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The Charity Project
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2026-06-18 18:11:44
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Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession Aftermath
POV: Chase SterlingI don't read the coverage.This is new. For nine months I have read everything, the tabloids and the gossip accounts and the entertainment blogs, because reading it was a form of control, knowing what was out there, knowing what narrative was running. I stopped doing that sometime between walking out of my own apartment on Saturday morning and now, which is Monday, and I have not read a single thing.I know it is bad because Callum has called six times and texted eleven and his messages have graduated from call me to please call me to Chase I am begging you which is three stages of Callum escalation that I have not previously reached simultaneously.I don't call him.I sit in the penthouse with the grimoire open and a glass of whiskey I poured at noon and have been nursing since and I look out the window at the city, which is doing its Monday thing of being entirely indifferent to my specific situation, which I appreciate about it.Helena came by yesterday and I di
Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession Breaking Point
POV: Vivian AshfordI go to him two days later.Not because I planned to. I wake up on a Saturday morning and I lie in bed for an hour thinking about the rain and the blood on his face and the way he said please like it cost him something, and then I get up and I get dressed and I get in the car.His building's security has had my name on a list since the charity collaboration started, which is a Callum decision I have never acknowledged and Chase has never mentioned, and the elevator takes me to the penthouse floor and I knock on his door at ten in the morning.He answers in a shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a coffee in his hand and the expression of someone who was not expecting me and is not surprised to see me, which is a combination that only Chase Sterling manages."Vivian," he says."We need to talk about the other night," I say.He steps back and lets me in.The penthouse looks lived in now, which is different from the last time I was here, the grimoire on the coffee tabl
Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession The Kiss in the Rain
POV: Vivian AshfordThe film gets a standing ovation and I cry in the bathroom afterward, which I will deny if anyone asks.It is the good kind of crying, the kind that happens when something you worked for actually lands the way you hoped it would, and I give myself three minutes with my back against the stall door before I fix my face and go back out to the afterparty, where Petra is still glowing and the champagne is very good and for once I am not thinking about Chase Sterling at all.Then it rains.February rain in LA hits fast and everyone scrambles inside, laughing and holding their drinks over their heads, and I step out of the way of the rush and end up under a narrow overhang on the side of the building where the rain is hitting the concrete two feet from my shoes and the cold air is a relief after two hours of warm indoor air and champagne.I hear him before I see him.He comes to stand beside me and neither of us says anything for a moment, just stands there getting partia
Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession Helena's Interference
POV: Vivian AshfordI find the photograph at seven in the morning with my first coffee, which is earlier than I usually check his name but which has been my habit since my mother told him about it and which I have not broken because breaking it would require admitting it exists in the first place.Elise Vanderwood.She is standing beside Chase at what looks like a Sterling Industries event, some industry thing, and she is beautiful in the way of women who have never had to work at being beautiful, and they are talking with their heads angled toward each other, and the photographer caught them at the angle that makes professional look personal.I look at it for a while.He is not looking at her the way he looks at me.I know how he looks at me. I have nine months of accumulated data on how Chase Sterling looks at me, which is not information I sought and which I have anyway, and whatever is in this photograph between him and Elise Vanderwood, it is not that.But it is seven in the morn
Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession The Charity Project
POV: Vivian AshfordThe first time I see Chase Sterling sit on a floor, I almost drop the purple crayons.We are three weeks into the collaboration and the pediatric oncology ward has become, against every expectation I had going in, the part of my week I look forward to most. The children here have the specific quality of people who have been through enough that they stopped performing for adults, and there is something in that directness that I find genuinely restoring after nine months of performing everything for everyone.Maya is seven and has opinions about color that she presents as facts, which they basically are. Theo is five and has Chase.That is how I think of it by the third visit. The way children in hospitals claim the adults who show up and keep showing up, and the claiming is complete and non-negotiable and Theo executed it on the first Tuesday without asking anyone's permission.What I did not anticipate is that Chase would let himself be claimed.I look up from the
Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession Alliance of Necessity
POV: Vivian AshfordThe email from the Hartwell Foundation arrives on a Wednesday, addressed to both me and to Sterling Industries, which I know because Diana forwards it to me with a note that reads: This is either an opportunity or a disaster. Possibly both.The Hartwell Foundation, which hosted the gala where the coatroom happened, which I do not think about, is launching a children's hospital fundraising campaign and wants two faces for it. Specifically they want two faces that the public is currently extremely interested in, which is a polite way of saying they want to capitalize on the fact that #SterlingAshford is still generating engagement three weeks after the underground club video.They want Chase and me to co-chair the campaign.Jointly.For six weeks.I read the email twice.I call Diana."Tell me the numbers," I say."The campaign would generate significant profile for you at a moment when your profile is already high but the valence is complicated," she says. "Charity
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