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.

answer from her, and he staggered over with his heart pounding in

and shouted, "Edward, go up and get help down here!

a single second as he had already started 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 there now!

they made

minutes later, they returned with the stretcher, Nicholas

swiftly undid the rope around him

face was void of color as she lay on the stretcher, and he couldn't tell if her chest

no longer breathing, and his extended hand

a sigh of relief

doctor who came with the rescue team bolted to them, carrying

woman and ordered, "I want

at his manhandling and merely nodded. Then, she placed the

she couldn't

heard her clearly and asked in concern, "What happened?"

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

in injuries. They were an utter bloody mess. It looked as though her

hastened their efforts as they made

saw it as well, and he felt his heart throb in pain as it filled with worry.