"No need. I'm going to wait here."
There was no way that Nicholas would even bother changing because all he cared about right now was Tessa. He wasn't going to let her out of his sight for something so low on his priority list.
Edward didn't press the matter and merely waited with him in the hallway, which became as silent as the grave.
None of them noticed how long it had been until the sounds of scurrying footsteps echoed in the hallway—it was Tobias and Stefania who had brought Gregory and Gordon along. They were a mess as they rushed over to them.
"Nicholas, I heard that Tessa is injured!"
"What's with the blood on you? What the hell happened?"
The elders asked simultaneously, and Gregory wailed with bloodshot eyes, "Daddy, what happened to Mommy?"
Nicholas was well aware that he couldn't sugar-coat the truth from them in such circumstances, so he told them everything that he knew at this point. "Zachary and the others colluded with someone to kidnap Tessa. They have set us up, and Tessa was pushed off the cliff by the kidnappers."
The information he provided horrified and infuriated Tobias and Stefania.
they do that?!" Stefania hissed
up in Gregory's eyes, and he choked, "Is Mommy badly injured? Will she leave
will be fine," Nicholas said, assuring him solemnly.
fine after falling off a cliff?! Still, when she noticed how sad Gregory
"When she rolled off the cliff, she tried her best to stop herself from falling too fast in order to save herself. So, she suffered a lot of superficial injuries but not any fractures."
of relief after hearing that explanation.
started ringing, and it was none
with his checkup at the hospital and worried about
found Tess?"
did, and we're at the hospital now. You can come
up. Soon, the Sawyers heard the sounds of hurried footsteps in the hallway. This time, it was Timothy
him trying to run with his injured leg, he frowned and chided in disapproval, "Do you want
see Timothy in a terrible
couldn't care less as he grabbed his arm and demanded impatiently, "How's Tess doing?"
and cast a worried look at Nicholas.
in the ER now, and we don't know exactly how she's
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