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.

air became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle

Lewis dissipated

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

“You-”

her hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to determine if she was

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

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 and Josephine

back to the homestead, all he

into the room hurriedly.

his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

for Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched

at the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s

the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake winding its way around the mountain

excellent

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

awake

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

2/5

wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she

a man’s chest in

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

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

with some branches, attempting

but the hand

“Don’t move.”

she realized that neither of them had

the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded them from

they were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them

felt cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still

the fire flared brighter, its glow

the ground and looked at

into her own, as if they were

spoke. “You

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

stance emitting a low hum of danger.

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to