"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.
hissed angrily, her teeth clenching tightly.
up in Gregory's eyes, and he choked, "Is
be fine," Nicholas said,
a person be fine after falling off a cliff?! Still, when she noticed how sad Gregory looked, she couldn't bring herself to voice
over her face, so Nicholas naturally knew what she was truly thinking. So, he added, "When she rolled off the cliff, she tried her best to
out a silent sigh of relief after hearing that
was none other than Timothy
the hospital and worried about Tessa the
have you found
did, and we're at the hospital now.
sounds of hurried footsteps in the
saw him trying to run with his injured leg, he frowned and chided in disapproval, "Do you want to worsen your leg injury?
to see
care less as he grabbed his arm and demanded impatiently, "How's Tess
him, Sabrina followed closely and cast a worried look at Nicholas.
we don't know exactly how she's
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