Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 134

Chapter 134

On a rocky outcrop a few dozen meters away, a white figure lay still.

Hamilton swam towards the shape with hastened strokes.

But as he neared, he slowed his pace, an uneasy feeling settling over him.

There, on the edge of the rocks, was a woman, as still as the dead. Just last night when he left her, she was perfectly fine. Now she lay there, breath seemingly stolen from her lips.

Hamilton always thought of himself as bulletproof. But fear, a stranger to him, now gripped his

heart.

His hands trembled as they wrapped around the woman’s waist, pulling her close to his chest.

The tape that had been cruelly stuck to her mouth must have loosened in the sea, and the ropes binding her hands had come undone. Her hands bore the raw marks of a desperate struggle.

Only when Hamilton cradled her did he realize the biting cold. No warmth left in her body.

His eyes fell, and for the first time, a fragile vulnerability touched his pale face. His lips were a tight line, and after what felt like an eternity, he shakily reached out to check for her breath.

Only coldness met his touch.

His eyes that had hidden all emotion now reddened in an instant.

He laid her on the rocks, performing CPR with a frenzied urgency.

The others who arrived on the scene wore grave expressions.

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Alden stood in the chilly seawater, his entire body trembling.

Ryan watched for a moment before stepping forward. “Let me try.’

But Hamilton roared with bloodshot eyes, “Get lost!”

Ryan tried again, only to be held back by Alden.

No one would be allowed to touch Natalia when Hamilton was like this.

Time ticked by mercilessly.

Just when hope seemed a distant memory, Natalia coughed. Hamilton froze, then quickly pulled her into his embrace.

His voice shook as he whispered, “Natalia.”

Her consciousness was a blur. The roar of the sea filled her ears, that sense of helplessness engulfing her once more.

This might be it, she thought.

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now wouldn’t be so bad, but

28, on her birthday no less, she had life yet to live. She didn’t want to be a

vast ocean.

searing through her, but she wrenched it free from the

consumed her

sea ten years ago. The day Hamilton

now, she gave that life back to him.

seemed fitting. She owed

was taking her, but then she

“Natalia.”

brow furrowed, and her

before

voice trembled. “We’re even now.”

couldn’t make out her words, but reached

Ryan’s wrist. Without words, her action drained her remaining strength.

immediately. His fleeting joy at her resuscitated breath vanished without a trace. Stunned, he

transparency.

“Natalia.”

eyes were

Ryan, her eyes brimming with tears and

Hamilton, then carefully

take her back, but Alden suddenly wrapped him in a tight embrace.

can’t handle this. We can’t delay

go,” Hamilton’s voice was ice, but

if you weren’t

he blocked Ryan’s path.

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faced Hamilton. “Hamilton, the last person who deserves to touch her

of rage. “Ryan, I’m telling you. Give her

firm. Then Dawson spoke up. “Give her to

he strode towards the car.

no time, driving them

Natalia fell back into unconsciousness,

quivered as he

me a blanket.”

Ryan handed over a blanket, which Hamilton draped over

her limp wrist, a suffocating pain

she

Orpheus!

surged through

a man’s duty. Don’t wait

words cut through the tension.

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