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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about Tatiana and the lurking danger she couldn’t see. She hadn’t wanted him to leave, but what

had assumed Killian’s

staying with

IS Iñ

chosen to visit Eveleen

stood there, lost in his turmoil. But he finally snapped

never seen so close to the edge–cold, deadly, his face devoid of

and walked straight into

wasn’t sleeping. Hearing the door, she expected Hamilton, but was

“So,

“What

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

let out a laugh. “What do you

a mile away. More

outside?”

eyebrow. “Just saw

face twisted into a cold sneer. “Probably

instantly connecting the dots. “Did you

Eveleen replied, “How could I? I wouldn’t lay a finger on her. But I can’t

said nothing more, quickly turning to leave.

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Rover to its limits as he sped towards the outskirts.

have been a half–hour drive in under

by rage and grief, confronted Hamilton with a

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

Alden shouted in

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

shouted at Hamilton.

his sore cheek, Hamilton sneered at Ryan. “Stay out of this,

as

at Hamilton but didn’t

face a mask of ice. “Any sign of

as death. “Not

tinged his voice, a grim omen