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?”

her gaze, Natalie nodded at

at her with an indecipherable

you mean?” She was

kidnapped you and forced you to jump off a cliff with me. You should be treating me like your sworn enemy. How could you be so stupid as to save me? Aren't

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

a saint, but I'm not going to

scoffed lightly, and she thought she could sense the

woman I've ever

enemy. She's also the kindest woman

words. I don't see the point in

Sean, I'd like to know how we survived

cliff they had jumped off of

have survived that fall

we survived with all our limbs intact.

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

wall of the cave. Looking at the pebbles next to her 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 leave

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

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