The Heiress's Reckoning

The Heiress's Reckoning

Gavin

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The news of Ryan Lester' s return shattered the carefully constructed peace of my elite Austin life. My childhood fiancé, the golden boy, was back, and the high society gossip channels were buzzing. But for me, the heir to the Clarkson oil fortune, his reappearance meant one painful thing: the man I truly loved, Ethan Lester, was about to be discarded. I found Ethan at my gate, drenched and bruised, his eyes broken as he asked if he was just a stand-in, a placeholder for the "real deal" - his cruel half-brother. All these years, I' d poured my heart, my resources, into transforming this scorned, illegitimate son from a stray dog into a confident, powerful man. I' d paid lawyers to exhume his mother' s body from a pauper' s grave, tutors to get him into university, and used my father' s connections to put him on the path to corporate power. I had seen through Ryan's polished facade to the vicious cruelty beneath, sacrificing my own supposed destiny to champion Ethan. Now, the family that had tried to erase Ethan was bringing Ryan home to reclaim his birthright and put my love back in his place. But they didn' t understand: I wasn' t just a rich girl playing savior. I was a strategist, and the game had just begun. I would make sure Ryan Lester lost everything, and Ethan Lester, my wolf, would finally take his rightful crown.

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The news of Ryan Lester' s return shattered the carefully constructed peace of my elite Austin life.

My childhood fiancé, the golden boy, was back, and the high society gossip channels were buzzing.

But for me, the heir to the Clarkson oil fortune, his reappearance meant one painful thing: the man I truly loved, Ethan Lester, was about to be discarded.

I found Ethan at my gate, drenched and bruised, his eyes broken as he asked if he was just a stand-in, a placeholder for the "real deal" - his cruel half-brother.

All these years, I' d poured my heart, my resources, into transforming this scorned, illegitimate son from a stray dog into a confident, powerful man.

I' d paid lawyers to exhume his mother' s body from a pauper' s grave, tutors to get him into university, and used my father' s connections to put him on the path to corporate power.

I had seen through Ryan's polished facade to the vicious cruelty beneath, sacrificing my own supposed destiny to champion Ethan.

Now, the family that had tried to erase Ethan was bringing Ryan home to reclaim his birthright and put my love back in his place.

But they didn' t understand: I wasn' t just a rich girl playing savior.

I was a strategist, and the game had just begun.

I would make sure Ryan Lester lost everything, and Ethan Lester, my wolf, would finally take his rightful crown.

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