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 of

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

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

“You-”

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

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

after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood

Lewis

back and make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead,

before barging into the room

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was empty.

but found no sign of him

at the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

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

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the cold.

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

eyes open and saw a man’s chest in front of

taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that

only a

branches, attempting to make

the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

When she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There

forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being

not more than twenty feet in total. The

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

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

the branch onto the ground

if they were trying to uncover her

Lewis spoke.

her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say.

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low

clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice