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.

save for the distant wind and the

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

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

“You-”

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

longer resist it anymore, she let

made sure that there was no movement

spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads

pay for everything that had happened, but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he

barging into

from his extensive injuries was nowhere to

series of rooms within the building but found no sign

room

Seth had escaped!

time to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to find Lewis.

noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled

an excellent

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the

moonless nights like these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within

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her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the

saw a

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

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

some branches, attempting

up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back

“Don’t move.”

fell silent. When she looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their

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

than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance

body temperature was,

Lewis’ maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

branch onto the

her own, as if they were trying to

long while, Lewis spoke.

attempted to open her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding

that?” He narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

curled into a ball and struggled to voice a