Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 114

Natalia’s smile stiffened for a moment. She hadn’t mentioned tonight’s affair to Hamilton. Had she done so, she likely wouldn’t have made it this evening.

Hamilton didn’t care about her, but his need to control her was exceptionally strong.

To this day. Natalia couldn’t figure out what that man was thinking. Just like she couldn’t understand why he cared so much about Eveleen yet insisted on keeping her close.

The thought of Hamilton and Eveleen still cast a shadow over Natalia’s heart. Even though she tried not to let it bother her, it still hurt.

Caspian noticed the fleeting cloud over Natalia’s expression, and his brows knitted slightly.

“Argued?”

Natalia snapped back to reality, shaking her head. “No.”

Caspian didn’t press her, merely nodding. “Listen, if you need a hand with anything, just holler. I’m the kind of guy who helps a friend out, family or not.”

Natalia smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.

It wasn’t long before Ryan returned.

Caspian looked at Natalia. “We’ll catch up after the gathering.”

*Sure,” Natalia agreed.

She followed Ryan toward the interpreter’s booth.

“Nervous?” Ryan’s eyes still twinkled with delight.

Natalia chuckled. “It’d be a lie to say I’m not.‘

It had been three years since she last did simultaneous interpretation, and to jump back in at such a large–scale conference, she feared making a mistake.

But Ryan just smiled. “I believe in you.”

Natalia glanced at him and said no more. Having agreed to the task, she wasn’t one to bail at

the last minute.

Inside the booth, several interpreters were already engaged in hushed discussions about the conference content. Upon Ryan and Natalia’s arrival, all eyes turned toward them.

Most high–end interpreters were familiar faces at various conferences, but Natalia was a new face to them.

The head of the translation department, Collin, couldn’t help but frown.

“Ryan, is this the Italian interpreter you spoke of? Has she done this sort of work before?”

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responded. “I shadowed a

Collin’s expression soured.

reassured, “Mr. Collin, don’t worry. If anything goes wrong, I’ll take

one dared question his assurance. But that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be problems. Should anything go awry, even with Ryan taking responsibility,

about to start, finding a replacement was

look. Her clean, pretty face betrayed no sign

anxiety was palpable. Yet, there was an odd sense of

with a passion she thought she had lost

fluid Italian flowed from the headphones, Collin was stunned. He stared at the figure in the interpreter booth in

the passage of

finally ended, Natalia emerged from

did it feel?” he asked

Natalia nodded vigorously.

scrutinizing Natalia, “You

hello, I’m

up with recognition. “Natalia? The polyglot fluent in ten languages? I’ve seen your profile among the distinguished alumni at Boria University. I wanted to recruit you for our department, but I heard you left

I

“Then, perhaps we’ll work together more in the future?”

eyes

a brief chat, she left with Ryan.

should have come back sooner.”

She wanted to return, but it wouldn’t be easy. Just facing Hamilton would be a

outside, they ran

was now standing at the

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I give you

had intended to offer

his thoughts. “You must have a lot

with the conference over but foreign guests still requiring his

he wasn’t in a hurry. Now that he’d reconnected with Natalia, he was

said, “We’ll be

farewell, Natalia joined Caspian.

Spiegel, did you want to

your mother was in a coma. How is she now?

Caspian couldn’t shake his concerns since Natalia mentioned her mother’s accident and coma. At times, he found his own preoccupation amusing. Surely, her mother couldn’t be his sister,

of sadness over Natalia. “It’s the same,

Caspian nodded understandingly.

again, he said, “If there’s anything you need help with down

the way to the parking lot, but at the

a black overcoat, blended into the chilly night yet somehow seemed even colder than the winter air itself. He