Chapter 12

I stared at her, feeling smaller than I had ever felt in my entire life.
“You ruined me,” I whispered, tears finally escaping and running down my cheeks.
“You ruined yourself, Daniel,” Claire replied, standing up from the desk and buttoning her coat.
“You had a wife who loved you, who protected your dream, and who gave you everything.”
“You traded twelve years of quiet loyalty for eighteen months of flattery from an ambitious consultant.”
She picked up her purse, stepping around the massive desk toward the office door.
“Tessa is downstairs, by the way,” Claire added casually, stopping near the threshold.
“She brought a proposal to pitch her agency’s services for the new Holland Global transition.”
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“She offered to share your private communication logs to prove you misused company funds during your affair.”
“She threw you under the bus before the champagne you bought her even went flat.”