Love Unspoken

Chapter 1272

She widened her eyes, not sure if she should be stoked or freaked out. She bolted downhill, but in her rush, she tripped and tumbled down the slope. After she landed, she got up and started rummaging through the grass around her.

Walter watched her part the ankle-deep grass, looking for Alexander, a helpless look in his eyes.

Alexander was so tall, he should've been easy to spot. How could he be hiding in such shallow grass?

Quinn searched all the grass around but found nada, so she looked further away. She figured Alexander might've been hurt bad and crawled off somewhere. She searched a bit further uphill but still came up empty.

Walter followed her down. When he got halfway down the slope, he stopped and looked down. There were bright red droplets on the grass.

He bent down and wiped them, ending up with a hand full of blood.

He frowned and wiped around again, his whole hand covered in blood.

"Quinn," Walter called out seriously.

Quinn turned, came to his side, and followed his gaze, first noticing the blood on his hand.

revealing a bright red stain. Her eyes flickered

to keep her emotions in check, tried to stand up but weakly

pull her up, but she shook off his hand and crawled upward. The grass along the way was

fingers, arms, and entire sleeves were

to the top of the slope and saw a pool of

her mind automatically picturing Alexander falling and his injuries. Tears

and the pre-dawn wind

blankly at the pool of

phone was almost dead. He turned off the phone light, and

we keep looking?" Walter broke

Quinn didn't respond.

she finally croaked out,

just went farther away,"

"It's possible. But there doesn't seem to be any place to hide around here,"

happy now?"

slowly replied, "I