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.

for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around

from Lewis dissipated along with the wind.

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

“You-”

his other hand, as if trying

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

of the cliff, after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement

behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two

barging into the room

be bedbound from his extensive injuries was

the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched

room and

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still

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

excellent place for reprieve.

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have

awake multiple times

woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour

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

open and saw a man’s chest

from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast. flickering shadows across his face.

a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The

some branches, attempting to make the fire burn

to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

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

One side of it was

feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely letting in

No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was,

Lewis’ maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow

branch onto the ground and looked

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

while, Lewis spoke. “You can

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

that?” He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low hum of danger.

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.