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.

and the

few chess games with grandpa, always alone, while the Powell

Hamilton's expression grew colder.

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Alden hurriedly agreed.

temples, scrolled through his phone to contact Natalia but froze upon opening WhatsApp. He quickly tried calling her, only to find her

sense of

back to the

but

hearing Hamilton was looking for

Scarlett finished her shift to finally

"Where's Natalia?"

blazed

you have any idea she waited

with pain, "Where

I did,

walked away, leaving Hamilton with a

He dialed Killian immediately.

"Where did Natalia go?"

know she fainted at the cemetery and spent a day in the hospital. Then Dr. Scarlett dismissed me." Hamilton, frustrated, "And

Fowler,"

"Find out her movements these last

Killian hurried to comply.

Then, Hamilton called Caspian.

Natalia go to Boria

Caspian hesitated.

hung

"Caspian, without her, I might

words, knowing all too well the

his grand

his precious grandson's spirits, had invited several children from long-standing

among them, he had

seven years old, but he lacked the usual vibrancy of

was solitary, odd, never smiling, nor engaging in play,

in the yard, looking like someone unable to blend into the world around

thought to be just a

it became apparent that it

it's still crystal clear in

nap, he decided to wander and found

unlocked, so he

scene he

with a pillow by his own mother, who was holding it down

shouldn't even exist in this world, just die, just

mother could do

Cruel, full of venom.

shouldn't exist

of destruction does such a

only encountered such a scene once, but he had no idea

only after returning from River State that Hamilton gradually started

therapy was,

forget those painful memories, the