
My name is Chloe Sterling, sole heir to the multi-billion-dollar Sterling empire. At college, I used Smith and kept the rest to myself. I paid for my boyfriend Liam and my roommate Mia whenever they needed help. Meals, clothes, the apartment: I covered all of it and never kept score. I thought they were the two people I could trust. Then someone posted a photo of my family’s red diamond and called me a sugar baby. The trail led straight to Liam and Mia. Tonight, I am outside our apartment, listening to them kiss and plan what to take from me next. They still think Chloe Smith has nothing left to take back.

The post went up at 9:14 on a Tuesday morning, three minutes after my first class let out. The account had no profile picture and three followers, but the photo it posted was unmistakable: the red diamond, resting on the black velvet tray in my grandmother's jewelry case, photographed at close range with a phone that had shaky hands. The caption read: *Chloe Smith's sugar daddy really knows how to thank his girl. Wonder what she's paying him back with.* By 9:30, the screenshot had crossed the campus group chats. By noon, someone had added a second post: the diamond beside a blurry photo of me at a party, with the caption *gold digger spotted.* I sat in the back of the library and read the comments with my phone face-down on the table, because I did not want anyone to see my hands shake
