Always Been Yours

The men did as Edward instructed while he frantically searched for another rope and went after Nicholas instead of standing around.

Meanwhile, Nicholas carefully descended the cliff, looking for Tessa and shouting her name as he went.

"Tessa!"

Even though he knew that the likelihood of getting an answer wasn't high, he wasn't going to give up, and just like that, he searched for her by going down the cliff little by little until he discovered a clue on a big rock—two drops of blood.

Once he saw that, he quickly looked around.

At the same time, he instructed Edward to help him look around. "Tessa may have fallen from here because I found some blood here. Go and look over there. Let me know once you discover anything."

"Okay. Be careful, President Sawyer," Edward reminded and went in the other direction.

And so, both of them started searching along the trail of blood. Finally, Nicholas found Tessa lying motionless in the bushes and surrounded by blood stains. The sight was such a shock to him that he almost stopped breathing.

"Tessa…" he called out tremulously.

from her, and he staggered over with his

he broke into a run and shouted, "Edward, go up and get help down here! Quickly!"

up the cliff. Once he was there, he was so relieved to see that the rescue team had arrived. Nonetheless, he knew that now wasn't the time as he

they made their way down

they returned with the stretcher, Nicholas following closely behind.

undid the rope around him and dashed to

stretcher, and he couldn't tell if her chest was still moving. Both of these combined threw

breathing, and his extended hand hung mid-air as

he let out a sigh of relief upon feeling the warmth of her

came with the rescue team bolted to them,

doctor, Nicholas grabbed the poor woman and ordered, "I

gravity of the situation, so she didn't protest at his manhandling and merely nodded.

she started her examination, she couldn't help but gasp

heard her clearly and asked in concern,

tumbled down the cliff, but she didn't suffer any fractures. Most of her wounds are grazes, showing that she tried her

winced at the sight of Tessa's palms which were covered in injuries. They were an utter bloody mess. It looked as though

made their way

he felt his heart throb in pain