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

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in the

“You-”

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

she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried

the upper side of the cliff, after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered

and spread out, searching for Lewis

everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on

frowned before barging into the room hurriedly.

who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the

no sign of him anywhere, even after having

gazed at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

this was not the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

mountain, he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake

an excellent place for reprieve.

have lost their lives if they’d landed in the

awake multiple times in between from the cold.

moonless nights like these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would

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

saw a man’s

gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the

a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire burn

the hand on her shoulders pushed her back

“Don’t move.”

neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering her body.

a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried

total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the

high Lewis’ body

its glow illuminating the entirety

onto the ground and looked at

dark eyes bore into her own, as if

while, Lewis spoke. “You

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a