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 and the rustle of

emanating from Lewis dissipated along

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

“You-”

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

resist it anymore, she let herself get

and having made sure that there was no movement below,

searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the mountain.

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, fighting to stay

before barging into

extensive injuries was nowhere to be found,

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

at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

not the time to worry about

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

excellent place

and Lewis might not have lost

long. Josephine 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 a cold within half an

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

forced her eyes open and saw a man’s

upward, gliding from his chest to his jaw, taking in the sight of his

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

fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the fire

tried to sit up, but the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

down again, she realized that neither of them had their clothes on. There was

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

cave they were in was very small, not more than twenty feet in total. The few clothes they had on

matter how high Lewis’ body

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

the branch onto the ground and looked at

as if they were trying to uncover her deepest secrets.

long while, Lewis spoke.

know what else to say.

stance emitting a

ball and struggled to voice a single syllable.