Echoes Of a Forsaken Heart

Chapter 53
Hamilton returned home after dropping Eveleen off, and the clock had already
struck past ten at night.
As he stepped through the front door, the nanny’s voice caught his attention.
“Mr. Fowler, you've finally returned. Ms. Jenkins has come down with a fever.”
Hamilton paused mid—step as he was taking off his shoes, a frown creasing his
forehead.
“How did she get a fever?” he asked as he strode towards the bedroom.
He pushed open the bedroom door only to find it empty. His expression darkened
instantly, “Where is she?”
“Ms. Jenkins went to the hospital.”
As he stared at the nanny, his face was growing stormier by the second, “Why
didn’t you go with her?”
The nanny seemed uncomfortable, “Ms. Jenkins insisted she could manage on
her own. I wanted to accompany her, but she wouldn't allow it.”
Hamilton's scowl deepened, “So you let her go alone just because she said no?
Do you not understand that she’s sick? How could you just let her go by herself?”
His voice carried a natural authority, and now, tinged with anger, it was enough to
leave the nanny speechless.
Hamilton gave the nanny
a hard look, then said after a moment of silence, “Given her current condition,
you should accompany her wherever she goes from now on.”
“Understood.” The nanny replied.
Hamilton nodded curtly and pulled out his phone. It was only then that he noticed
a missed call from Natalia at six o'clock in the evening. The call had gone
through, but the record showed only a few seconds.
Around six o'clock...
Hamilton's eyes narrowed slightly. That was precisely when he had gone to pick
up Eveleen.
At that time, the only other person in his office had been Victor.
Hamilton's face turned to stone, his eyes filled with displeasure. Victor's interest
in Natalia was too much. Even now, despite his occasional disparaging remarks
about her, he just couldn't hide the keenness in his eyes whenever he looked at
Natalia.
Hamilton was not one to begrudge other men’s interest in Natalia; several of his
buddies fancied her, but he didn’t care much.
As he had said before, as long as Natalia didn’t engage in any untoward relations
with other
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men while with him, he wouldn't mind. But that did not mean he would tolerate
any secret
meetings between her and another man behind his back.
With a stony expression, Hamilton dialed out. However, there was no answer. He
had thought perhaps Natalia hadn't seen the call.
But after the second and third calls went unanswered, his face contorted with
fury.
Natalia, seeing his name flashing on her screen, simply flipped her phone face
down on the table.
She didn’t want to take Hamilton's call right now. She didn’t even want to see his
name.
A sense of imbalance gnawed at her.
It wasn't the first time she had been left behind for Eveleen. But this time, it felt
unbearable. She was begrudging him because the recent loss of baby, and that
was when Hamilton chose to be with Eveleen instead of her, who caught a fever.
A twinge of hurt surged within her. So hurt that she didn’t want to hear his voice
or take his call, regardless of how angry or upset he might get.
Scarlett, after finishing her tasks, entered with a medicine tray, “How are you
feeling? Any
better?”
Natalia nodded slightly, “Much better. The pain’s not so bad now.”
Scarlett touched her forehead, “The fever’s down for now, but you should keep
the IV in. Stay here tonight, okay?”
“Okay.” Natalia agreed without a second thought. She didn’t want to go back
home tonight
anyway.
Scarlett gestured towards Natalia’s arm. “Let me change that dressing for you.”
She said.
Natalia nodded.
Scarlett stood by the bed to unwind the bandage carefully.
When she saw the wound, her brow furrowed, “Does it hurt?”
Natalia, enduring the pain, glanced at the injury and quickly looked away, “It's
manageable.”
“Manageable? Your face is white from the pain,” Scarlett said as she efficiently
changed the dressing. “That wound’s surely going to leave a scar. Do you still
have that scar cream at home?”
Natalia nodded.
She had often been left battered and bruised by her stepfather Graham Jenkins
in the past, so she frequently used scar cream back then. And she always kept
some at home, just in
case.
“And that fan who caused all this trouble, what happened in the end?” Scarlett
asked as her
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concern knitted her brows.
“We're pursuing legal action as usual.”
“So, you're just going to let it go? Not going to dig any deeper?”
Natalia scoffed, “And what else can we do? The authorities have already
concluded that Eveleen had nothing to do with it.”
Besides, Hamilton was shielding Eveleen so closely that even mentioning her
name could provoke his ire. How was Natalia supposed to investigate?
“They can’t keep it a secret as long as they did it. If you can't look into it, then
maybe I can infiltrate Eveleen’s fan group and see what I can find.”
Natalia’s gaze dropped to the phone on the bedside table. Hamilton had stopped
calling after five attempts. She wondered if he was angry or if he had simply
given up on her.
After a moment of silence, Natalia finally spoke, “Let it be. It's not worth it.”
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Even if there's evidence, Hamilton is
unlikely to do anything to Eveleen.
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Instead, he'd blame me for snooping.
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Don't you see? Hamilton has already
paid a settlement to hush things. So
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do you really think he's never
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If Hamilton had never doubted Eveleen, why would he offer Natalia that money
with his temperament? So he was suspecting Eveleen just like she was.
But even with his suspicions, he still chose to hush things up with money.
“Why is Eveleen treated like such a delicate flower? What's so special about her?
Is Hamilton blind?”
Natalia couldn’t understand Hamilton's feelings for Eveleen.
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Alden once said that Hamilton saw
Eveleen as the only light in his
otherwise dark life, and later she
wondered what kind of experience it
was that would make Hamilton think
“ : “
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She couldn't figure it out.
“Men all have their preferences. Maybe he’s just smitten with Eveleen’s type.”
Natalia assumed.
Scarlett couldn't help but snort at her remark, “What preferences? More like a
tramp with a mutt! If Eveleen’s the tramp, then Hamilton is a purebred
douchebag!”
Natalia cracked up at Scarlett’s blunt analogy.
They chatted for a bit longer before Scarlett took her leave.
Once Scarlett was gone, Natalia finally picked up her phone and texted Hamilton:
[Won't be home tonight.]
After sending the message, she stared at her phone in a daze. She knew it was
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unlikely that Hamilton would respond. But as the phone remained silent, a pang
of discomfort settled in her chest.
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With a soft sigh, she set the phone
aside and went to freshen up in the
bathroom. When she reemerged, she
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He was dressed in a black silk shirt which was soaked to the skin and clinging to
his frame, and his hair was also damp with rain. He must have braved the storm
to get here.
“You...” Natalia was momentarily at a loss for words, and after a moment she
managed to ask, “Why are you here?”
Hamilton's gaze was heavy as he looked at her. He didn’t answer hers, but just
countered with his own question, “Why didn’t you answer your phone?”