Chase's POV
The pull quote hits before the full piece does, the way these things always do now - magazines teasing their biggest stories a week early to build anticipation. I read it standing in my kitchen at eleven at night, a coffee I don't remember making cooling in my hand. The apartment is silent except for the hum of the refrigerator, and somehow that silence makes the words on my screen feel louder.
"I think loving someone and being able to survive them are two different things," Vivian Ashford tells us. "I'm still figuring out which one this is."
I read the byline twice, as if repetition might change it. Ethan Beckett. attached to a profile my father's media monitoring team flagged an hour ago as the most anticipated Vivian Ashford coverage since the talk show interview I gave m
