If the Wind Knew Her Worth

Dr. Evelyn Carter, a young scientist at Eastbridge Biomedical Institute, is the quiet force behind universal synthetic blood, a breakthrough that could change emergency medicine worldwide. On the day her team receives news that the work has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Evelyn refuses a celebration because her family has arranged a first meeting with her fiance, Chase Whitmore, the ambitious CEO of Whitmore Biotech. Her aging car will not start, so Director Jonathan Reed lends her his official state sedan and watches her leave with only a plastic bag of fruit grown by her father. Meanwhile, Chase is desperate to secure access to the synthetic blood project and blindly trusts his arrogant assistant, Vivian Stone. Outside Whitmore Biotech, Vivian cuts into Evelyn's parking space, hits the state sedan with Chase's Porsche, then demands an outrageous payment. When Evelyn refuses and asks Vivian to apologize, Vivian uses the Whitmore name to threaten her in front of bystanders. Chase ignores Evelyn's call, and Vivian escalates the humiliation by grabbing a baseball bat and smashing the car.