Chase Sterling always felt like furniture. The kind you don't notice, the kind that's easy to shove in a corner and forget. He was used to it: people looked right through him, brushed him off like lint. But it only takes one phone call to erase a lifetime of being overlooked. When his estranged family meets a tragic end, Chase suddenly finds himself in charge of the sprawling Sterling fortune. Turns out, riches aren't the only thing the family left him. There's a curse running through his blood, warping love into something hungry and dangerous, impossible to escape.

Vivian Ashford never set out to blow Chase's life to smithereens. Just one decision (a sharp, ruthless move at graduation) was all it took to set their worlds spinning out of control. While Vivian soaks up the Hollywood limelight and collects red-carpet headlines, Chase slips into his new role as Manhattan's most intimidating heir. But no matter how far they run, something keeps yanking them back together, like a stitch in an old wound that refuses to heal.

Ethan, Sienna, and Elise organize intervention for Chase exactly three days after office confrontation where I screamed that he'd become his father, exactly when rampage shows no signs of stopping despite casualties mounting, exactly when someone needs to try preventing complete transformation into monster Dominic is proud of creating.


They don't tell me about intervention beforehand. Don't invite me. Specifically exclude me because my presence would make Chase defensive instead of receptive, would turn intervention into continuation of warfare instead of attempt at helping.


I only learn about it afterward. Through Ethan's text describing what happened. Through his testimony about intervention that failed completely.


Chapter 169 - Intervention