I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 449

Valerie stood off to the side, exuding an air of unbearable arrogance.

"Of course. Vice President Winters held the executive briefing yesterday. The date is locked in. Keep your head down and do good work. With me watching your back in this company, you'll go far."

Skeptical and on edge, Wyatt spent the entire day shadowing the Easton engineers. He quickly realized their backend operations and source code were practically copy-pasted from Zoe's Empathy AI Pro.

Anyone looking at the data would assume it was built by the exact same development team.

The only discernible difference was the corporate logo stamped on the bots' chassis.

Wyatt was thoroughly mind-blown.

Waiting for the right moment when no one was looking, he covertly recorded a video of the bots in action.

Instead of heading home after his shift, he sprinted straight to Professor Layne's office.

When Wyatt played the footage for him, the professor was so stunned he couldn't form a sentence.

"Come on. We are going to see Zoe right now."

Professor Layne dragged Wyatt to the Kendall estate just as Zoe was wrapping up her day.

"Zoe, we have a massive emergency. Look at this."

Zoe stared at the glowing phone screen the professor shoved into her hands, freezing in disbelief.

"Where did you get this?"

Wyatt looked at Zoe, his expression twisted with the guilt of a child caught stealing candy.

"Zoe, I mentioned my cousin works at Easton Group as a senior executive assistant. She pulled some strings and got me a job in their tech department today.

I shot this secretly in their engineering lab. The empathy bots they are building are identical to yours. Down to the last detail.

I was in the trenches with their team all day. Their entire modular framework is a flawless one-to-one replica of your source code."

Zoe stood paralyzed.

How was that even possible?

Ever since she launched the Empathy AI Pro initiative, she had personally handled the most critical architectural data.

The tasks assigned to Professor Layne's students and the Apex Tech engineers were heavily compartmentalized.

"Honestly, you've already secured a high-paying job at Easton. You didn't owe me this. If they catch you playing double agent, they'll destroy your career."

Wyatt flared up with righteous indignation.

"There is no universe where Easton's bot was conceptualized by Sienna Winters. We've been in the trenches learning under you this whole time.

That Winters woman's reputation is already garbage on the dark web after she was exposed for impersonating the legendary AI architect, Lily.

I helped build your project. I know for a fact they used some sleazy, underhanded tactic to siphon our data and clone the bot.

I have zero interest in working for a corporation built on plagiarism. That is our intellectual property."

In his heart, Wyatt had pledged his complete loyalty to Zoe.

The Empathy AI Pro represented their collective blood, sweat, and tears.

Seeing Easton flaunt an exact carbon copy infuriated him beyond words.

Zoe was equally baffled. Where had the firewall failed? How was Sienna Winters able to surgically extract and steal her projects time and time again?