The headlines spread across the city before noon.
MYSTERY FOUNDER OF NOVAGENE IDENTIFIED.
EVELYN HART EMERGES AS THE BILLIONAIRE BEHIND THE BIOTECH GIANT.
Financial news channels replayed the story every few minutes. Social media exploded with speculation. Investors searched every article they could find, while business analysts debated how someone who had remained invisible for years could suddenly become one of the most influential women in the industry.
Evelyn switched off the television.
The silence that followed felt better than listening to strangers discuss her life.
She carried her cup of tea onto the apartment balcony. The city stretched beneath her, busy as always, but today it somehow looked different.
Or perhaps she was the one who had changed.
Her phone vibrated contin
