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

assumed Killian’s presence

staying with her wouldn’t

I IS Iñ

to visit Eveleen

lost in his turmoil. But he finally snapped to action and

injury, had arrived early, only to encounter Hamilton, a man he’d never seen so close to

thoughts aside and walked straight into Eveleen’s

expected Hamilton, but was

glanced at her. “So, you’re

face soured. “What do you think?”

that. Aren’t you afraid of scars? If you wanted Hamilton’s attention, couldn’t you

let out a laugh. “What do

a mile away. More importantly,

outside?” Eveleen

saw him looking murderous. What’s

sneer. “Probably that wench

connecting the dots. “Did you do something to

“How could I? I wouldn’t lay a

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

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his Range Rover to its limits as

what should have been a half–hour drive in under

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

“Hamilton!”

“Bro!”

shouted in

were you when

shouted at Hamilton.

out of this, Ryan. Natalia

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

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

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

as death. “Not

tinged his voice, a grim omen