Faux Vows, True Desires

Even though Madeleine didn't know Luna well, she couldn't entrust everything to her, even if Mr. Porter vouched for her. She needed to handle things herself to make it clear to Ruby that it was Madeleine, not

Luna, who was truly helping her.

"Madeleine, are we going in now?" Luna asked Madeleine.

Madeleine hid her real surname and called herself Madeleine West, even changing her place of birth.

All Luna knew was that she came from Kalimdor, nothing more.

"No, we're just here to check out the place today. It's got a pretty decent exterior."

Ruby had ambition and was willing to invest. Even for a newly established company, the environment was pretty good.

There was a small garden at the entrance of the company, filled with various flowers and trees. The path was paved with small pebbles, and right in the center of the garden stood a round music fountain. The pool was home to both fish and rocks.

Past the garden was the office building, which was not tall, only five stories. If they exited the office building and turned left, they would find the production workshop and warehouses. Between the production workshop and the office building was a security booth, with the employee dormitory and canteen on its right. Inside the canteen was an employee library for leisurely reading.

To the far right of the two dormitory buildings was a large basketball court, where they could play and enrich their life in spare time.

Ruby had really invested a lot to create her business blueprint.

No wonder Ruby couldn't hold up after being suppressed by Stefan. Even though she knew Stefan despised her and didn't want to see her, she still went to him to plead for mercy. However, Ruby ran into Lucinda at Ascend Global and came back down and out.

"Aren't we going in?"

"No rush."

Ruby hadn't taken the initiative to find Owen yet.

Wait until Ruby hit a wall at the Ikella group and found herself at a dead end, then Madeleine would show up. That way, Ruby's gratitude towards her would be even stronger. Madeleine was in a hurry when she came and left; Ruby didn't even know she had been there.

her CEO's office, lambasting her senior managers for their incompetence. They had failed to

company will go bankrupt before

desk. Her face

Dewey and was left with a black eye. Even though she had applied ice for a long time, the injury would still be noticeable without

with Mr. Martinez; why not reach out to him? At this point, Mr. Martinez is the only one

apart from the Ikella group, all

this, Ruby was at a

Owen to reach out

know about her business troubles. Why hadn't he called her or offered to

be, as her mother Megan said, that Ruby had been using

No, that's impossible!

been infatuated with Ruby for over a decade; how could he

must be

past, whenever Ruby had a problem, no matter how busy Owen was, he would drop everything to rush to her side, help her resolve issues, smooth things over, and fight for justice. This time, Owen hadn't

a bit anxious and also blamed Owen's father, Shane. If it weren't for his intervention forcing Owen to marry Cecilia, Owen wouldn't have been absent for two days

right, all of

hand in annoyance, dismissing the

up her car keys, grabbed her bag, and decided

because of Lucinda's sharp

two of them alone, she might lose

thought, Ruby still decided to go

Owen once she showed up. Owen, knowing she was at Serendipity Cafe, would rush over to protect her, and she could tag along with Owen, pour out her grievances to him, and once Owen sympathized with her, he would help resolve her

was bustling in the afternoon, with no

family's bodyguards had all voluntarily become free

payments at the cash register,

she saw this bustling scene

by Stefan to the