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.

was no answer from her, and he staggered over with his heart pounding in fear.

he broke into a run and shouted, "Edward, go up and get help

his way 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 scampered over, urging, "Hurry! Get down

they made their way down with a stretcher.

fifteen minutes later, they returned with the stretcher, Nicholas following

top, he swiftly undid the rope around him and dashed to Tessa's

was void of color as she lay on the stretcher, and he couldn't tell if her chest was still moving. Both of these combined threw him into a state of peril.

and his extended hand hung mid-air as he hesitated to place it on her.

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

team

ordered, "I want her to

protest at his manhandling and merely nodded. Then, she placed the medical box down,

couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

heard her clearly and

may have tumbled down the cliff, but she didn't suffer any fractures. Most of her wounds are grazes, showing that she tried her best to reduce the velocity as she went," the doctor answered and started

the sight of Tessa's palms which were covered in injuries. They were an utter bloody mess. It looked as though her skin had practically been peeled off, which shocked

efforts as they made their way

felt his heart throb in pain as it filled with worry.