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 room, Mr.

bore into Ryan. "Mr. Holzer, you were all about preserving Ms. Jenkins' reputation before, and now you're shamelessly entering her room in the middle of the night?"

take it to heart;

you like getting close

mind letting Hamilton vent

expression, however,

close

smile and unceremoniously shut

door that had been closed right before

bellhop tentatively asked, "Sir, do

glacial

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

went to boil some water, planning to make

stopped her

"What happened last night?"

up with

"How come

up to Hamilton dealing with

He had

brought Natalia to this hotel, and while Natalia had a problem, he was clueless, but Hamilton knew

of his relationship with Natalia, he couldn't

on, could you call

Natalia smiled and nodded.

pressing further, and they switched topics to

didn't stay too

was his oversight

as Hamilton had pointed out, it was inappropriate for him to stay in Natalia's room

for a while,

was still standing outside when a lady from the neighboring room saw

what are you doing out

annoyed and frowned

the lady seemed to have an epiphany. "Oh,

of Hamilton's mouth twitched,

he suddenly found the idea of Natalia

with a laugh, "Well, you'd

is; you gotta try unless you don't want her as your

and Natalia stepped

lady paused, her gaze sweeping back and

she gave Hamilton a

handsome guy like you; I can't believe

face was as dark

never been spoken to like that

a couple!" His voice was

disgusted. "But she lets him into

Hamilton's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

the lady had

chill

turned to Ryan. "Be careful

then looked

aren't you going to

a cold laugh. "What's it

smiled and turned

sure you lock the

Natalia nodded.