He Threw Me to the Wolves for His Stepsister

He used her deepest childhood trauma as live bait for his party. Now, the billionaire heiress is about to strip him of everything.The night before her engagement party, Elena Vance was lured into the dark, desolate woods of a private wildlife reserve during an elite night hunt. Pretending to be startled, her fiancé's manipulative stepsister shoved Elena off the armored safari jeep, locked the reinforced doors, and left her shivering in the dirt as live bait for wild wolves and hyenas.Upstairs on the open canopy deck, wealthy elites held up crystal whiskey glasses, shining high-beam halogen headlights down on her while the stepsister mocked her into the microphone: "e;Let everyone see what she looks like begging for mercy."e;Her fiancé, Lucas Sterling, stood right beside them, swirling bourbon over ice. His voice was cold and dismissive: "e;Let her stay outside. She survived wild beasts as a kid—what's ten minutes in the dark now?"e;He knew she had barely survived a savage wolf attack in the pitch dark as a child. He knew she suffered from severe wilderness trauma. Yet, he used her worst nightmare as a sadistic party trick to amuse his stepsister.They thought Elena was a helpless Cinderella clinging to his wealth. They were catastrophically wrong.Elena didn't beg. She struck a magnesium flare, tamed the alpha predators, and smashed the jeep's hydraulic valves open with a steel crowbar just as a fleet of armored tactical helicopters thundered from the sky. Wiping blood and mud from her cheek, she tossed his worthless diamond ring into the sludge and dialed her private military counsel:"e;Freeze every mining license for Sterling Mining first thing tomorrow morning. Halt their exports, lock their credit lines, and send tonight's night-vision surveillance to the authorities. Attempted murder and illegal endangerment—don't miss a single charge."e;Lucas Sterling thought he owned her world. He never knew that Elena was the sovereign owner of the entire five-thousand-acre reserve, the controller of his country's core mineral monopolies, and his absolute creditor.