I Forgot I Ever Loved You (Zoe and Hayden) novel Chapter 304

Zoe burst into laughter. Garrett allowed himself a fleeting gaze of affection before firmly burying his unspoken feelings deep in his heart.

The Kendall family went all out for the adoption ceremony.

Every prominent figure in the city's high society received an exclusive invitation.

Naturally, the Thorne family was no exception.

However, Sienna ensured Beatrice Thorne never saw her invitation. When the Kendall courier arrived, she deliberately intercepted it.

An invitation like this had to be kept hidden until the perfect moment.

If the old matriarch found out now, it would only fan the flames of Zoe's arrogance.

Still, seeing the gold-embossed card made Sienna furious.

The old Kendall patriarch must have lost his mind. At the restaurant, Sienna assumed they were just doing Zoe a temporary favor. She never dreamed they would make it official.

The Kendalls were political royalty, operating in spheres even the wealthiest corporate titans couldn't penetrate. What right did Zoe have to join them?

Sienna casually brought the invitation to Hayden, asking if he knew about it.

His reaction was utterly indifferent.

"Do you think the Kendalls are doing this on purpose?" Sienna mused. "You know, since the elder Kendall had history with your grandmother when they were young..."

She let the sentence trail off, deliberately seeding a misunderstanding in his mind.

She wanted him to believe the Kendalls weren't taking Zoe in because Garrett was in love with her.

After all, while the public didn't know Zoe's sordid history, the Kendalls certainly did.

With Zoe's desperate obsession with flaunting her status as Mrs. Thorne, there was no way she hadn't bragged about it to Garrett.

She had probably spun a massive sob story about how the Thorne family mistreated her, too.

Painting herself as the ultimate victim.

According to Sienna's twisted logic, Arthur Sr. was just using Zoe as a pawn to humiliate Beatrice Thorne for rejecting him decades ago.

"Whatever she does is none of my business,"

Hayden replied, his tone dropping a few degrees colder.

They arrived right alongside Hayden.

They weren't there for the spectacle. They tagged along as damage control, just in case Hayden lost his temper.

"Zoe really went nuclear this time,"

Ian murmured, shaking his head as he spotted her.

Garrett was literally holding her kid, yet Hayden didn't even seem to be looking at her.

Dragging Garrett in as collateral damage wasn't going to change anything. It was a pointless stunt.

Ethan scoffed. His sympathy for Zoe had soured into blatant irritation.

He had tried to give her sound advice, and she had responded by weaponizing Sterling Group to screw him over. He was done with her.

Was Sienna right all along? Was Zoe's blunt honesty just a facade, hiding a deeply manipulative agenda beneath that stunning face?

"All this effort for nothing. Look at Hayden. He's completely focused on Sienna. It's pathetic, honestly."