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!”

“Let’s just

the brink of insanity.

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

yet she never mentioned it, and still took the

playing at? Torturing herself? Or seeking revenge

what he owed and made the necessary reparations. Why should

was the most

But now…

had told him she couldn’t have children anymore, he found it laughably ironic that he felt a

woman

anger over Eveleen. “What? Because of that thing I said to

down on her lip. “I can’t handle it? Natalia, let’s see how you like playing this game!”

leaving a trail of ambiguous red marks. on her pale,

back, but his dominance left

don’t want this!” she

wrists and pinned her hands above her head, “Can’t handle it anymore, my girlfriend?”

bit down on Hamilton’s shoulder in a burst

day, Natalia woke up well past ten in the

at the office by now.

message from

her that. Now, it was

Chapter

Hamilton suggested she rest at home, she didn’t argue. She spent the whole

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

bit of a health scare. Needed

see. Feeling

she pushed open the door to her

she entered, she stopped dead in her tracks. Then she let out

the executive secretary had warned her, seeing

Lynd, Lucinda’s niece and Eveleen’s cousin. As a child,

the cushy gig. She’s clueless, bosses

to Natalia before stepping out.

her desk, where Giselle seemed engrossed in a call. Looking up and seeing Natalia, Giselle’s face lit up with a grin, “Cousin, guess who I just saw?”

other end

at 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

face darkened instantly, “Giselle, maybe you should ask Eveleen

to top it

nerve to stand up to me? You’re a bastard child. Do you think that warming someone’s bed for days can