Faux Vows, True Desires novel 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 find 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.