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.

distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around

emanating from Lewis dissipated along

couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his gaze remained locked on her

“You-”

hand, as if trying to

could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents of her exhaustion.

for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below,

him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

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

before barging into

from his extensive injuries was

no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere

empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

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

gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their

awake multiple times in between from

woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an

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drifted in and out of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until

and saw a man’s

gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast. flickering

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

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make

to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

them had their clothes on. There was only

crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of

more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed

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

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

threw the branch onto the ground

own, as if they were trying to uncover her

long while, Lewis spoke. “You

attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables, she couldn’t exactly speak

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

a ball and struggled to voice a single