All Chapters of HEIRESS REBORN: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Alina's Pov I should have known. Maybe not tonight. Maybe not exactly how it happened. But deep down, I think a part of me always knew something wasn’t right.The streetlight flickered above me as I stood outside the house I shared with my husband. I was numb. Cold. My fingers trembled around my phone, the screen still showing Nate’s name, and beneath it—voicemail.Again.I must’ve called him thirty times since the gala. Each unanswered ring felt like another nail in a coffin I didn’t even know we were building. I swallowed the lump in my throat and unlocked the front door, my heels clicking softly against the marble as I stepped inside.The silence was too heavy. The air, too still. My heels echoed like accusations against the marble floor as I stepped into the foyer. The lights were dimmed—odd, considering Nathaniel usually left them all blazing, claiming it made the house feel alive.But the house wasn’t alive. It was a mausoleum.The housekeeper, Rosa, appeared from the hallway,

Alina's Pov The woman in the sleek black suit sat on the chair next to my hospital bed like she owned the room, like this wasn't a room where my life had just crumbled. Theo stood beside her, older, grayer, but still the same kind-eyed man I remembered from childhood. Our family butler... until he vanished after my parents' funeral."What?" My voice was hoarse, rasping. Like it had fought a war to form the words.“We know this is sudden,” Margot said, her voice even and practiced, like a surgeon about to slice. “But there are things you need to know. Now that… everything’s changed.”My throat was still sore, the bruises from the accident—or attack, or whatever-the-hell it was—tight and raw around my neck. My body was an aching mass of bandages and gauze. I didn’t feel like myself. I didn’t even feel human.But I needed answers more than I needed pain meds.“What things?” I rasped, the words dry and gritty like sandpaper against my tongue.“The truth,” Theo replied simply. His voice w