I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 10

If she couldn't find anything about herself, surely his legendary romance with Sienna would be online. That scandal had been massive.

So, she typed in their names, searching for their engagement party.

Hayden and Sienna had officially met each other's families. The engagement party hosted by New York's most powerful family was supposed to have included the entire political and financial elite.

Rumor had it Hayden had chartered a private jet to fly in thousands of imported roses, and Sienna's gown was a custom haute couture masterpiece flown in from Paris, designed exclusively for her by a royal designer.

An event of that magnitude should have dominated the social pages for months.

Yet, the search results showed something entirely different. The headlines read: *Sienna Winters weds Charles Thorne in Lavish New York Ceremony*.

There was zero record of Hayden and Sienna's engagement. It was as if it never existed.

Zoe was completely stunned.

Sienna hadn't married Hayden? She married his younger brother, Charles?

And the entire history of Hayden's relationship with Sienna had been wiped clean from the web.

Regardless, comparing the explosive public hype around Sienna's wedding to her own absolute secrecy, the message was painfully clear.

Hayden's marriage to her was a tightly kept secret.

Which meant Hayden had not married her willingly.

But if he didn't want this, why did he do it?

A loud commotion outside her office snapped her back to reality. Zoe stepped out to see Valerie Yates hauling a cardboard box out of the director's suite, her eyes red and puffy.

As she walked past Zoe, Valerie was trembling with pure hatred.

"Zoe, don't think for a second that just because you schemed to get me fired, nobody sees what you're doing! I'm telling you, there are thousands of women lining up for Mr. Thorne. You can't get rid of all of them!

Moving purely on instinct, Zoe picked up the desk phone. There was a number she knew by heart.

She dialed it without a second thought. When the line connected, a deep, slightly older voice spoke. It sounded more mature than five years ago, but Zoe immediately recognized it as Hunter Keating.

Her eyes instantly filled with tears. She had woken up to a world where everything had changed, and she felt entirely lost.

The only person she could think of was her boyfriend of three years, the man she had been practically ready to marry.

But her new reality hit her like a truck: she was Hayden's wife, and Hunter was Hayden's cousin.

How the hell did she end up married to Hayden?

The line fell silent for a few seconds before the man called out her full name.

"Zoe... is that you?"