Rebirth Of The Heiress And The Tycoon's Lover (Alina) novel Chapter 351

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The woman kept staring at Violet, her gaze soft but heavy with recognition, like she was looking at someone she had lost and found again all at once.

Lucian stepped in slightly, his voice calm but alert.

“You do?” he asked carefully. “You know her mother?”

The woman nodded, her lips curving into a sad little smile.

“Yes,” she said. “I do.”

Violet’s chest tightened. “You… you really knew her?” She asked again, wanting to be sure she wasn’t dreaming.

“Well….Knew her might be too strong a word,” the woman replied gently. “But I remember her well.”

Ace crossed his arms, eyes sharp. “How?”

The woman gestured vaguely around the library.

“She wasn’t really a member,” she admitted. “But she came here a lot. Almost every day, sometimes twice in one day.”

That explains why she wasn’t in the system.

Violet frowned slightly. “If she wasn‘

a member, how did she-”

“I sneaked her in,” the woman interrupted with a small, conspiratorial smile. “Rules didn’t matter much to me back then. And your mother…” She shook her head softly. “She needed a place like this.”

Lucian’s gaze sharpened. “What do

you mean?”

“She loved to read,” the woman continued. “But not just casually. She read like someone who was searching for something. Answers. Refuge. Maybe both.”

Violet’s hands trembled at her sides. “Where… where would she sit?”

The woman pointed toward the very back of the library.

“At a corner right at the back. Always that corner.”

All three of them turned instinctively to look,

The shelves there were taller, darker, more crowded.Books were stacked so tightly together they almost bowed under their own weight. It looked untouched and Forgotten.

Like a place meant to hide secrets.

The woman exhaled slowly, her expression turning distant.

“She told me you would come.”

Violer’s breath hitched, “She… she said that?”

“Yes,” the woman said. “She called me one night. Sounded franti Panicked. Like she was running out of time.

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Lucian stiffened slightly. Ace’s jaw tightened.

“She said, ‘If anything happens to me, Violet will come. And when she does, please help her.“”

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The woman’s voice cracked faintly. “I didn’t really understand what she was trying to say at the time. It sounded… dramatic.

But now…”

Her eyes filled with tears.

Violet felt her knees weaken. Lucian noticed immediately and moved closer, just enough that she could lean on him if she needed to.

The woman suddenly set the books she was holding down on the trolley with a soft clatter and reached out, gripping Violet’s hands.

“Are you okay, honey?” she asked gently. “Do you want to sit for a moment?”

Violet couldn’t speak. She just nodded.

The woman guided her toward the back, past rows of shelves, to a small reading area tucked away like it didn’t want to be found. A single wooden table. Two chairs. Dust floating lazily in the air.

Violet sat.

Lucian remained standing nearby, his posture protective, eyes scanning everything. Ace leaned against a shelf, pretending to look casual while actually memorizing every detail of the space.

The woman pulled out a chair and sat across from Violet.

“Take your time,” she said softly.

Violet swallowed hard. “She… she came here a lot?”

“Very,” the woman replied. “Sometimes she’d sit for hours without moving. Other times she’d pace, pull books off shelves, put them back, switch them around.”

Ace frowned. “Switch them around?”

The woman nodded. “Yes. She always read from that shelf.” She pointed again….his time more precisely. “Those books.”

Their gazes snapped to it.

The shelf looked ordinary. Old leather–bound spines. Some newer paperbacks. Nothing remarkable at first glance.

“She switched it up every day,” the woman continued. “Different books each time. So I can’t really tell you which one she read the most.”

Violet stared at the shelf like it was breathing.

“So… it could be any of them.”

Lucian spoke quietly, more to himself than anyone else.

“That’s exactly what I’d do too.”

Violet looked up at him. “What?”

“Hide it where it forces you to search,” he said. “Not one obvious book. But many.”

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The woman watched them carefully. “You’re looking for something, aren’t you?”

Violet hesitated, then nodded. “Yes.”

The woman reached across the table and squeezed her hand.

“Then I’m glad you came.”

Tears slid silently down Violet’s cheeks.

“Thank you,” she whispered. “Thank you so much. You don’t know what this means to me.”

The woman smiled sadly. “I think I do.”

Then, hesitantly, she asked,

“Is your mom okay though?”

The air changed.

Violet’s shoulders trembled.

She shook her head slowly.

“My mom is dead.”

The words landed heavy and final.

The woman’s hand flew to her mouth. “Oh… oh, honey.”

Violet’s voice barely held together. “She was killed.”

Silence swallowed the corner.

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Lucian’s fists clenched at his sides, rage simmering just beneath his skin. Ace looked away, jaw tight, giving Violet the dignity of privacy in her grief.

The woman stood and wrapped Violet in a gentle hug.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered. “She was a good woman. Brave. Even when she was afraid.”

Violet clung to her for a moment, then slowly pulled back, wiping her face.

Lucian stepped forward. “You said she sounded frantic on the phone.”

“Yes,” the woman nodded. “Like she knew something was coming”

“Did she ever say she was in danger?” Ace asked.

The woman hesitated. “Not directly. But she asked strange questions. About old records. About families that used to own things around here. She asked if anyone ever really disappears.”

Lucian exchanged a look with Ace.

“Did she ever leave anything behind?” Lucian asked. “Notes. Messages. Anything unusual?”

The woman thought carefully. “No notes that I saw. But…” She gestured toward the shelf again. “She always sat there. Always touched the books. Sometimes she’d open one, sometimes three sometimes none at all.”

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Violet stood slowly, walking toward the shelf like she was being

She ran her fingers along the spines.

“This is it,” she whispered.

Lucian joined her. “We’ll find it.”

Ace nodded. “Every single one if we have to.”

The woman watched them, then said quietly,

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