

and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the

before barging into the

extensive injuries was

no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost

the empty room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

mountain, he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were

an excellent place for

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in the

awake multiple times in between from the cold.

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

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

and saw a man’s chest in

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. flickering shadows across

fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the

but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only

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

twenty feet in total. The few

Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering

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

the branch onto the ground

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

Lewis spoke. “You can

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

his stance emitting

She curled into a ball and struggled to