Teasers: New York wakes to chaos.
Overnight, Hartman Holdings stocks plummet twenty‑seven percent. News anchors call it “the beginning of the end for old finance dynasties.”
Evelyn arrives at headquarters flanked by Luca, stepping through a sea of flashing cameras—all calm spine and clipped heels. Every step is a statement: not defeated, not yet.
Inside, the boardroom resembles a battlefield—investors demanding resignation, allies fracturing. Adrian’s evidence has bought her truth but cost him everything; Blackwood Enterprises is under investigation for aiding the fraud.
When the storm of questions breaks, she faces the press alone.
“Did you know the man who once betrayed you tried to redeem himself?”
“Do you still trust Adrian Blackwood?”
“Are you two—”
She smiles neat and lethal.
