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 weeds around them.

emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

down beside her, his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her

“You-”

with his other hand, as if trying to determine if

eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away by the currents

that there was

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

when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting to stay alive.

before barging into

who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found, and the

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

the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had

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

excellent place for reprieve.

it meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in the water.

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

a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold

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state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s

traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed

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 thick smoke

branches, attempting to make the

but the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering

side. One side of it was being dried by the

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

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering

flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

branch onto the ground

as if they were trying to

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

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a low hum of

into a ball and struggled to