My Heart only Beats for You (Natalie Godfrey)
Chapter 573

Hayden Whitlock.

His name flashed through her mind. She was almost certain that Hayden was her son.

Natalie's gaze softened when she thought of Hayden.

He was her flesh and blood.

No wonder she liked him immediately when she first met him, and he immediately took a liking to her too. Maybe this was the bond that they had as mother and son? That day, Natalie went to see Hayden in his kindergarten.

She peered through the fence and watched as Hayden played football with his classmates. He looked smart and cute in his uniform.

A proud smile crept into the corners of her mouth.

Hayden was the best player among the group of children. No one could beat him.

They took a break after the first match ended. Hayden walked towards the bench and grabbed his towel to wipe the sweat off his forehead.

Natalie was amazed by his independence. He was indeed mature beyond his age, since the other children were still waiting for their teachers to help them clean up. Suddenly, he stopped.

He whipped his head around and looked to his left as if he had noticed something.

Then, his eyes lit up with excitement as he ran towards Natalie.

Natalie's heart beat heavily against her chest.

Now that she knew who Hayden was to her, she started to see him differently from before.

"Natalie, you're here! No wonder I felt that someone was staring at me. It's you," Hayden exclaimed happily.

Natalie couldn't help but giggle when she saw how elated he was.

"Yes. It's me, Hayden."

Her eyes lingered on his little face as she took in his facial features.

His skin was smooth and fair, and he had huge round eyes that looked like olives. His lashes were long and thick, just like her own.

"Did you go travelling these days? Now that you are back, you can come home now. Please put me to bed tonight!" Hayden tried to appeal to her.

Natalie suddenly froze.

She could never go back anymore.

"I can't go back anymore, Hayden. I will be staying at my own place, but you are welcome to come visit and stay over! I can put you to bed, and I will also come to your kindergarten to see you more often." Natalie tried to put on a cheerful tone as she spoke to Hayden.

She didn't want him to feel sad because of what happened between her and Tobias.

Hayden pouted and looked pretty upset.

"Natalie, I thought you wanted to be my stepmother! How can you live elsewhere if you wanted to be my stepmother? No, I don't want to."

Natalie felt her heart crack.

"Don't say that, Hayden. Your Dad and I will never be together."

"Why not?" Hayden's eyes widened in disbelief, "My dad is the most handsome here that all the other dads in this kindergarten can't compare to him. Are you sure you don't want such an excellent man like my dad, Natalie?"

Natalie did not know how to explain the situation to him.

She smiled sheepishly and averted the topic, "Let's not talk about this anymore, shall we?"

Although Hayden was still young, he was pretty observant.

He kept quiet.

"When will you come and visit me again?" He asked a while later.

Natalie pondered over his question and remembered that the next day was a weekend.

"How about tomorrow? I'll bring you shopping and I'll cook something for you. What do you think?"

Hayden jumped in excitement, "Yes, let's do that."

Natalie nodded and made a pinky promise with him. "Alright then. See you tomorrow."

Natalie was in a better mood after leaving the kindergarten.

Hayden was now the only person who could make her happy.

She then headed to the hospital to visit Remington. As she walked down the hospital corridor, she spotted Benjamin sitting on the bench and sighing from a distance.

In fact, he looked quite funny just sitting there.

Natalie stopped in her tracks.

She was surprised to replace that Benjamin hadn't left.

Eventually, she decided to leave the hospital.

She had to visit Remington since he was injured beca of her.

At the same time, she had just regained her memories and was still in the middle of sorting her own emotions out. The sight of Benjamin automatically reminded her of Tobias. Though, avoiding him was not an option.

Natalie stopped when she reached the entrance of the hospital.

Constantly escaping from reality was not going to solve any problems of her own.

What happened had already happened, and she couldn't erase those memories nor turn back time.

Besides, she was co- parenting Hayden with Tobias. She couldn't always avoid him in the future.

She had to be aloof.

After she thought it through, she felt much better.

However, she had already walked out of the hospital, and there was no reason for her to go back now.

She decided that she could visit Remington the next day instead.

It was still early, and noon hadn't arrived yet.

Selina was probably still sleeping. Otherwise, she would have already called Natalie after realizing that she wasn't home.

Natalie walked into a bakery nearby and bought some pastries for herself.

Just then, she suddenly thought of something.

It was an incident that happened before she lost her memory.

At that time, she was investigating her true identity, but unfortunately, she lost her memory before replaceing out who she really was. With that, Natalie decided that she should go and look for Madison.

She should start from Madison.

Later, she went back to the Godfrey family's home.

Madison was not at home when she and Selina were held captive by Brayden and Queenie the night before.

They were probably captured by Tobias' minions now, so Madison would probably be aware of this. Maybe she was home then.

However, no one answered the door even after she had knocked on it for some time.

Instead, a neighbor who was living opposite to them heard her knocking. He swung the door open and peeked out.

"Who are you looking for?"

Natalie rarely came to visit, so the neighbors did not know who she was.

She told them she was looking for Madison.

"Madison? She has been gone for quite some time," The neighbor said.

Natalie was shocked.

"Is she dead?"

Did Madison die when Natalie was suffering from amnesia?

The neighbor looked embarrassed as he quickly cleared it up, "No, no. She's not dead."

Natalie bit her lip.

She had misunderstood the neighbor.

Natalie was about to say something when the neighbour suddenly whispered, "She hasn't been here for a long time. I heard someone saying that they saw her being taken away by a few people." Natalie's heart almost jumped out of her mouth.

She hurriedly thanked the neighbor and left.

Her senses told her that Tobias had kidnapped Madison.

She had lived with the Godfrey family for so many years, and she knew that Madison had few enemies, save for Tobias. He was the only suspect.

She immediately pulled out her phone.

She wanted to call Tobias and ask him about it.

Yet, she couldn't bring herself to call him.

Although she had told herself to act as if nothing had happened between them, she...

Her phone suddenly rang when she was hesitating.

The sudden phone call caught her off guard, and she almost dropped her phone.

She glanced at the screen. It was from Selina.

"Natalie, where have you been? I just woke up, and I couldn't replace you," Selina said.