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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the lurking danger she couldn’t see. She hadn’t wanted

had assumed Killian’s

assumed that staying with her wouldn’t change

IS Iñ

chosen to visit

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

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

and walked

door, she expected Hamilton, but was surprised

“So, you’re really

“What

clicked his tongue. “You’ve got guts, ruining your own face like that. Aren’t you afraid of scars? If you wanted Hamilton’s attention, couldn’t you have faked

out a laugh. “What do you know?”

away. More importantly, she was certain Hamilton

Hamilton outside?” Eveleen asked.

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

twisted into a cold sneer. “Probably that

deeply, instantly connecting the dots. “Did

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

more,

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off from the hospital, pushing his Range Rover to its limits as he sped

have been a half–hour drive in under

rage and grief, confronted Hamilton

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

and Alden shouted

Where were you

shouted at Hamilton.

out of this, Ryan. Natalia and I

by Dawson as soon as he could.

angrily at Hamilton but didn’t say anything else after all.

pushing Ryan aside, Hamilton turned to Alden, his face

as death. “Not

voice, a grim omen of