Press confirmed. Dean has final announcement.
I replied:
Proceed. No family references. Keep it professional.
My driver glanced at me in the mirror.
“Big day, Ms. Bennett.”
I watched campus banners snap in the spring wind.
“You have no idea.”
What my family didn’t know was that graduation wasn’t even the biggest event of the afternoon.
At exactly 3:40 p.m., Asteron Labs would announce its final private valuation.
Fifteen billion dollars.
And for the first time, my name would be publicly connected to the company I had spent
