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.

became quiet instantly, save for the distant wind and the rustle

Lewis dissipated along with

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

“You-”

held her hand and touched her cheek with his other hand, as

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

for a long time and having made sure that there was no movement below, Conrad stood and ordered those behind him. “Search

Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

but when he rushed back to the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two

frowned before barging into the room

bedbound from his extensive injuries was nowhere

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

gazed at the empty room and

Seth had escaped!

not the time to worry about

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

undoubtedly, an excellent place for

meant that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their lives if they’d

jolted awake multiple times in between from the cold.

merely standing in the valley with nothing but a woolen coat, even without getting drenched, would result in catching

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

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s

Her gaze traveled upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his tightly pursed lips and the dancing firelight that

her head, her eyes fell upon a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the

to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her

“Don’t move.”

realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was only

makeshift screen on the side. One side of it was being

cave 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 in

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

fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating

threw the branch onto the

dark eyes bore into her own, as if they were trying to

while, Lewis spoke. “You

know what else

his stance

a ball and struggled to voice a single