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 he thought at

assumed Killian’s presence

with her

IS Iñ

had chosen to visit Eveleen instead.

long he stood there, lost in his turmoil. But

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

aside and

she expected Hamilton,

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

face soured. “What

Aren’t you afraid of scars? If you wanted Hamilton’s attention, couldn’t you have faked

laugh. “What do you know?”

a mile away. More importantly, she was certain Hamilton wouldn’t let

Hamilton outside?” Eveleen

eyebrow. “Just saw him looking murderous.

face twisted into a cold sneer. “Probably that wench

furrowed deeply, instantly connecting the dots. “Did you do something to

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

darkened but he said nothing more, quickly turning to leave. “I’ll

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the hospital, pushing his Range Rover to

been a half–hour drive in under ten minutes.

cliff side, Ryan, fueled by rage and

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

and Alden shouted in alarm.

showing up! Where were you when she needed you?”

shouted at Hamilton.

at Ryan. “Stay out of

tried to say something else, but was pulled back by Dawson as soon as he

Hamilton but didn’t

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

was pale as death. “Not yet.”

a grim