Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 133

A shroud of gloom seemed to envelop Hamilton, yet his face remained as unreadable as ever, betraying no hint of the storm brewing within.

He casually scrolled through his missed calls until one name made his finger pause abruptly–Natalia. Her call had come in a few minutes before the snapshot of Orpheus had landed in his inbox.

That meant she had tried reaching out to him before she was taken.

A suffocating sensation rose in his chest as he wondered how she felt hearing his phone click off.

Then, as if on cue, his phone rang again. With a steely expression, Hamilton answered.

“Bro! Ms. Jenkins is in trouble!” Alden’s voice trembled with urgency on the other end.

Hamilton’s eyes narrowed, a cold fury beginning to simmer beneath his calm exterior. “What’s the situation now?”

Alden struggled to speak, finally managing to utter a dire statement. “It’s touch and go.”

“What did you say?” Hamilton’s voice dropped to an icy register, disbelief threading through his tone.

“Touch and go? Who’s touch and go? Alden, you’d better make yourself clear!”

“Bro, Ms. Jenkins was thrown off a cliff, and we’re still searching, but we don’t know if she’s… if she’s still alive.”

Though Alden spoke of search, hope seemed a luxury he could scarcely afford.

Natalia had been thrown off the cliff with her hands tied and gagged. From such a height, the fall alone might not kill her, but the waters below could claim her life just the same.

Hamilton’s mind blanked, a taut wire in his head snapping, leaving him rigid with shock.

Whatever Alden said next was lost to him; his thoughts were consumed by the pleading look in Natalia’s eyes when he’d left the hospital last night.

She had been afraid, and he knew that.

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She hadn’t wanted him to leave, but what had he thought at

Killian’s presence

staying with

I IS Iñ

he had chosen to visit Eveleen instead.

lost in his turmoil. But

heard of Eveleen’s injury, had arrived early, only to encounter Hamilton, a man he’d never seen so close to the edge–cold, deadly, his face devoid of emotion yet brimming

aside and

the door, she expected Hamilton, but was surprised to see Victor instead.

glanced at her. “So, you’re really disfigured?”

soured. “What

face like that. Aren’t you afraid of scars?

a laugh. “What do you

More importantly, she was

Hamilton outside?” Eveleen

an eyebrow. “Just saw him looking murderous. What’s

twisted into a cold sneer. “Probably that wench is

connecting the dots. “Did

lay a finger on

more, quickly turning

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Range Rover to its limits as

a half–hour drive in under ten

at the cliff side, Ryan, fueled by rage and grief, confronted Hamilton with a

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

Alden shouted

got some nerve showing up! Where were you when she needed you?”

shouted at Hamilton.

sneered at Ryan. “Stay out of this, Ryan. Natalia and I

something else, but was pulled back by Dawson as soon as he could. “Don’t add fuel to the flame. It’s important to find Natalia now.”

but didn’t say anything else after all.

face a mask of ice. “Any

was pale as death.

tinged his voice, a grim omen of hope fading.