I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 619

Ethan Montgomery returned to the venue, only to find it had descended into absolute chaos.

Hayden Thorne stood on the stage, personally confessing his marriage to Zoe Lynd.

He was the first to feel completely disoriented. No wonder Sienna Winters had left so decisively just moments ago, even shouting Hayden's full name.

This—

He was astounded.

Had Sienna and Hayden completely fallen out?

While those two argued, had Hayden and Zoe reconciled? Had everyone else benefited while his eight billion dollars simply vaporized?

Fuck!

Valerie Yates grew frantic. "Impossible. How could Zoe possibly be your wife? Mr. Thorne, are you intimidated by the Kendall family, so—"

Hayden shot Valerie a chilling glance. "Use your brain and think about how likely that is. Why do you think Ms. Lynd refused a salary at the company? What's mine is hers. Understood?"

Valerie was horrified, but Zoe remained entirely unmoved.

Garrett Kendall actually felt a surge of indignation.

For Hayden to finally see clearly and publicly acknowledge his relationship with Zoe at this juncture was surprisingly rare.

But he didn't know where Zoe stood on the matter.

"Let him talk. The Military Personnel Command has already recognized our divorce, so nothing he says matters anymore."

Garrett felt an inexplicable wave of relief.

He was terrified that Zoe would end up hurt if she went back to him.

Zoe was too kind-hearted and too easily bullied.

He always felt she was just a little girl who desperately needed protection.

"But, but Ms. Winters, she—" Garrett couldn't listen to this anymore.

He simply followed them onto the stage. Valerie stared at him, unable to comprehend why he was getting involved.

The reality was that even Hayden had stepped up to defend Zoe, outright admitting that Zoe was the true Mrs. Thorne. Valerie couldn't help but scan the audience, desperately hoping to spot Sienna.

Sienna was the only one who had the authority to speak up right now.

As long as she came forward to clarify things, relying on her status as a top global businesswoman, people would undoubtedly believe her words.

Panic seized Valerie as she scoured the crowd for Sienna.

Yet, no matter how hard she searched every visible corner of the room, Sienna was nowhere to be found.

Garrett had no intention of letting Valerie off the hook.

"You can stop looking. Your precious chairwoman wouldn't dare show her face right now. Furthermore, Easton Group is drowning in debt. The emotional AI robot you just launched is a direct rip-off of Sterling Group's work. The original robotic concept we proposed was stolen by Easton's corporate spies and repurposed into your so-called intelligent companionship robot."

"You used foreign espionage chips to directly steal our emotional robot's sensory data for mass production. Unfortunately for you, once Ms. Lynd discovered this, we modified our robot's core programming to protect our patents."

"Right now, Sienna is facing massive consumer liability lawsuits. Don't tell me you are completely oblivious to all this. Also, while Sienna and your Mr. Thorne did have a history, that was a very long time ago."

"After he got married, Sienna shamelessly approached Mr. Thorne, accompanying him everywhere to generate media buzz and make people think there was something going on between them. She stole the robotic programming developed by Sterling Group just to hype up her own profile and gain attention."