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Hayden, hiding in the kitchen, endures fear, exhaustion, and unsettling routines while witnessing Alexis’s accusations, celebrity comparisons, and bizarre claims. As the night spirals into a desperate plea not to be left, the story cuts to three months earlier, revealing Hayden’s strained work life in a celebrity-driven world.","THE LAST LIVING DIVA  \nA NOVEL  \nMATTHEW STEVENS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2025 by Matthew Stevens  \nAll rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characteristics, places, and incidents either are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nISBN Ebook: 979-8-9925352-2-8  \nISBN Paperback: 979-8-9925352-1-1  \nISBN Hardcover: 979-8-9925352-0-4  \nISBN Audiobook: 979-8-9925352-3-5  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo myself…  \nfor making this happen when everyone told me I couldn’t.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nAlexis had been screaming all day. Up and down the grand staircase of her home she paced, stopping occasionally to let out bone-chilling howls at the top of her lungs, over and over again, as if she were in some sort of trance.  \nIn the kitchen, I hid behind the island, holding back tears of frustration and fear, hoping she wouldn’t find me. I felt bad but I couldn’t speak to her anymore. I was too exhausted.  \nWas she having a nervous breakdown? This had been going on for three days and she still hadn’t slept—which meant that I hadn’t slept either. I was starting to wonder who was crazier—her for behaving this way, or me for staying?  \nIt had been days of paranoid rambling as she rattled off lists of her enemies and rivals, both real and imagined. The younger singer, to whom Alexis was often compared, she had nicknamed “Donut Licker.” The rapper who was publicly dragging her was “Troll Doll.” And the woman who’d tried to steal her career, actually wasn’t from the block—instead, Alexis said she just “blew a lot of cock.” She talked so fast it didn’t warrant a response. The only thing I could compare it to was the cocaine-addled party girls I’d seen traversing West Hollywood on the occasional Saturday night out. But Alexis was in a full-blown psychosis.  \n“I’m the star, Hayden,” she’d say, her body here but her eyes staring at some distant horizon only she could see.“I am the star.”  \nOnce an hour she disappeared for a few minutes to change her outfit, but other times she insisted I come with her to the closet. On our way there, she always gave me the same tour—as if I’d never seen it before—of this Beverly Hills compound, which she was renting to the tune of $150,000 a month. When I was a kid, I’d watched Alexis give a tour of her house to Robin Leach on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. She was in her prime then, and I never would have imagined I’d end up working for her. Now, the tour ended with her shutting me in her bedroom as she undressed, insisting I get underneath the sheets with her.  \n“I’m gay, Alexis!” I said.  \n“I don’t care!”  \nSometimes I got lucky and she’d tire of me. 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