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 Powell

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

Alden hurriedly agreed.

upon opening WhatsApp. He quickly tried calling her, only to find her

sense of

back to

Hamilton went straight to Scarlett's, but no one

hearing Hamilton was looking for her,

Scarlett finished her shift to

"Where's Natalia?"

eyes blazed

have any idea she

was etched with pain, "Where

I did, I

Scarlett walked away, leaving Hamilton with a sinking

He dialed Killian immediately.

"Where did Natalia go?"

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

Mr. Fowler,"

movements these last few days, see if she left Silkwood

Killian hurried to comply.

Then, Hamilton called Caspian.

go to

Caspian hesitated.

still hung up

without her, I might have died in River

knowing all too well the depth of Hamilton's troubled

his grand effort

grandson's spirits, had invited several

he had

or seven years old, but he

solitary, odd, never smiling, nor engaging

he'd just sit alone in the yard, looking like someone unable to blend into

to be just

later, it became apparent that it was

still crystal clear

nap, he decided to wander and found himself in Hamilton's

unlocked, so he slipped

a scene he

with a pillow by his own mother, who

you shouldn't even exist in

mother could do such a

Cruel, full of venom.

exist

kind of destruction does such a

only encountered such a scene once, but he had no

from River State that Hamilton gradually started cooperating with his

painful the therapy was,

memories, the therapist even