Chapter 122

Claire's POV The evidence stared back at me from Theo's phone screen, each email timestamp and contract detail unraveling the narrative I'd constructed in my mind with devastating efficiency. The cold, professional tone of his responses to Daisy's increasingly personal overtures. The careful scheduling that minimized their contact to essential business meetings. The calendar entries showing dozens of attempted calls to my number interspersed between every corporate obligation. I had been so wrong. So completely, catastrophically wrong. The business partnership that had looked like romantic intimacy from across the street was revealed for what it truly was—a strategic alliance that Theo had endured rather than enjoyed, navigated with the same calculated precision he brought to every corporate negotiation. The smile I'd witnessed, the one that had shattered my heart so completely, wasn't the expression of a man falling in love but of someone maintaining professional courtesy while his th