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

emanating from Lewis dissipated

face. Even though he couldn’t make out her features in

“You-”

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

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

side of the cliff, after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search for

Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the mountain.

back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left

barging into the room hurriedly.

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

series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere

at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still

he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled

excellent place for reprieve.

might not have lost their lives

awake multiple times

these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour or

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It wasn’t

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s chest

upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that cast. flickering

head, 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 that filled

attempting to make the fire burn brighter.

sit up, but the hand on her shoulders

“Don’t move.”

When she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had

crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the

very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on

Lewis’ body temperature was, she

fire flared brighter, its

onto the

as if they were trying to uncover her deepest secrets.

while, Lewis spoke. “You can

she didn’t know what else to say. Other than

stance emitting

clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice