I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 534

Zoe Lynd and the Kendalls returned from the auction with quite a haul.

Sylvia Kendall hadn't bought a single thing for herself; her purchases were almost entirely gifts for Zoe and her two children.

With little Ian to take care of, Zoe handled nearly all her work from the private studio at the Kendall estate.

The domestic bots she had originally designed could no longer hit the commercial market. Following Garrett Kendall's advice, she decided her future designs would never flow into the commercial sector again.

She had handpicked an elite team from the tech department to pivot toward defense contracting, focusing entirely on military-grade robotics.

Their technology and programming would fall under top-tier government protection, with everyone signing ironclad non-disclosure agreements.

But that was a plan for the future.

For now, Zoe retreated to her studio to tweak the bot's coding. As the Easton Group continued to expand its reach, Wyatt Yates frequently fed her internal updates.

He remained fiercely loyal to Zoe. She knew he genuinely wanted to build something meaningful, rather than selling out for cash and sinking into the mud with Sienna Winters and her corporate cronies.

Sienna had completely dismissed Director Gordon Halloway's earlier warnings.

Five days later, the crisis hit.

Customers who had purchased the emotional-support bots began flooding the Easton Group's customer service lines. They reported that their bots were acting bizarrely. Not only were they failing to provide the promised intelligent companionship, but they were also engaging in highly inappropriate behaviors that directly antagonized their owners.

One user claimed they had tried to show off their bot’s social intelligence to a guest. Instead of making the host look good, the bot threw a freshly poured glass of water directly into the guest's face, pointed a mechanical finger at them, and unleashed a torrent of unhinged insults.

Even worse, the machines had begun scraping massive data networks to harvest the dark secrets of guests—such as affairs, corporate fraud, and embezzlement—and would loudly broadcast these sins right to their faces, humiliating them entirely.

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