My Mafia Mother Raised Me Like a Stray Dog

On Vera Vance’s 25th birthday, an armored Rolls‑Royce shattered her 25‑year hardscrabble life. A blood heir of the wealthy Vance family, she was exiled at five to undergo brutal trials of hunger, violence and darkness, shaped for the “survival instinct” her family required. When her mother called the “experiment” ended and fetched her to gilded Vance Manor, Vera discovered harsh truths: her pampered elder sister Alice got all the family’s love, and her three‑year boyfriend was a hired actor.