Faux Vows, True Desires
Chapter 322

"Cecilia, Cecilia."

Lucinda suddenly called out in a panic.

Cecilia, who was busy counting seven checks, asked her, "What's up? Why the jitters?"

"He's here, he's here."

Lucinda was genuinely anxious, "Mr. Malicious is here, you gotta hide."

Cecilia was momentarily startled, but quickly gathered up the seven checks. This was her money from selling her husband.

"Is he really here?"

"Take a look outside. What a coincidence, Ruby just left and before she even got in the car, she saw Owen's entourage coming. Oh right, didn't Owen leave two bodyguards to protect you at the door? It must be them who notified him."

Stefan also arranged bodyguards to protect Lucinda, but they were hidden. Even if Lucinda knew, Zoey and Zack were still protecting her from the shadows.

They didn't want Lucinda to feel like she was constantly being watched.

Owen was more straightforward, his two bodyguards had been squatting around Serendipity Cafe all day.

Cecilia couldn't ignore them even if she wanted to.

Ruby came in following a delivery guy, the Martinez family's bodyguards thought she was here to see Lucinda, so they didn't react.

But when they saw Ruby was talking to Cecilia alone, they realized something was off and quickly notified Owen to come. They were watching from outside, but didn't see a catfight between the two women. However, they saw Owen seemed to have received something from Ms. Scott and gave Ms. Scott a piece of paper, then Ms. Scott came out all joyful.

Upon receiving the bodyguard's notification, Owen was also worried about a catfight between Cecilia and Ruby. He wasn't worried that Cecilia would be at a disadvantage, he was worried that Cecilia would hurt her hand from hitting someone, so he rushed over to see if he could be of any help.

However, just as he arrived at the entrance of Serendipity Cafe, he saw Ruby walking out in high spirits.

It seemed like they didn't have a fight.

Owen suddenly wanted to hide, not wanting to confront Ruby face to face.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the ability to become invisible.

Ruby recognized his convoy and saw him coming. She quickly walked over with a sweet smile on her heavily made-up face.

In the past, whenever he saw her smile like this, Owen would feel flattered. But now, he always felt that when Ruby smiled, her mouth was stretched too wide, it wasn't pretty. Cecilia's smile was much brighter. "Sure enough, he's here. These two really have a knack for running into each other." Cecilia sighed.

Lucinda urged her, "What are you still doing here? Take advantage of Mr. Malicious being held up by Ruby, and the Martinez family's bodyguards have also gone over, you'd better run." "Why should I run?"

Cecilia was still clueless, "I've never been afraid of Mr. Malicious."

Lucinda chided her, "You just took fifty thousand from Ruby and sold Mr. Malicious. Any man would be furious if he knew his wife sold him. Who knows what he might do in his anger." Cecilia said, "You're right, I better run away now. Lucy, I'll hide at your place."

"My rented place has a very flimsy door which can easily be broken down, so you'd better go home as soon as possible. There are people at your place, and your elders. Even with all the courage in the world, Owen wouldn't dare to do anything to you at your home."

"Okay, I'll go home right away, I'll leave immediately. I'm going to turn off my phone. Lucy, can you help me replace someone to cash these checks at my place? I need to cash these checks as soon as possible, otherwise Mr. Malicious might snatch them away."

Lucinda chuckled, "This is a large sum of money and very unsafe to cash it like this. Besides, most people can't come up with that much cash at once, you'll need to make an appointment at least." Cecilia had already opened the door of the store, taking advantage of Owen being held up by Ruby and the bodyguards' attention being on them, she quickly left.

Only when she had run a good distance did she flag down a bus on the street, got on the bus, and felt much safer.

Not long after Cecilia got on the bus, Owen finally got rid of Ruby. He walked into Serendipity Cafe with a gloomy face, clutching the divorce agreement that Ruby had shown him. Lucinda was working inside the cashier's counter.

Seeing him come in, she pretended to just notice him.

"Mr. Malicious, how come you have time to drop by? Don't you have social obligations to attend to?"

Owen threw the divorce agreement on the cashier's counter, his face becoming even gloomier, "Lucinda, Cecilia can call me Mr. Malicious, but you can't call me Mr. Malicious!"

Lucinda was not scared by his anger, she nodded, "True, Mr. Malicious is Cecilia's nickname for you. Mr. Martinez, what's the meaning of this? If you damage my cashier's counter, I don't care who you are, I'll make you pay for it."

"Why do you and Cecilia only care about money, always talking about money, talking about compensation."

"I'm talking about principle."

Owen was left speechless.

"Where's Cecilia?"

Owen looked around, there were no customers in the store now. Basil was in the pastry room, the staff was wiping tables with a cloth.

But Cecilia was nowhere to be seen.

Lucinda casually replied, "I'm not in the store during the day, I only come over in the evening to take over, so Cecilia can rest at night. As for where she goes, I have no idea. I'm just her friend, not her psychic." Owen gave her a cold stare.

Lucinda picked up her phone from next to the computer, turned on the camera function, and started recording Owen.

"Lucinda, what are you doing?"

Owen reached out to grab her phone, but she leaned back, creating some distance. Owen didn't get the phone.

Lucinda sent a short video she had taken to her boyfriend, along with a voice message. Owen only heard her saying, "Honey, your arch-nemesis is glaring at me. I'm so scared."

Owen shouted, "Lucinda!"

This woman actually snitched!

So evil!

Hasn't he suffered enough from Stefan?

"What can you do other than snitching to Stefan? If you're gutsy, confront me directly."

"Stefan, don't listen to your wife's nonsense. I'm just pissed off by Cecilia, I'm not glaring at your wife, I'm glaring at... Anyway, even if you gave me all the courage in the world, I wouldn't dare to mess with your wife, because behind your wife is the Blue family, and I'm scared."

Owen felt that ever since he met Lucinda and Cecilia, he could never hold his head high in front of Stefan.

Lucinda didn't actually send the message to Stefan, she sent it to Cecilia.

But Cecilia's phone was off, so she couldn't see the message Lucinda sent yet.

Lucinda successfully made Owen panic, then she put down her phone, looked at her unfinished manuscript, and said to Owen, "Stop glaring at me, I'm just telling the truth. If you don't believe me, go replace out yourself, don't disturb my work."

Owen was left speechless.

He had already had someone monitoring Cecilia, who was in the shop.

Even though Lucinda didn't want him to replace Cecilia, he had to replace out this heartless Cecilia!