Faux Vows, True Desires

While Megan was on the phone with Olina, Trenton also received two sets of documents. It was about Cecilia and Lucinda, whom Trenton had asked someone to investigate.

Even though Owen was the primary figure behind the Ikella Group, and Trenton had a great deal of trust in and reliance on him, he felt deeply unhappy about Owen's infatuation with Ruby.

This time, because of Ruby's drama, both Owen and the Ikella group took a hit. This ticked Trenton off big time, so he decided to personally sort out Owen's marriage shenanigan. However, for all these years, the only woman Owen had contact with, apart from his family, was Ruby.

This gave Trenton a massive headache. Even though he could consider a political alliance, Trenton was well aware of his grandson's personality. He could force Owen to tie the knot, and Owen would probably go along. But if the wife he brought home ended up living alone, that'd piss off her family, and the two families' relationship could go south. That was not the outcome Trenton wanted.

Luckily, when he was looking into the incident of Lucinda's store getting vandalized, he found some clues. His grandson seemed to have a peculiar interest in Cecilia, another owner of the Serendipity Cafe. Trenton immediately had someone investigate and found out that his grandson had spent a lot of money to have Cecilia pretend to be his girlfriend to provoke Ruby.

Ruby went bananas, vandalized the store, and injured Cecilia. His grandson also apologized to the Yates family today. Although it ended on a sour note, Trenton still saw a glimmer of hope. So he had someone investigate Cecilia.

Looking at the photo of Cecilia in the document, Trenton muttered to himself, "She's quite a looker and she seems like a good match for Owen."

Cecilia's family background was also quite simple, and most importantly, it was clean.

Although their family wasn't exactly a match for the Martinez family, such a family would be easier to control. Even if Cecilia married into the family and had to live alone, the Yates family wouldn't be able to push Owen around, let alone pose a threat to them or affect their business.

Owen's relationship with Cecilia wasn't exactly a bed of roses, but sometimes, sparks can fly in the midst of arguments.

Trenton thought his grandson needed more exposure to women. Only then would he realize that there are other good women out there. Well, Ruby was definitely not a good woman.

If Owen really fell for Cecilia, that wouldn't be a problem. With the Martinez family's power and Owen's capabilities, even if his wife couldn't help him in his career, he could still comfortably sit at the helm of the Ikella group. The only person who could kick Owen off the CEO seat was himself.

He wouldn't harm Owen. Even if others had some capabilities, they couldn't compete with Owen. Owen was groomed by him and was his source of pride.

Besides, when it came to marriage, it was always better to marry a kind and capable woman. If Cecilia was such a woman, she'd bring good luck, enabling Owen to work hard outside with peace of mind and make the Ikella group even more successful.

Trenton, who was scrutinizing Cecilia's document, was considering concealing his identity to test Cecilia's real character. If she passed the test, he would personally visit the Yates family to meet Cecilia's parents.

If Owen married Cecilia, that would also cut off Ruby's escape route. Moreover, she wouldn't even get a chance to get close to him. Stefan never had romantic feelings for her. She'd been clinging onto him like a leech and even after he went abroad, she didn't let go. Now, she even relocated her business here, intending to continue pestering Stefan. Her return surely spelt trouble.

She couldn't win Stefan's heart but caused his grandson to make mistakes often.

After looking through Cecilia's document, Trenton started to check out Lucinda's document. When he saw Lucinda's photo, he paused and murmured, "Why does this girl look so familiar?"

He felt like he had seen her somewhere before. But he was sure he had never met Lucinda. Since he had never met Lucinda, then he must have seen someone who looked like her. But according to the information, he didn't know her family, and Lucinda didn't resemble her parents or her older brother.

It was only at the end that he found out Lucinda wasn't actually the Moore family's biological daughter. The Moore family's biological daughter had died of illness when she was six months old. The Moores adopted Lucinda by coincidence to replace their deceased daughter. As such, not many people knew that Lucinda was adopted by the Moore family, for they didn't go through any adoption procedures and used their biological daughter's name for Lucinda.

If it weren't for their extensive information network, they probably wouldn't have discovered this.

"Come here." Trenton called over the person who had just handed him the information.

The taciturn man in black walked over and stood in front of Trenton, waiting for the old man's commands.

"Dig deeper into Lucinda's information. I find her familiar. She's not the Moore family's biological daughter, and she must have real family out there. Look up if there's anyone who looks like her, and see if there were any families in high society in major cities who lost a child about twenty-three or four years ago."

Trenton wanted to narrow down the search to the high society of major cities, because he thought Lucinda was familiar, and he only met with someone from the wealthy or noble circles. This way, it'd be easier to find Lucinda's real kin.

Even though Savannah also felt like she knew Lucinda, she didn't ponder over it as much as Trenton did, nor did she dig deeper into Lucinda's background. She felt the duty belonged to her grandson. Stefan asked Edgar to find Lucinda's family, but his grandma didn't tell him that she found Lucinda to be quite familiar, so he had a wide range to search through.

Taking Trenton's order, the man in black unusually piped up, "Trenton, she's the Anderson family's granddaughter-in-law, what's the point in digging up her information?" Trenton just chuckled, "Useful or not, we need to know her past. If her real family turns out to be big shots, wouldn't Stefan gain more power by marrying her?" "Even though we may not be able to mess with Stefan's marriage, at least we need to know our enemy, can't let them catch us off guard." The man in black nodded convincingly.

"Go on then, be careful, don't let the Andersons catch wind of us snooping around Lucinda, wouldn't want others to know the truth." "Understood." The man in black obeyed and left.

After the old man had a look at Lucinda's document, he destroyed it. Only Cecilia's file was left.

After watching for a moment, Trenton called his butler over. He requested the butler to accompany him to approach Cecilia with a false identity. Once he was certain of Cecilia's character, he could then visit Cecilia's parents at the Yates family.

Devon liked to play chess. Trenton, having too much time on his hands in his later years, also often played chess with the butler and others. So, he decided to get close to Devon in this way to get a read on Cecilia's true nature.

The butler, taken aback by Trenton's instructions, didn't dare to ask why and just obediently went off to arrange it.

"Tell him I won't be home for a while, and he will be in charge of this family. Don't always bother Owen. Even though Owen is the head of the household, he's mainly in charge of the company. Don't trouble him with the household affairs."