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.

no answer from her, and he staggered over with his heart

go up and get help down

didn't even waste 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

team hastened their efforts as they made their way down with a stretcher.

minutes later, they returned with the stretcher, Nicholas following

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

lay on the stretcher, and he couldn't tell if her chest was still moving.

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

a sigh of relief upon

team bolted to them, carrying a medical case.

the sight of the doctor, Nicholas grabbed the poor woman and ordered, "I want her to be fine before we reach the

his manhandling and merely nodded. Then, she placed the medical box down, planning to

started her examination, she couldn't

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

didn't suffer any fractures. Most of her wounds are grazes, showing that she tried

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 everyone who

made their

his heart throb in pain as it filled with