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.

instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle of the weeds around them.

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

his gaze pinned on her face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in the dark, his gaze remained locked on her face.

“You-”

held her hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as if trying to

was exhausted. Her eyelids drooped, and when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away

that there was

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

make Seth pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout,

into the room hurriedly.

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

in a series of rooms within the building but found no

at the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

this was not the time to worry about Seth’s

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between

these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would

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

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

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

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

branches, attempting to

up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her

“Don’t move.”

neither of them had

propped up with the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it

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

body temperature was, she was still

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety

the branch onto the ground

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

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting a

She curled into a ball and struggled