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.

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

before, and now you're shamelessly entering her room in the middle of the night?" Hamilton's

take it to heart; he could understand Hamilton's

woman you like getting close to

didn't mind letting Hamilton vent a

however, turned

close the

smile and unceremoniously shut the door

closed right

"Sir, do

glacial look

didn't dare say another word and

water, planning to make Ryan a

stopped her right

"What happened last night?"

with a guy, trying to

together instantly. "How come you didn't call me?" "There

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

He had been with

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

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

on, could you call me, no matter

Natalia smiled and nodded.

balanced his approach, not pressing further, and they switched topics to some issues

didn't stay

his oversight

Hamilton had pointed out, it was inappropriate for him to

chatting for a while, he stood up to

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

doing

was annoyed and frowned

have an epiphany. "Oh, did your

Hamilton's mouth twitched, but he didn't

idea of Natalia as his girlfriend

laugh, "Well, you'd better apologize quickly, then." Hamilton's brows furrowed. "She's

tough she is; you gotta try unless you don't want her as your girlfriend anymore." Hamilton's eyes flashed, and just as he

Natalia

lady paused, her gaze sweeping back and forth

a look of

I can't believe you turned out to be the

as dark

had never been spoken to

His voice was firm

lady still looked disgusted. "But she lets him into her

Hamilton's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

explain, the lady had

heavy chill

turned to Ryan. "Be careful

nodded, then looked at

you going

cold laugh. "What's it

smiled and turned back to

sure you lock the

Natalia nodded.