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.

air became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and

the rage emanating from Lewis

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

“You-”

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

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

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 them below! We must find them both no matter

Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down

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 left on the lookout,

before barging into the

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

for Seth in a series of rooms within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere in the building.

gazed at the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to

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

excellent place for

Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d landed in

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from the cold.

with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching a cold within half an hour or less.

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night. It wasn’t

her eyes open and saw a man’s chest in

his jaw, taking in the sight of his

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

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire burn

but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back

“Don’t move.”

looked down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only a thin shirt covering

side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire,

The few clothes they had on them sealed

she felt cold. No matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was

the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety

onto the ground

as if they were trying to uncover her deepest

long while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak

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

stance emitting a low

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and