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.

quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds

from Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

touched her cheek with his other hand, as

exhausted. Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents of her

that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search

bodyguards behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine

the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d

into

extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was

of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere,

at the empty room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

not the time to worry about Seth’s

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.

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

it meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost

jolted awake multiple times

like these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour or less.

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

her eyes open and saw a man’s chest

her head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast.

with only a few dry ones

with some branches, attempting to make the fire

tried to sit up, but the hand

“Don’t move.”

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

the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by

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

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was,

the fire flared brighter, its glow

threw the branch onto the ground and looked at her.

if they were trying to uncover

spoke. “You can speak

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

that?” He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low

into a ball and struggled