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

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

“You-”

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

exhausted. Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore,

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

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

pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found

barging into the room

injuries was nowhere to be found, and

within the building but found no sign of him anywhere,

gazed at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

this was not the time to worry about

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

excellent place for

have lost their lives if they’d landed

awake multiple times

the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even

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

forced her 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 cast. flickering

with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively

was fiddling with some branches, attempting

up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back down.

“Don’t move.”

she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a

the side. One side

twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them

high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering

maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow

branch onto the ground

eyes bore into her own, as if they were trying

long while, Lewis spoke.

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

his eyes, his stance

a ball and struggled