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.

wind and the

rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

down beside her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his gaze remained locked on her face.

“You-”

his other hand, as if trying to determine

drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore,

for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind

nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and

he rushed back to the

barging into the room

extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

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

empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

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

he 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 winding its way around the mountain ranges.

excellent place for reprieve.

Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in the water.

particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the cold.

moonless nights like these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a

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

a

from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly

only a few dry ones scattered among them. The

was fiddling with some branches, attempting

hand on her shoulders pushed her back down.

“Don’t move.”

looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin

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

twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on

No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she

the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

threw the branch onto the ground and looked at

into her own, as if they

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak

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

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

curled into a ball and struggled to