Chapter 14

Christian made sure to introduce Arthur to all of his business partners. As Arthur will need to know all of them if he's going to run the consortium.

"Nice meeting you, Ms. Winston." Arthur said as he firmly shook an old-aged woman's hand.

"It's my pleasure to meet you, Mr. Stark." Ms. Winston replied, smiling nonchalantly.

Ms. Winston glanced at Dawn briefly as she was standing next to Arthur. "Is this your wife Mr stark? She is gorgeous."

"No, she is not my wife, she is my secretary," Arthur replied nonchalantly.

Why would someone think dawn is his wife? Sure

"Well just look at you, don't you have the best things, Mr. Stark? A beautiful woman like her you make your secretary." Ms. Winston teasingly said, as she looked at Dawn, feeling relieved, now she could ask what she wanted to ask. She shifted her gaze back to Arthur and asked: "By the way, I have a granddaughter, and she'd love to meet you, Mr. Stark." Ms. Winston said with a wide smile.

'Old ladies, is that all they think about? Getting their grandchildren married to rich men?' Arthur thought to himself, as he just nodded at the old lady's suggestion.

"I would love to…." Arthur couldn't finish his sentence, as suddenly someone gripped his arm and spun him around. Arthur looked at the person gripping on his arm, and he was shocked to see who it was.

It was Mavin Cohen, the guy who shamelessly Purdue's Stacey, his wife.

"You piece of shit what do you think you're doing here?" Mavin asked angrily while glaring at Arthur with gritty teeth.

He hated this Arthur guy, first, he stole his high school and college crush, and now what was he doing at this party?

"Get the fuck out of here before I call security on you, people like you shouldn't be allowed here!" Mavin continued in a harsh tone as he violently poked Arthur in the chest, his voice was high this time, getting everyone's attention. What Mavin didn't know was that the man he is insulting is the Master Stark everyone has been waiting for, and everyone knew that except him.

Mavin was happy to see people inside the living room were focusing their attention on him and Arthur, who he was embarrassed about. Mavin continued in a louder voice, "I know you very well trash, you are always coming to parties like these to eat free food and steal from the rich guests."

Knowing Arthur was Christian's grandson, no one believed Mavin, who was a nobody compared to Arthur Stark. People could only shake their heads, knowing Mavin is fucking up big time.

Mavin didn't stop his insults there though, he violently gripped on Arthur's collar and threatened him. "Leave or I'll make you regret it, trash!"

Mavin felt unfortunate at this moment, he has always dreamed of the day when he'll get a chance to beat this punk's ass dude. But this party was not the place to beat someone up.

As Mavin was talking, Arthur stared at him as if he was looking at a fool, clenching and unclenching his fists, getting furious. He would let everyone insult him when he lived with the Roths, but that's not him anymore, that old Arthur is dead.

"You're ruining my tuxedo." Arthur said coldly, his deep voice sending chills down Mavin's spines, Making him immediately let go of Arthur's shirt.

Kevin, who was in shock after seeing his son's actions, came out of his shock and rushed to stop his son.

"Mavin! Mavi,n what the hell do you think you're doing?" Kevin Cohen asked his son in an irritated tone, knowing his son just fucked up. "What do you think you're doing talking to master Stark like that!?" Mavin's dad finished the sentence with a slap to Mavin's cheeks.

The slap was crisp enough, it made Mavin see Stars. "Dad, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Mavin grinding his teeth in anger as if he'll lash at his dad.

Kevin slapped his son again. "Ingrate! Apologize to M.r Stark this instant!" Then Kevin turned to Arthur and kneeled before him, "M.r Stark please forgive my son, he doesn't know what he is doing!"

Seeing his dad kneeling before the useless son-in-law, Mavin was at a loss of words, realizing he might have fucked up big time. 'This idiot is the. Mr. Stark everyone has been talking about?' Mavin thought to himself, sweating profusely.

"...." Mavin was at a loss of words, this was impossible. He doesn't only know Arthur as Stacey's useless husband, he also went to the same college with Arthur, and he knows, everyone knows that Arthur is a poor guy, a nothing.

"You son of a bitch, don't you want to live? Kneel before young master Arthur!" His dad's voice brought Mavin back to his thoughts.

Seeing his dad kneeling before a nobody, Mavin laughed out hard.

"What? Dad, you want me to kneel before a piece of shit? You've gone, crazy dad!" Mavin shook his head, denying that Arthur could ever be a rich person. He couldn't accept the possibility of Arthur being a Stark.

With a sigh, Arthur looked away from Mavin and gestured to security. "Get this idiot and his dad out of my face." Arthur demanded coldly.

Seeing the security guards approaching him, on Arthur's orders, Mavin was regretting what he just did, more than that he was confused.

Meanwhile,e at the Roths' Villa, Caine was getting overly annoyed because Stacey was refusing to come out of her bedroom.

"I don't think she's going to come out anytime soon Caine…maybe you can take someone else from this family as your plus one to the party?" Victoria suggested, trying to take advantage of the situation. Knowing that if Caine allows her to go with him, she can finally set foot on the Stark Villa and that will be something she can brag about to her friends. Very few people have ever been to Stark VillaIn fact you have to be extremely close to the Starks to ever get invited to their functions such as parties.

And the Duhamels didn't even qualify to be invited, but that didn't stop them from lying to the Roths about their relationship with the starks.

"Caine dear, are you listening to me?" Victoria asked.

Feeling very annoyed and pissed, Caine could only flash a smile at his future gold-digging mother inlaw. "Why don't you open her bedroom, using the spare key?"

Hearing that Victoria frowned as she replied, "Yeah we have that." She glared at her husband Lawrence and ordered, "Go get the spare key to Stacey's bedroom."

In no time Lawrence was back with a set of keys, he handed them to Victoria, and she walked up the stairs to open the door.

'Stace,y what the hell am I supposed to do with you? How the hell am I going to make you accept me?' Caine thought, gritting his teeth while clenching his fists. Feeling his heartbreak, because she never showed the slightest interest in him.

At the same time, Victoria came back with a disappointed and worried look on her face.

"Stacey is not in her bedroom! She's nowhere to be seen inside this house!" Victoria uttered, sounding worried.