Chapter 329 Crawling Back

Claire sat at her desk, eyes glued to the screen, fingers tapping away on the keyboard. The press release from two days ago had done its job—companies were buzzing to get a piece of Metacortex now. Claire's inbox was flooded with emails from companies she never thought would even give her a second glance. As she scrolled through another email offering a lucrative partnership, she raised an eyebrow in surprise. The offer was too good to be real. “Huh, well, didn’t see that one coming,” she muttered to herself, scanning the details again to make sure she wasn’t imagining it. She was about to hit reply when a soft knock on her door interrupted her. “Come in,” she called out, still focused on the email. The door creaked open, and she finally glanced up, expecting to see Matthew or Sandra. But instead, her eyes met someone else—someone she hadn’t expected to see standing in her office again. Mr. Rodriguez, an old client of hers, the very one who had jumped ship to Venus AMD. Claire’s eye