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.

he staggered over with his heart pounding in

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

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.

rescue team hastened their efforts as they made their

the stretcher, Nicholas following

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

tell if her chest was still moving. Both of these combined threw him into a

terrified that she was no longer breathing, and his extended hand hung mid-air as he

out a sigh of relief upon feeling the

came with the rescue team bolted to them,

poor woman and ordered, "I want her to be fine before

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

she couldn't

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

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

They were an utter bloody mess. It looked as though her skin had practically been peeled off, which

team hastened their efforts as they made their

he felt his heart throb in pain