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

from Lewis dissipated along with the

he couldn’t make

“You-”

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

it anymore, she let

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

Lewis and Josephine on

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

barging into

his extensive injuries was

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

room and took

Seth had escaped!

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

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

and Lewis might not have lost their lives if

night was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times in

coat, even without getting drenched, would

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of the night. It wasn’t until

saw a man’s chest in front of

shock and raised her head slowly. Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed

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

with some branches, attempting to make the

hand on her shoulders pushed

“Don’t move.”

realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There

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 fire, and the other shielded them from

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

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

its

branch onto the ground and

own, as if they

spoke. “You can

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

eyes, his stance emitting

into a ball and struggled to voice