Rebirth Of The Heiress And The Tycoon's Lover (Alina) novel Chapter 249

Chapter 249

AUTHOR’S POV.

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Meanwhile, outside the room, Lucian stopped and drew a long, unsteady breath. His palm pressed hard against his chest as though he could keep his heart from breaking apart completely. The pain was sharp, hollow, and heavy all at once…but what tore through him most was the image of Alina’s face when he’d left.

That look…shattered, confused, betrayed, it would haunt him far longer than any wound ever could.

He leaned against the wall, shutting his eyes. He could still hear her voice echoing in his head, each word laced with anger and pain, cutting deeper than she’d ever know.

She thought he’d given up on her. She thought he didn’t care. But the truth was, he was doing the one thing he swore he’d never do again, letting her go.

For her own good.

The memory of that morning burned through his mind like acid, the anonymous call, the mechanical voice on the other end that spoke with quiet certainty.

“If you go through with the wedding, you are only putting a target on her back.””

The man hadn’t given a name, but Lucian didn’t need one. The cold confidence, the distorted voice, the veiled threat…it was him. Lucian had a feeling he was the same person who had also killed Silas and Elena, the one who’d been lurking in the shadows since the beginning.

Lucian had no doubt that the call wasn’t an empty threat.

That monster had already proven what he was capable of.

But what exactly did he want?

He forced his breathing to steady, jaw clenching as he looked toward the grand hallway leading out of the Evergreen wing. Alina would be safer with them once in Ravienne, he told himself. The Evergreen manor was practically a fortress, armed guards, reinforced security, layers of surveillance. Nothing went in or out without Darius’s command. Lucian could protect her better from the outside… at least that’s what he kept telling himself.

Footsteps approached behind him, soft yet

Ace.

deliberate.

He stopped a few steps away, his gaze sharp as it moved over Lucian’s rigid frame. “You good, boss?”

Lucian didn’t look at him, his voice calm but hollow. “I’m fine.”

Ace frowned. He knew that tone. It wasn’t fine, it was everything but. “With all due respect, sir, you look like a

man who’s about to set the world on fire.”

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Lucian gave a dry, humorless exhale. “Not yet.”

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Ace’s eyes narrowed slightly. “You’re really just gonna let her go like that? Let her marry someone else?” His disbelief cracked through the silence. “That’s not you, Lucian. You don’t walk away from what’s yours.”

Lucian’s jaw flexed. His hands balled into fists, veins taut under his skin. “You think I want this?” he muttered, his voice low, threaded with restrained rage. “You think it doesn’t kill me to see her look at me like that? Like I’m the enemy?”

Ace didn’t answer. He didn’t need to.

Lucian turned his head slightly, eyes dark and distant. “I’m not doing this because I want to, Ace. I’m doing it because I have to. She’s safer with them.”

He swallowed hard, forcing the words past the lump in his throat. “That man is still out there. He is the same one who took Silas and Elena. I can feel it…he’s watching. Waiting. And until I find him… until I end this… she’s not safe with me.”

Ace’s expression hardened. “So what…you’re just gonna sit back and do nothing? That’s not the Lucian I know.”

Lucian’s lips curved in a grim, humorless smirk. “You know me better than that.”

He straightened, the pain in his eyes momentarily replaced by cold determination. “We’re not doing nothing. We’re going to find that man. Every lead, every hidden connection, I want it all. Use everything we’ve got. Pull from our international contacts if you have to. I don’t care how long it takes. I want his name, his face, his past… I want everything.”

Ace nodded slowly, recognizing the dangerous calm in his tone. “And what about Alina?”

Lucian’s gaze drifted toward the closed door again, softer now, the steel in his eyes momentarily giving way to longing. “Once I end this,” he said quietly, “I’ll go back for her. I’ll make things right.”

Ace hesitated, then asked the question neither of them wanted to voice. “And what if by the time you do, she’s married to whoever she was betrothed to?”

For a moment, Lucian said nothing. Then his lips lifted into a faint, dangerous smirk…the kind Ace had seen only when Lucian was about to start a war.

“Then,” he said, stepping forward, voice dropping into a quiet, lethal drawl, “we just need to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Ace arched a brow. “And if it does?”

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