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 them.

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

Even though he couldn’t make out her features

“You-”

held her hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to

no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get

upper side of the cliff, after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them

and spread out, searching for Lewis

to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting to

frowned before barging into the room hurriedly.

was nowhere to be found, and

in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him

empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

this was 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 colossal white snake winding its

undoubtedly, an excellent place

Lewis might not have lost their lives if

long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from

in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result

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

her eyes open and saw a man’s

head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of

her head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating

with some branches, attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their

remaining clothes had been propped up with 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

in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in any wind.

Lewis’ body

brighter, its glow

branch onto the ground and

dark eyes bore into her own, as if they were trying

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You

know what else to say. Other than sounding a few syllables, she couldn’t exactly speak

stance emitting a low hum of danger.

ball and struggled to voice a single syllable. “Cold.