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 the weeds around

the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

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

“You-”

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

when she could no longer resist it anymore, she let herself get carried away

after laying on the ground for a long time and having made sure that there was no

behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on

when he rushed back to the homestead, all

before barging into the

from his extensive injuries was

searched 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.

the empty room and took a

Seth had escaped!

worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake winding its way around

an excellent place

that Josephine and Lewis might not have lost their

Josephine jolted awake multiple times in between from

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

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for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth around

her eyes open and saw a man’s chest in front of

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

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

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire

tried to sit up, but the hand on her shoulders pushed her back down.

“Don’t move.”

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

the branches he could find, forming a crude, makeshift screen on the side. One side of it

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

high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was still shivering from the

maneuvers, the fire flared brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of the

threw the branch onto the ground and looked

own, as if they were

Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

her mouth, but she didn’t know what else to say.

stance

into a ball and struggled to voice a