Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 43

Even at this late hour, Hamilton remained steadfast in his refusal to offer Natalla a glimmer of hope. He didn’t want the baby. His stance hadn’t wavered the slightest bit from the start. His simple and resolute response, like a sword, severed all her hopes.

Natalia’s grip on Hamilton’s hand gradually loosened.

“I’m sorry,” she whispered softly, to no one in particular.

Perhaps to Hamilton. Maybe to the child within her. Or perhaps to herself.

She should not have kept this from Hamilton. After all, he was the father. Nor should she have. harbored any forbidden hopes. To let the child linger briefly, only to depart in such a way.

She should not have given herself hope, the hope that she could be a mother.

“I’m sorry,” she murmured as a tear silently traced its way down her cheek.

At that moment, it was unclear whether the pain in her body or her heart was greater. All she felt was a chilling sensation spreading throughout her, with a warm current flowing from below.

Natalia’s lips were turning pale.

Something was slipping away quietly..

Hamilton’s hand clenched the steering wheel tightly. His other hand felt hers slip away from the center of his palm. The emptiness in his grip made him uncomfortably aware of its presence for the first time. He reflexively clenched his hand into a fist, the veins on the back standing

out.

The Rolls–Royce sped into the hospital’s emergency entrance.

When he lifted Natalia from the car, he felt moisture soaking through. The stark red of blood blurred his vision.

Hamilton had been accustomed to darkness since childhood, and nothing ever.seemed to rattle him, but at this moment, he found it hard to breathe.

He rushed Natalia into the emergency room. After handing her over to the doctors, he stood there, staring at his blood–stained hands in a daze.

Alden arrived at the hospital shortly after. Seeing the blood on Hamilton’s hands, he was momentarily stunned.

“Bro, Ms. Jenkins, she…”

Hamilton glanced back at him, his face now devoid of emotion.

“She’s probably had a miscarriage,” he muttered.

Alden was lost for words, the concept of a miscarriage hanging heavily in the air.

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was Ms. Jenkins

furrowed slightly, but he didn’t address the question. “You stay here: I’m going to wash my hands.”

that, he turned and

expression but could feel the icy aura that surrounded him

in the restroom. Watching the blood–tainted water swirl down the drain, he suddenly slammed his fist against the sink in frustration. After a moment, he took a deep breath, turned off the tap, and dried his hands with a paper towel

in front of the mirror, his motions to dry his hands deliberate and

some time. The nausea, the carefulness during intimacy, the repeated probing, even the talks of leaving. He should have realized she was pregnant, not some

the child, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome, but at least he wouldn’t have been caught off guard. He didn’t want this child,

Alden couldn’t stay away, following

stained with blood. “Why are you here? Didn’t I tell you to stay

you, so I came

pause, he added, “There will be other children in

him and said, “You’re thinking too much.”

stubbed out his cigarette and walked over, clapping Alden on the shoulder. “I never intended to keep this child.”

in concern. “Bro, that’s your flesh and

it’s not my flesh and

concern.”

Hamilton, who at nineteen had taken control of the Fowler family, a den of wolves. Sure,

had grown up unscathed in such a family. But how could he be so heartless

Ms. Jenkins, she…”

want the child. She

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as he

years. Do you truly feel nothing for her? If you don’t, why keep her around?

narrowed as he looked at Alden. “Alden, don’t think you can pry into

what I meant. I’m just being honest. I’ve always seen her as my sister–in–law. In

lips twitching slightly, but he

the emergency room, Scarlett arrived in a flurry of

when she called me! Hamilton! Why did she miscarry? Do you know how much she wanted this baby? Why? Why do this to her? Hamilton, you bastard! If you didn’t want a child, you should’ve gotten a vasectomy! How could you

was shocked by Scarlett’s outburst. Even he wouldn’t dare speak to Hamilton like that. He quickly stepped forward to

lost

me! I need to teach this

struggled fiercely, and Alden had no choice but to

grim cast as he straightened out his

he was presentable again, he reluctantly

to expectations, there was no trace of anger. He regarded Scarlett with an icy stare.

responsibility, but is that her excuse for keeping it from me? If she had just told me earlier, would we be in this mess

paused, wiping away a tear, “Natalia… she just wanted to

there’s some nobility in recklessly

glared back at him. “Hamilton, do you even have

with a darkened expression at the closed doors

emergency room.