Tainted Hearts: My Toxic Billionaire
READING AGE 16+
He proposed with everything he had. She said no before she knew what he was worth.
Chase Sterling spent four years pretending to be nobody, working restaurant shifts and tutoring rich kids, just to find out if the girl he loved could love him without his family's fortune attached. On graduation morning, he asked her to marry him with a ring he'd saved three months to afford.
She called him a nobody and walked away.
Forty five minutes later, the whole world found out Chase Sterling is heir to a forty seven billion dollar empire. And Vivian Ashford, valedictorian, golden girl, about to give the speech of her life, found out she'd just rejected the one thing she swore she'd never turn down again.
He didn't forgive her. He humiliated her in front of two thousand people instead, and the video hasn't stopped playing since.
Now their names are tangled together across every headline in the country, and no matter how far she runs or how cruel he gets, they cannot stay away from each other. Every scandal pulls them back into orbit. Every goodbye turns into something else.
Some people fall in love. Vivian and Chase are something more dangerous. They are addicted.
Unfold
Chase's POV
Power slams back into the elevator with a violent, mechanical jolt. Lights flare bright enough to blind us both for a full second, and Vivian jerks back so fast she nearly stumbles into the corner of the car. Her hand shoots out to steady herself against the wall. Neither of us moves for a moment, as if……
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