The headline found her before breakfast.
She wasn’t looking for it. It surfaced mid-scroll between market updates and policy analysis, casual in tone, confident in implication.
Industry sources suggest internal friction may be rooted in personal resentment.
Evelyn tapped the link.
The commentator’s language was light, almost amused. Her “continued objections” reframed as emotional displacement. Liora’s “rapid ascent” positioned as the unspoken catalyst.
Jealousy, the piece implied, was more plausible than procedural dissent.
Evelyn read it twice, pulse steady. The phrasing was elegant in its dismissal. No direct accusation. Just suggestion. Motive replacing evidence.
“She’s threatened,” the analyst quoted an unnamed source. “It’s human.”
Human.
Her jaw tightened, not in anger, but
