Faux Vows, True Desires

"If Stefan and his wife hadn't divorced because of her drama, she would never stop meddling. You're still so in love with her, just waiting to be used over and over again. You're like a pawn in her game; useful

when she needs you to take the fall, and dumped when she can't handle her own mess."

"Would you bet? If I stripped you of your CEO title, publicly cut ties with you, and didn't give you a dime of the Martinez family fortune, Ruby would drop you like a hot potato."

Owen shouted, "Grandpa!"

"Do you want to test her true colors? I'd be more than happy to help."

"I trust Ruby, I don't need to test her. It would only hurt her."

Owen declared firmly.

Deep down, he knew his grandpa was telling the truth.

Ruby had been using him all along...

His heart ached so bad!

Trenton chuckled sarcastically.

"Owen, do you still want to be the head of the Ikella Group? Do you still acknowledge me as your grandpa?"

Trenton's tone suddenly hardened.

Owen quickly replied, "Grandpa, what are you talking about? You are my grandpa, how could I deny that? You raised me, you're more important to me than my parents."

His utmost respect was for his grandpa, not only because he was the chairman of the Ikella Group and could strip him of his position, but also because he grew up under his care.

In their youth, his grandpa and Patrick were fierce rivals. When they both became grandpas, they seemed to have an unspoken agreement to personally raise their grandsons, hoping they would take over the family business and continue the competition.

As they wished, Owen and Stefan grew up to be enemies.

"If you don't want to be dethroned and still acknowledge me as your grandpa, then you have to follow my instructions. Go cut some roses and head to our family hotel alone. Wait in the coffee shop on the ground floor. I'll send the girl over to meet you."

photo as proof that you

Owen was speechless.

But now, perhaps because Stefan was married and Owen nearly jeopardized the Ikella Group due to Ruby, his grandpa started arranging dates for

could ignore anyone else's words, but not

Is she stunningly beautiful

believed she must be

her. Anyway, she's definitely better than Ruby.

hung up without giving Owen a

ended, his face growing darker, but he had no one

meet her, then so be

made his grandpa insist on him going on

An hour later.

dark sunglasses, with a cigarette in his

family hotel, and he found his

a secluded

from the garden. It had

come alone, without bodyguards, to

He agreed with this.

a blind date, he didn't want to draw too much attention either, hoping to keep

to prevent attracting media attention and getting reported. If Ruby saw it, she would

People would glance at him and then lose interest immediately. When the woman he was

date failed, it wouldn't

for over ten minutes without seeing the woman arrive, Owen called Trenton. When Trenton answered, he asked, "Grandpa, when is the girl you set me up

for waiting for anyone

dared to keep him

past, when he had business meetings, the other

need to do their makeup and change clothes before they go out, it takes

his grandpa, touched his nose, and

the video so I

with a rose. I don't have time for a video