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

assumed Killian’s presence meant

had assumed that staying with her wouldn’t

I IS Iñ

he had chosen to visit Eveleen

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 with a killer’s madness.

aside and

Hearing the door, she expected Hamilton, but was surprised to

glanced at her. “So, you’re

soured. “What do

his tongue. “You’ve got guts, ruining your own face like that. Aren’t you afraid of

laugh. “What

spot a fake from a mile away. More importantly, she was certain

outside?”

saw him looking murderous. What’s happened?”

cold sneer. “Probably that wench is dead.”

furrowed deeply, instantly connecting the dots. “Did

wouldn’t lay a finger on her. But

nothing more, quickly turning to leave. “I’ll go check.”

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his Range Rover to its limits as he sped towards the outskirts.

have been a half–hour drive in under

the cliff side, Ryan, fueled by rage and grief, confronted

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

Alden shouted in alarm.

some nerve showing up! Where were you when she needed

shouted at Hamilton.

sore cheek, Hamilton sneered at Ryan. “Stay out of this, Ryan. Natalia and I are none

as soon as he could. “Don’t add fuel to the flame. It’s important to

didn’t say

aside, Hamilton turned to Alden, his face a mask of

as death. “Not yet.”

tinged his voice, a grim omen