Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 285

Natalia froze in place, her smile fading as quickly as it appeared.

She reached for her phone on the nightstand, but it remained devoid of any messages.

Hamilton hadn't shown up, not even a text.

Maybe something came up with Eveleen again.

Natalia shook her head.

"It's not worth it anymore."

Scarlett frowned at her.

"Natalia, raising a kid on your own is going to be tough."

And it wouldn't be fair to the child either.

This child, unlike the last one, was conceived when Hamilton actually had feelings for Natalia.

They seemed so in love just a while ago.

Natalia's nose tingled.

"Scarlett, I can't do this."

Scarlett was taken aback, only to hear Natalia say, "I'm scared. I'm scared this child will end up like the last one, unwanted by the Fowler family. They won't let me keep this child. I'm scared it'll end up just like my mom." Scarlett's heart ached.

"Alright, then we won't tell him. We'll leave this place. I'm going for a study program, come with me. Once the baby is born and grown a bit, we can come back."

Natalia held back tears, "I've decided to take that transfer."

Trying to smile through her tears, she added, "I was going to turn it down because of Hamilton."

Scarlett opened her mouth to speak but ended up embracing her instead.

"We don't need that jerk. When your baby is born, I'll help you raise them."

Natalia laughed, "Okay."

Hamilton saw Natalia's message the next day.

Eveleen's funeral had been chaotic with the Schafer family causing endless problems. The caretaker claimed she was just overwhelmed and pushed someone in frustration, but the Schafer family insisted Eveleen was murdered, pointing fingers at Natalia. Hamilton looked at a photo of Eveleen on the wall, his emotions a complex mix.

His memories of their childhood were limited, mostly painful, with "Evi" being a rare comfort amidst the suffering.

But he never imagined this would be their end.

Clutching a necklace, Hamilton eventually got back into his car.

"Have those people been interrogated yet?" he asked in a low voice.

Alden frowned, "They did have contact with grandfather's bodyguard and admitted he instructed them to come."

A chill flashed through Hamilton's eyes.

Mason and

a few chess games with grandpa, always alone, while the Powell family, unusually quiet, didn't make a

Hamilton's expression grew colder.

NorthSuburb project. Also, tell the Ron Group's branch office

Alden hurriedly agreed.

contact Natalia but froze upon opening WhatsApp. He quickly tried calling

sense of

to the

went straight to Scarlett's, but no one answered. Next, he

Hamilton was looking for her, refused to see

her shift to finally

"Where's Natalia?"

blazed with

Do you have any idea she

etched with pain,

sidestepped him, "I don't know, and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you.

away, leaving Hamilton with

He dialed Killian immediately.

"Where did Natalia go?"

fainted at the cemetery and spent a day in the hospital.

Fowler," Killian

her movements these last

Killian hurried to comply.

Then, Hamilton called Caspian.

go to Boria

Caspian hesitated.

you still hung

without her, I might have died in

knowing all

his grand

several children from

them, he had

six or seven years old, but he lacked the usual vibrancy of

never smiling, nor engaging in play,

alone in the yard, looking like someone unable to blend into the

it was thought to be just a quirk

it became apparent that

still crystal

he decided to wander

unlocked,

a scene

a pillow by his own mother,

even exist in this

a mother could do such a thing to her

Cruel, full of venom.

exist

such a sentence wreak on

such a scene once, but he had no idea how many times the young Hamilton

only after returning from River State that Hamilton gradually started cooperating

the therapy was, nobody

make him forget those painful memories,