Rebirth Of The Heiress And The Tycoon's Lover (Alina) novel Chapter 240

Chapter 240

Chapter 240

AUTHOR’S POV

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Alina shook her head, her voice breaking the tension. “No.”

It was barely louder than a whisper, yet it pierced the silence like a bell.

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Her refusal silenced even the whispers. Every guest leaned forward, eyes wide, caught between disbelief and fascination.

“No,” she repeated, firmer this time, her chin trembling as her eyes welled. “You can’t just… come here, on my wedding day, and lay all of these things on me. You can’t.”

Lucian’s arm around her tightened protectively, his gaze locking on Damien with a hatred so intense it threatened to burn the cathedral down. His voice, low and lethal, carried a promise. “You’ve made a mistake coming here.”

Damien met his glare with equal ferocity, but the flicker in his eyes when he glanced at Alina betrayed something Lucian recognized all too well. Desperation.

The silence that filled the hall was suffocating. The air felt heavier with every passing second, and Alina’s heart thudded in her chest like it was trying to escape.

Darius Evergreen took a hesitant step forward, his usually calm demeanor now weighed with something fragile. “Alina,” he said softly, his voice steady but pleading, “please… give us a chance to explain.”

Her lips parted, disbelief flashing across her face. “Explain?” she repeated, her voice trembling before turning sharp. “You want to explain now? After all these years?”

Her tone rose, raw and cracking. “Where were you when I was in an orphanage? When I had nothing and no one? Where were you when I cried myself to sleep wondering why my parents didn’t want me?” Her words hit like glass shattering…each one sharp, cutting, trembling with restrained fury.

Alina did not speak much about her time in the orphanage before the Dawn’s family adopted her because it wasn’t a memory she like to remember.

Darius’s expression darkened with guilt. “You have every right to be angry,” he said quietly. “But if you’ll just listen-”

“No,” Alina interrupted, her voice breaking. “No! You don’t get to stand here and ask me to listen. You weren’t there, any of you! You say I have a family now…but where was that family when I needed them most?”

Her voice echoed through the cathedral, leaving an aching silence behind.

Darius’s expression faltered, his hand tightening slightly on the armrest of Luna’s wheelchair. Luna herself seemed on the verge of tears, her trembling hand reaching toward Alina, but her voice was barely a whisper.

“Please, baby-”

“No,” Alina cut her off, her tone harsh but her eves glassv. “Don’t. Don’t call me that. You don’t get to call me

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that.” Her voice wavered. “You lost that right the moment you left me to grow up thinking I had nobody”

Lucian’s jaw tightened. He wanted to step in, to shield her from the pain clawing up her throat, but he knew this was something she needed to face.

Darius exhaled heavily. “You have every right to be angry, Alina,” he said quietly. “But things were….. complicated. You didn’t end up in that orphanage by choice or neglect. It wasn’t that we didn’t look for you-”

Alina laughed, a hollow, broken sound. “Then how? How did I end up there, if not because you didn’t care enough to come for me?”

The silence that followed was deafening. Darius hesitated, glancing briefly at his son. Damien’s jaw flexed, and for a moment, he looked as though he wanted to say nothing at all. But when Alina’s sharp, demanding and wounded eyes met his, his composure cracked.

“It was my fault,” Damien admitted finally, his voice rough, carrying both shame and resignation.

Alina blinked. “What?”

He swallowed hard, lowering his gaze for the first time. “You were… you were a child. Four years old. And I was nine. There was so much chaos back then. Our family was dealing with a lot…internal fights, business threats, security issues. Father was at war with half the city, and Mother was recovering from surgery. I just…” He stopped, his throat bobbing. “I wanted to give you a day out. Just you and me, away from the noise, So I took you to the park.”

Her lips parted slightly, confusion and disbelief flickering in her eyes as she tried to reach for that distant

memory.

“I left you for a moment,” Damien continued, his voice shaking now. “Just a moment…to buy you your favorite ice cream. But when I came back…” He dragged in a breath, the memory choking him. “You were gone. Completely gone. I searched everywhere, Alina. I swear I did. I screamed your name until my voice broke.”

Alina stood frozen. Her face had gone pale, her expression blank as her mind tried to process what she was hearing.

She didn’t wander away, she had been stolen that much she knew now.

Her breathing faltered, her mind spinning. “So,” she whispered, her voice shaking, “when you told me that you came here looking for your sister… you were talking about me?”

Damien hesitated, then nodded once. “Yes.”

Her lips trembled, the pain in her voice sharp and unsteady. “So all this time… all those moments you spent around me, pretending to like me, it wasn’t because you cared?” Her voice cracked, but she forced the words out. “It was because you suspected I was your sister?”

Damien’s face twisted slightly, his expression a mixture of regret and discomfort. “It wasn’t about feelings,” he said carefully. “I stayed close because I needed to be sure. I needed proof. I wanted a DNA sample, not a relationship.”

Her breath caught in her throat. The hurt that flashed through her eyes was quiet but deep…like a wound reopened without warning.

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