Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 159

Ryan followed Natalia into the elevator and then came clean.

"I saw Hamilton downstairs just now, so I figured I'd come up with you. He's probably here to see you, right?"

Natalia paused for a second.

She hadn't noticed Hamilton.

But whether he came or not didn't really make much difference to her now.

"Does tea keep you up at night?" she asked directly.

It took Ryan a moment to catch on, but then he realized she truly didn't care anymore.

She was letting herself move on.

"Nope." He looked at Natalia and chuckled. "You know your stuff about tea?"

Natalia nodded. "Took a class."

Ryan's eyes twinkled. "Well then, you might be in for some trouble. My granddad's a real tea aficionado. Looks like we'll be calling on your expertise." Natalia laughed, "Alright, I'll have to show him my skills one of these days."

They chatted and laughed as they stepped out of the elevator.

As soon as they did, the elevator next to them opened, too.

Hamilton's gaze landed on their smiling faces, and it felt like a punch to the gut.

Especially Ryan's smile-it just looked so off.

A grown man grinning like that-it was almost like he was selling himself short.

Natalia's stride faltered, and her brows furrowed.

"Mr. Fowler, is there something you need?"

Hamilton looked at Natalia, suddenly at a loss for words.

Need something?

Of course, he did.

He was there to keep an eye on Ryan, to make sure he didn't get any funny ideas.

But he didn't really have a leg to stand on for that now.

"I got a room here," Hamilton said, his gloomy expression laced with a touch of nonchalant ease.

Natalia's brows furrowed deeply. "What?"

Hamilton let out a laugh. "After what happened to you last night, I couldn't just ignore it."

Natalia hesitated, then fell silent.

She turned and unlocked her own door.

Ryan followed her in.

But as he started to close the door, Hamilton stopped him.

stood in the doorway, "Aren't you going back to your

preserving Ms. Jenkins' reputation before, and now you're shamelessly entering her room

to heart; he could

woman you like getting close

didn't mind letting Hamilton

expression, however, turned

close the

a smile and unceremoniously shut the door in

closed right before his

asked, "Sir, do you need an

shot a glacial

didn't dare say another word and quickly scuttled off.

water, planning to make Ryan a cup of

stopped her right

"What happened last night?"

showed up with a

"How come you didn't call me?"

night, everything happened so fast-from Thalia showing up to Hamilton dealing

today? He had been with Natalia all day, and

while Natalia had a problem,

given the current nature of his relationship with Natalia, he couldn't really

call me, no matter what it

Natalia smiled and nodded.

further, and they switched topics to some issues at

stay too

was his oversight

as Hamilton had pointed out, it was inappropriate for him to stay

a while, he stood up to

lady from the neighboring

are you doing out here

and

to have an epiphany.

corner of Hamilton's mouth twitched, but he didn't

suddenly found the idea of Natalia as his girlfriend

a laugh, "Well, you'd better apologize quickly, then." Hamilton's brows furrowed. "She's not easy to

you gotta try unless you don't want her as your girlfriend anymore."

Natalia stepped out

back and forth between

she gave Hamilton a look of utter

I can't believe you turned out to

as dark

been spoken to

His voice was firm

still looked disgusted. "But she lets him into her

Hamilton's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

could explain, the lady had already slipped

chill

"Be careful on

then looked at

you

a cold laugh. "What's

and turned

you lock the

Natalia nodded.