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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but the hand holding

by that,

I’m giving you

of her chest, pounding deafeningly loud, almost

a light chuckle, felgning nonchalance. “You’re allowing me to tell people I have a boyfriend? And

despite her

chuckled. “Do you really not grasp my Implication?”

tension. She genuinely didn’t understand what

claim she had

much, yet she couldn’t help

the age of seven, when he first appeared, to the tangled years at twenty–seven,

her love for Hamilton waning, diminishing with every merciless wound he inflicted. Yet, she still held on to

pathetic. But matters of the heart

with arms crossed. “What I mean is, I can, albeit reluctantly, act as a shield for you,

The reluctant shield.

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

at Hamilton with an air

never

as he pleased, never considering the feelings

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

Inappropriate about that.

“Aren’t you worried Ms. Schafer might find

and a light laugh.

once? Having repeatedly informed her of

taken aback. Indeed, she had indirectly mentioned her Involvement with Hamilton. to Eveleen. But when had it not been under duress from

the one with Hamilton, yet she was made to feel as though she had something to hide. In this triad, she was always the passive one. She never wished

quietly working

heart felt heavy, she could bear

less painful when you stop fixating on

expression did not improve. He disliked her

feel so aggrieved; after all, I’m merely stating the

“I’m not

you think

stood and approached the bed. His gaze fell on the computer screen, and

her fingers remained busy on the keyboard.