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

rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her

“You-”

cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine

no longer resist it anymore, she

sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for

spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine

but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he

before barging into the

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be

series of rooms within the building but found no sign

the empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

was not the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for reprieve.

not have lost their lives if they’d landed

jolted awake multiple times in between from the

valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without

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her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around her.

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

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

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

branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

neither of them had their clothes on. There was

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 other

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

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

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

onto the ground

own, as if they

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables, she

stance emitting a low hum

into a ball and