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.

save for the distant wind

emanating from Lewis dissipated along with the

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

“You-”

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

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

that there was

behind him nodded and spread out, searching for Lewis

the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two

barging into the room hurriedly.

injuries was nowhere to

but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched almost everywhere in

gazed at the empty room

Seth had escaped!

about Seth’s whereabouts. He still had to

he climbed up the mountain, he had already noticed that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs were predominantly filled with water, resembling a colossal white snake winding its way around the mountain

an excellent place for

might not have

awake multiple times in between from

coat, even without getting drenched, would result in

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

saw a man’s

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

a blazing fire, predominantly fueled by fresh twigs with only a

was fiddling with some branches, attempting to make the

tried to sit up, but the hand on

“Don’t move.”

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

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

The few clothes they had on them sealed the entrance tightly, barely

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

brighter, its glow illuminating the entirety of

branch onto the ground and

as if they were trying to uncover

a long while, Lewis spoke. “You

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

his eyes, his stance emitting

curled into a ball and