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.

1/4

12:23

Chapter 133

couldn’t see. She hadn’t wanted him to

assumed Killian’s presence meant

assumed that staying with her wouldn’t change Tatiana’s fate.

IS Iñ

chosen to visit Eveleen

his turmoil. But he finally snapped to action and strode purposefully out

encounter Hamilton, a man he’d never seen so close to

and walked straight into Eveleen’s hospital room.

Hamilton, but was surprised to see

glanced at her. “So,

“What do you think?”

face like that. Aren’t you afraid of scars? If you wanted Hamilton’s attention, couldn’t you have

a laugh. “What

More importantly, she was certain Hamilton wouldn’t let her scar.

Hamilton outside?”

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

sneer.

brow furrowed deeply, instantly connecting the dots. “Did you do something to Natalia?”

“How could I? I wouldn’t lay a finger

darkened but he said nothing more, quickly turning to leave. “I’ll go

12:24

Chapter 133.

pushing his Range Rover to its limits as he sped towards

should have been a half–hour drive

by rage and grief, confronted Hamilton with a fist to the

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

and Alden shouted in alarm.

nerve showing up! Where were you when

shouted at Hamilton.

out of this, Ryan. Natalia and I

Dawson as soon as he

didn’t

to Alden, his face a mask of ice. “Any sign of her?”

was pale as death.

his voice, a grim omen of hope