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.

save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around them.

from Lewis

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

“You-”

hand, as if trying

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get

there was no

for Lewis

to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two

before barging into the

extensive injuries was nowhere to be

no sign of him anywhere, even after having

room

Seth had escaped!

worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

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

undoubtedly, an excellent

Lewis might not have lost their

awake multiple times in between

valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result

2/5

wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around her.

a man’s chest

taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight

eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry

with some branches, attempting to make the fire burn

up, but the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

them had their clothes on.

remaining clothes had been propped up with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it

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

high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from the

flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of

branch onto the ground and looked at her.

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

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You can

she didn’t know what else to say. Other than

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

and struggled to