Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 79

Natalia was jolted awake by an intense thirst in the middle of the night. Her temples throbbed in painful beats. Her throat felt parched like the dry sands of a desert.

Instinctively, she reached for the space beside her, Hamilton wasn’t there. She had a faint. recollection of him coming home.

He must have left again. She thought.

Natalia let out a wry chuckle, swung her legs out of bed, and decided to head to the kitchen for a glass of water.

Stepping out of the bedroom, she caught sight of a figure on the balcony.

The man had an impressive physique, yet he seemed somewhat forlorn against the dark night sky.

He was in a bad mood. Natalia could tell that at a glance..

She didn’t interfere, nor did she ask. In this world, the only person who could affect his mood that way was probably Eveleen.

She moved alone into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water. After drinking, she returned to the bedroom. Just as she was about to drift off, the bedroom door swung open.

Hamilton stood in the doorway, his expression unreadable, but the heavy scent of tobacco clung to him.

“Awake?” Hamilton’s voice, deep and tinged with irritation, broke the silence.

Natalia’s lips twitched, “Yeah. You need something, Mr. Fowler? If not, I’m going back to sleep.”

Hamilton let out a scoffing laugh, “Do

you

remember what you said?”

Natalia’s eyebrows furrowed sharply She couldn’t remember. All she recalled was Hamilton

forcing her to drink when he came back. Nothing beyond that.

“Sorry, it’s a blank, she admitted and turned over, ready to sleep again. But her wrist was suddenly seized.

Before she could struggle, Hamilton leaned over and pinned her down.

“Don’t remember?” The smile on his lips turned colder. “Let me jog your memory.”

His teeth grazed her neck, nipping a tender piece of flesh with excruciating precision.

Natalia writhed under the sharp pain, “Hamilton, what madness is this!”

chuckle, “Let’s just say I’ve gone mad.”

felt on the

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been aflame with an unquenchable fire. He had no place to vent it and no way

it, and still took the birth control pills he provided.

Torturing herself? Or seeking revenge in this twisted

the child. He paid what he owed and made the necessary reparations.

was the most useless of

But now…

he found it laughably ironic that he felt a twinge of

bore into the woman beneath

anger over Eveleen. “What? Because of that thing I said to Eveleen? If you can’t handle the game,

on her lip. “I can’t

shred of tenderness, he tore her nightgown, leaving a trail of ambiguous red

tried to fight back, but his dominance left no

want this!” she

hands above her

on Hamilton’s shoulder in a burst of defiance. He

woke up well

home, probably at

a message from him: [You can take another day

she’d yearned to hear him call her that. Now, it was just ludicrous. She tossed the phone aside and never

Chapter

She spent the whole

greeted Natalia with near–tears of joy, “Boss, you’re finally here! Why were you

offered a vague smile, “Had a bit of a health scare. Needed minor surgery.”

I see. Feeling better?”

as she pushed open the door to her office.

entered, she stopped dead in her tracks. Then

the executive secretary had warned her, seeing the person before her was still

As a child, Giselle often followed Eveleen

the cushy gig. She’s clueless, bosses everyone around, and has a temper like a bull in a china shop. Already drove a few good people from our department

muttered to Natalia before

call. Looking up and seeing Natalia, Giselle’s

the other end

Natalia with a smirk, “And here I was, thinking it was someone important. Just the daughter of some old fling who’s repeating her mother’s same old

“Giselle, maybe you should ask Eveleen why she got

had heard about Eveleen’s misfortune. And to top it off, Hamilton hadn’t laid a finger on Natalia afterward.

You’re a bastard child. Do you