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

Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

touched her cheek with his other hand, as

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

there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them below! We must find them both no matter

spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the mountain.

when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d

into

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

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

at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

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

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

excellent place for reprieve.

that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the

coat, even without getting drenched, would

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out of 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.

and saw a

to his jaw, taking

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

some branches, attempting to make the fire

but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

looked down again, she realized that neither of them had

the branches he 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

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

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

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of

threw the branch onto the

as if they were trying to uncover

while, Lewis spoke. “You

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

stance emitting

curled into a ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.