I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 536

On the other end of the line, Justice wrinkled his nose in distaste.

"Ms. Winters, you know my standing with Mr. Thorne isn't quite as high as Mr. Zachs'. Why don't you try reaching out to him again and see if he can get Mr. Thorne on the line for you?"

Justice's words felt like a knife twisting in her gut.

The buck had been passed right back to Colin, and Sienna was seething.

Hayden's two right-hand men were playing games with her, clearly treating her as if she were completely beneath their notice.

With Hayden MIA, Easton technically had its own legal department, but Sienna didn't trust a single attorney on her payroll.

Easton had been booming so aggressively lately that she never imagined she'd need the legal team to handle customer service liabilities.

Aside from Justice, she couldn't find anyone capable of bailing her out on such short notice.

She was forced to swallow her pride.

"Fine. Get down to The Consumer Protection Bureau right now. My department director and I are waiting outside."

Director Halloway had been inside for almost an hour, and he still hadn't re-emerged. Sienna's anxiety was beginning to spike.

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Across town, Zoe received a text from Wyatt Yates.

He was keeping her updated on Easton's every panicked move in real-time.

Sienna had been summoned by The Consumer Protection Bureau, yet the media hadn't leaked a single word about the robotic malfunctions.

Clearly, Hayden's aggressive media suppression tactics were still holding strong.

Those five stolen years were the prime of Zoe's life. Deep down, she suspected her downfall was directly tied to Sienna's manipulations.

Even though Sienna had played the innocent victim flawlessly—the tragic woman whose fiancé was stolen, stripped of the prestigious title of Mrs. Thorne, and forced to marry a man she despised.

The truth was, after being branded the villain, Zoe had spent five years trapped in a suffocating hellscape. Did anyone realize that she was the actual victim in this twisted game?

She had never even experienced a normal romance before she was shackled in marriage to a cold, ruthless man who didn't just ignore her—he actively despised her.

In Zoe's book, Sienna was the architect of her misery, and she deserved to burn for it.

Staring at her monitor, Zoe hammered in a new string of code without a shred of hesitation, unleashing a wave of even more chaotic commands.

Originally, she had considered programming the bots to literally march in the streets, protesting and exposing their owners' darkest secrets to the public, but that would cross dangerous legal lines.

Even though Zenith hadn't manufactured or shipped the machines, Zoe was still the mastermind behind the hack. As a VP at Zenith, leaving a digital trail could ultimately drag the entire corporation down with her.