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

rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with

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

“You-”

his other hand, as if trying

when she could no longer resist it anymore,

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

searching for Lewis and Josephine

that had happened, but when he rushed back to the

frowned before barging into the

person who should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

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

empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s

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

excellent place for

not have

was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple

moonless nights like these, merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting

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night. It wasn’t until the

open and saw a man’s chest in

from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing

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

attempting to make the

up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

of them had

could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being dried by the heat from the fire, and the other shielded them from the harsh

total. The

high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering

its glow illuminating the entirety of the cave.

branch onto the ground

her own, as if

while, Lewis spoke. “You can

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

He narrowed his eyes, his stance

and struggled to voice a single syllable. “Cold.