Rags to Ruthless: The Billionaire's Ruse

The candlelight hadn’t even flickered out on our first anniversary table before the video finished playing, stripping Carter’s dignity bare alongside his infidelity. He stood there, arrogant and cold, shielding Hazel as if he were the hero of a tragedy instead of a pawn in a game he didn't know I was playing. He thought he was breaking my heart; he had no idea he was just being evicted from a life he never earned. As the first reports of the Strauss Group’s stock collapse hit his phone, I signaled my butler and finally stopped pretending to be the penniless girl he could patronize. The stand-in’s time was up, my true love was returning from the shadows with a ring and a vengeance, and I was about to show Carter and Hazel exactly what happens when you mistake an heiress for a victim.