Shivering, Natalie opened her eyes and sat up. She immediately sneezed.

“Are you awake?” A man's weak voice called out.

Natalie paused in the middle of rubbing her arms for heat. She looked toward the direction of the voice.

Sean was staring at her from where he was sitting at the entrance of the cave.

“When did you come to?” Natalie asked.

Turning his head to look out the cave, he replied, “I'm not sure. It should be around the time the sun rose.”

“Oh,” was her only response, as Natalie curled herself into a ball to converse heat.

It was difficult to generate any warmth owing to her drenched clothes. Thus, she continued to shiver from the cold.

At this rate, I'm going to come down with a fever. We have to find some way to get out of this mountain. If we don't get help soon, we're going to die here.

She was jolted from her thoughts by a question from Sean. “Did you bring me here?”

gaze, Natalie nodded at

at her with an indecipherable gaze.

you mean?” She was confused by his

you and forced you to jump off a cliff with me. You should be treating me like your sworn

feet, she replied, “I do hate you. After all, you tried to kill me. I'm lucky to be alive. When I saw you lying unconscious on the ground, my conscience would not just let me

saint, but I'm not going to leave someone to die

could sense the

the stupidest woman I've ever met,”

save her enemy. She's also the kindest woman

I don't see the

like to know how we survived

jumped off of

one could have survived

our limbs intact. How was

figure out what actually happened. During the fall, she had fainted from her fear of heights and only regained consciousness moments

feet, she replied, “I do hate you. After all, you tried to kill me. I'm lucky to be alive. When I saw you lying unconscious on the ground, my conscience would

before he recounted the incident. “We were lucky that a tree growing on the cliff

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