Chapter 726
He threw one final glance in her direction, his lips barely moving.
From dozens of feet away, Sienna could only make out the faintest outline of his mouth.
But she knew exactly what he was saying. He was saying, don’t be afraid.
The very next second.
He loosely clutched the jacket around the figure in his arms, pretending it was Sienna to deceive every single set of eyes.
Just as the mob lunged forward.
His eyes turned ice-cold, and he threw himself backward into the void p>
The moonlight traced a graceful arc as the jacket caught the wind, violently billowing outward.
Sienna’s light gray coat fluttered like a shredded cloud before instantly vanishing into the abyss below.
The ocean roared hundreds of feet down, the thunderous crash of waves slamming against jagged rocks echoing all the way to the top.
It was a sheer drop straight into the violent, pitch-black sea.
Silent and instantaneous, he was swallowed whole by the monstrous waves.
Sienna’s mind went entirely blank.
The world stopped spinning.
Sienna’s legs gave out.
She collapsed behind the bushes, her knees slamming into the jagged rocks.
A sharp, piercing agony radiated from the bone, but she couldn’t feel it.
Her eyes were still glued to that empty, desolate cliff face.
Where Jarred had been standing just a second ago, there was now nothing but moonlight, crumbling dirt, and the empty, grasping wind.
Sienna opened her mouth to speak, but her throat felt like it had been cemented shut; she couldn’t make a single sound.
Her chest throbbed so violently it felt like it might burst open.
It was as if every bone in her body had been completely shattered, leaving her entirely numb.
The group of men rushed to the edge of the cliff, staring down at the churning leviathan below.
Their faces drained of color as they stumbled backward in horror.
“It’s… it’s too high p>
“A fall from this height would shatter every bone in a man’s body. Throw in the waves and the undercurrents, and there’s zero chance of survival p>
“We probably won’t even find the corpse. The things in that water will pick it clean p>
The leader’s face turned ash-gray, furious and panicked, he roared at his men.
“Useless trash! The boss wanted Dr. Sloan! How the hell am I supposed to explain this p>
He gnashed his teeth and barked a new order. “Get men in the water immediately! I want her alive, or tf want a body! Start the search now p>
The men didn’t dare argue, frantically scrambling to coordinate a search party through the night.
The wild mountain wind tore through the trees.
Sienna lay completely paralyzed on the ground, every ounce of strength siphoned from her veins.
Her eyes were bone-dry, staring into a terrifying, silent deadness.
She kept her eyes open, her pupils vacant and hollow as she stared fixedly at the monstrous cliff that had just swallowed him whole.
A bottomless abyss, roaring waves, and a lethal undercurrent.
A drop from that height into such a brutal ocean p>
There was absolutely no chance of survival.
Let alone with the catastrophic injuries he had already sustained p>
She didn’t know how long she lay frozen in the freezing wind before a faint tingle of sensation finally returned to her numb limbs.
Sienna pushed against the ground, forcing her trembling body upright inch by agonizing inch, her knees shaking violently.
Crawling on her hands and knees, she dragged herself to the very edge of the cliff and leaned over.
The next second, the bone-chilling cold of the abyss, carried by the thunderous roar of the ocean slammed viciously against her face
Sienna went rigid, the freezing cold plunging straight into her heart.
The howling, empty despair of the sea breeze violently shocked her sluggish brain back to reality.
In a flash, absolute clarity returned.
Her eyes stung violently, and a fierce, suffocating ache rushed to her tear ducts without warning.
Two silent tears rolled down her cheeks, plummeting into the endless dark abyss beneath her feet, so small they vanished instantly.
It was a terror she had never experienced before.
Sienna knew she couldn’t stay here any longer.
In a fraction of a second, she forcefully suppressed the torrential tsunami of grief threatening to drown her.
Gritting her teeth, she leaned on her weak, trembling legs and forced herself to stand completely straight.
She ruthlessly locked her emotions away.
Knowing she couldn’t waste a single second, Sienna turned around and headed in the direction Jarred had pointed out to her.