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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filled her eyes, but the hand holding the laptop

by that, Mr. Fowler?”

eyebrow. “It means I’m giving you permission to claim you have a boyfriend.”

chest, pounding deafeningly loud, almost

tell people I have a boyfriend? And what if they ask who

shaky despite her best

you really not

lips were taut with tension. She genuinely didn’t understand what he

tell her to claim she had a

think too much, yet she couldn’t help

too long. From the age of seven, when he first appeared, to the tangled years at twenty–seven, this

she still held on to the hope that one

matters of

Hamilton released the laptop, leaning back with arms crossed. “What I mean is, I can, albeit reluctantly, act as a shield for

The reluctant shield.

could feel her racing pulse begin to slow, to calm. After a long while, she laughed. mockingly at herself. Knowing the Impossibility, she wondered why she still

an air of polse. “Wouldn’t

never

he pleased, never considering the feelings of others, but it was

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

nothing Inappropriate about

“Aren’t you worried

look and a light

her of our

had indirectly mentioned her Involvement with Hamilton. to Eveleen. But when had it not been under duress from Eveleen’s provocations?

to feel as though she had something to hide. In this triad,

on the bed, quietly working through the information Lionel

felt heavy, she could bear

painful when you stop fixating on

disliked her

need not feel so aggrieved; after all, I’m merely

tensed. “I’m not

you think I

His gaze fell on the computer screen, and after a moment, his eyes

look up; her fingers remained busy on the keyboard.