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

emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

he couldn’t make out her features in the dark,

“You-”

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

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

was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for them below! We must find them both

for Lewis and Josephine on the roads

decided to go back and 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

into the room

injuries was nowhere to be found, and the building was

found no sign of him anywhere, even

the empty room and took

Seth had escaped!

was not the time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find

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

was, undoubtedly, an excellent place

have lost their lives if they’d landed in

awake multiple times in between

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

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

a man’s chest

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

blazing 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

tried to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

of them had their

a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried

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

body temperature was, she was still shivering

flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety

branch onto the

own, as if

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You can

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

eyes, his stance emitting a

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