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.

save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

face. Even though he couldn’t

“You-”

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

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

ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad

him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the

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

frowned before barging into the

injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building

but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere

room and took a step

Seth had escaped!

this was not the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were

excellent

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

night was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between

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

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

and saw a man’s chest in front of her.

taking in the sight of his

predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a few dry ones scattered among them. The fire appeared relatively small, emanating

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to

tried to sit up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt

screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other

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

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

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

the ground and looked at her.

her own, as if they were trying to

while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low

She curled into a ball and struggled to voice