POV: Vivian
The paparazzi photos hit every major outlet simultaneously at 6:47 AM on Tuesday, proving coordinated leak instead of random discovery, proving someone wanted maximum damage instead of just opportunistic coverage, proving our careful discretion for the past eight months wasn't careful enough.
The timestamp on the photos: 3:04 AM Monday morning. Location: my building entrance. Subject: Chase Sterling entering in clothes from previous evening, tie undone, clearly coming from somewhere that wasn't his penthouse, clearly staying until early morning hours, clearly conducting affair everyone suspected but couldn't prove until now.
My phone explodes with notifications. Publicist. Agent. Philippe. Studio executives. Everyone demanding explanation for photos proving what I've been denying for months: I'm having affair with Chase Sterling while maintaining fiction that we're both moved on successfully.
"VIVIAN ASHFORD AND CHASE STERLING: THE AFFAIR EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT"
