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 and the rustle of the weeds around them.

instantaneously, the rage emanating from Lewis dissipated

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

“You-”

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

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

for a long time and having made sure that there was no

and spread out, searching for Lewis and Josephine on the roads leading down the

the homestead, all he found were the bodies of the two bodyguards he’d left on the lookout, fighting to stay alive.

frowned before barging into the room hurriedly.

should be bedbound from his extensive injuries was

within the building but found no sign of him anywhere, even after having searched

gazed at the empty room and took a step back.

Seth had escaped!

to worry about Seth’s whereabouts. He

that the steep gorges nestled between the cliffs

undoubtedly, an excellent place

have lost their lives if

was particularly long. Josephine jolted awake multiple times

moonless nights like these, 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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drifted in and out of her trance-like state for most of the night. It wasn’t until the latter half of the night that she felt some warmth

and saw a man’s chest in front

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

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

attempting to

up, but the hand on her

“Don’t move.”

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 other shielded them from the harsh wind.

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 any

matter how high Lewis’ body temperature was, she was

brighter, its glow

the branch onto the

if they were trying to uncover her

while, Lewis spoke. “You can speak now?”

but she didn’t know what else to say. Other than sounding

narrowed his eyes, his stance emitting

heart clenched. She curled into a ball and struggled to voice a