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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couldn’t see. She hadn’t

had assumed Killian’s presence meant

assumed that staying with her wouldn’t change

IS Iñ So

to

lost in his turmoil. But he

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

thoughts aside and walked straight

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

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

face soured. “What do you

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 it?”

laugh. “What

spot a fake from a mile away. More

Hamilton outside?” Eveleen asked.

saw him

twisted into a cold sneer.

connecting the dots. “Did you do something to

“How could I? I wouldn’t lay a finger on her. But

darkened but he said nothing more, quickly turning

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

should have been a half–hour drive in under ten

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

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

Alden shouted in

nerve showing up! Where were

shouted at Hamilton.

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

pulled back by Dawson as soon as he could. “Don’t add

didn’t say

aside, Hamilton turned to Alden, his face a mask of ice. “Any

was pale as death.

grim