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.

for the distant wind and the rustle of

from Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine

longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried

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

Lewis

decided to go back and make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found

barging into the room

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was

but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere in the building.

at the empty room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

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

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

was, undoubtedly, an excellent

Lewis might not have lost their lives if

awake multiple times in

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

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

open and saw a man’s chest

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

with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating thick smoke that filled the air.

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

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

“Don’t move.”

again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes

could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat

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

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was,

Lewis’ maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the

the branch onto the ground and looked at her.

if they were trying to

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak

She attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say.

his stance

and struggled