Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 61

Hamilton’s gaze narrowed slightly as Natalla finished speaking.

Lounging on the couch with a lazy posture, his eyes settled on Natalla, his expression carrying an enigmatic undertone,

“Do you want to get married?”

Natalia hadn’t actually planned on getting married, but since Graham had brought it up, it seemed like a situation she couldn’t dodge.

She didn’t want to sneak around Hamilton for some matchmaking shenanigans only to stir up unnecessary trouble later.

“Not really, It’s Just that he wants to set me up, and avoiding it might mean trouble from him.”

Hamilton let out a soft huff. “I recall you mentioning before that you were looking to settle down.”

The memory came unbidden to Natalla; back when she first discovered she was pregnant and wanted to break free from this man, her excuse had been the desire to get married.

“Mr. Fowler, rest assured, there will be no romantic entanglements with any man until our contract is up. Even if I do go on this blind date, It’s merely to appease Graham.”

Hamilton’s gaze darkened, unreadable.

But Natalla was speaking nothing but the truth.

After watching her for a prolonged moment, Hamilton grunted, “As long as you understand your position.”

With that, he turned his attention back to the contracts he was reviewing.

Natalia leaned back against the headboard, no longer speaking.

Hamilton worked through several contracts, and during that time, the hospital room was eerily quiet.

Natalia checked her emails on her phone; Llonel had sent over part of the information she needed.

She glanced at Hamilton’s laptop, then asked, “Hamilton, may I use your computer for a moment?”

He looked at her and passed the laptop over. However, when Natalia reached to take it, he didn’t let go.

She paused, a flicker of confusion crossing her face as she looked at Hamilton.

His eyes squinted slightly, and after a moment, he said, “Next time someone tries to set you up, Ms. Jenkins, you can just say you’re already taken.”

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do you mean by that,

an eyebrow. “It means I’m giving you permission to claim

threatened to leap out of her chest, pounding deafeningly loud, almost drowning out

nonchalance. “You’re allowing me to tell people I

was shaky despite her best

just chuckled. “Do you really not grasp my

tension. She genuinely didn’t

claim she had a

let herself think too much, yet

seven, when he first appeared, to the tangled years at twenty–seven, this man had consumed twenty years of her

inflicted. Yet, she still held on to the

knew it was pathetic. But matters of the heart are hard to control.

crossed. “What I mean is, I can, albeit reluctantly, act as a shield for you, Ms. Jenkins. Do you understand?”

The reluctant shield.

slow, to calm. After a long while, she laughed. mockingly at herself. Knowing

at Hamilton with an air of polse. “Wouldn’t

never

care. He had always done as he pleased, never considering the feelings of others, but it

boyfriend would indeed spare her many troubles. At least, it would extinguish the hopes of those harboring Inappropriate

Inappropriate about

softly. “Aren’t you worried Ms.

light

her of our

Eveleen. But when had it not been under duress from Eveleen’s provocations? And did she ever want to

to hide. In this triad, she was always the passive one. She never wished to be the third

bed, quietly working through the information

felt heavy, she could

painful when you stop fixating on

improve. He disliked her

Jenkins, you need not feel so aggrieved; after all,

tensed. “I’m not aggrieved.”

coldly. “Do you think

gaze fell on the computer screen, and after a

look up; her fingers remained busy on