Yeah willingly going along with Hunter's plans and doing his bidding for so long makes me want to see him totally banished in a good ending along with the others. I also totally agree with the double standard issue that Fayn has talked about. Sterling took advantage of the drugging of the household and still benefits from it just like others here have said before, would there have ever been a chance for Sterling to woo these girls without the help of Hunter's mind control/drugs? But ultimately i don't care about being hypocritical i still want Sterling to win in the end because for me it's hard not to choose the MC over all other males in the story(because of projection i guess?)also because he still told Hunter to f off and didn't agree to share so that has to mean something right? But also i guess one could also argue that Hunter was also to blame for Sterling's lustful feelings towards the household? But anyway for me it's a weird gray area of lust and love and hard to pinpoint exactly where everyone lies inside this bubble. This also makes me wonder how everyone will react after the drugs stop being introduced to the household? Will they all be like Nora and Keira where they seem to have regret and dumbfounded at how something so wild between them and Hunter/Drew could of happened? I really hope we get a soppy love ending where the girls still love Sterling and are happy to have that type of relationship with him even though they know they were under the influence the entire time before. By the end the drugs/mind control has to be totally removed for it to be perfect.
It doesn't matter if Sterling knows about the drugging and 'took advantage of it' because he is probably the MOST affected by the drugs, remember that there are drugs in the whole cocktail that 'only affect males' (after those were introduced Sterling became way more aggressive) and even if he knows... what does it matter, he is still up to the gills on them, or can you stop slurring your speech and walk straight after realising you're drunk?. Sincerelly the glimpses of care and kindness the dude still displays are either a show that he is somewhat resisting or that his morals aren't completely broken if you're a glass half full kinda guy or a show that he is still totally himself and is just enjoying the ride regardless if you're a glass half empty kinda guy.
Continuing that point, the gas... is kind of a biggie, remember that the gas made Kumiko who hasn't had contact with all the drugs the rest of the family is on sexually assault Ophelia (and heck I think she isn't even attracted to women) and discovering the gas on the vents was the linchpin to blow the whole plan out of the water at the end of chapter 12 so nobody knew about the gas until very recently.
Are the characters stupid to not notice the gas? Yeah... there I agree, but again they are so high they are on pluto right now can't blame them much. Heck, Lucia who has seen how Hunter operates, knows all the info that Sterling knows, and I don't know how to put it but is kinda paranoid, but even she didn't sused out that she was being drugged until she enjoyed a kiss something that she knew there was no way she would do if she was fully herself.
And yeah, I've said a lot of times that in order for actual romance to happen here a detox is non-negotiable, but that I guess is for the epilogues, now it's the onlyfans for buying back the house. An ending where everyone goes "yeah, let's not stop consuming the horny drugs" would be more of a bad ending than Hunter winning for me, cuz they basically said that Hunter is correct.
But a scene with them detoxed and actually going 'ok... we don't regret what happened do we?' would be sweet.