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

Killian’s

assumed that staying with her

IS Iñ So

he had chosen to

he stood there, lost in his turmoil. But he finally snapped to action and strode purposefully out of

had arrived early, only to encounter Hamilton, a man he’d never seen so close to the edge–cold, deadly,

the thoughts aside and walked straight

wasn’t sleeping. Hearing the door, she expected Hamilton, but was surprised to see Victor instead.

at her. “So,

soured. “What do you

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

a laugh. “What do you

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

Hamilton outside?”

raised an eyebrow. “Just saw him looking murderous.

a cold sneer. “Probably that

the dots. “Did you do

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

more, quickly turning

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pushing his Range Rover to its

should have been a half–hour

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

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

and Alden shouted

were you when she needed you?”

shouted at Hamilton.

of this, Ryan. Natalia and I are none of your

but was pulled back by Dawson as soon as he could. “Don’t add fuel to the flame.

but didn’t say anything else

Alden, his face a mask of ice. “Any sign

as

grim omen