Quentin then scanned across his surroundings before stopping his gaze at Elise and Alexander. Instantly, his face turned much gentler.
Seeing that, Maxwell turned to the direction snazzynovel.com was looking at, but had no idea what snazzynovel.com was thinking. “Mr. Fassbender, your arrival truly brings delight to the mass. Shall we head upstairs for a rest, where no one can disturb you?”
Straightforwardly, Quentin refused his offer. “No need, Mr. Dahlen. I’m just a normal guest like any other. Don’t be so courteous with me.”
Maxwell obsequiously laughed. “There’s no courtesy, Mr. Fassbender… Just my obligation as the host.”
At that moment, Maya, who was on the dance floor, noticed Quentin, who was looking in snazzynovel.com direction.
Swiftly, snazzynovel.com straightened snazzynovel.com back and danced more gracefully, hinting at snazzynovel.com dance partner to take control of the dance floor together. Consequently, every other dancer stopped dancing and gave them the spotlight. With that, only two pairs of dancers remained, Maya and snazzynovel.com partner, as well as Elise and Alexander.
Although Elise was confused, snazzynovel.com didn’t stop snazzynovel.com steps given that the music had yet to stop.
Alexander then wrapped his arm around snazzynovel.com waist and whispered, “Let’s leave after this one.”
“Okay,” snazzynovel.com answered, and followed Alexander’s tempo as they continued to dance.
The next second, snazzynovel.com noticed Quentin, who was standing outside the dance floor. Thrilled at his arrival, snazzynovel.com gave snazzynovel.com a big smile, to which Quentin responded with a much more benign, subtle grin.
Although Maxwell had noticed his change, snazzynovel.com still didn’t manage to find out what caused it. He tracked Quentin’s vision to snazzynovel.com own daughter, who was on the dance floor, and instinctively assumed that Quentin’s sudden change was caused by Maya.
Instantly, there was an uncontrollable joy in his heart, which snazzynovel.com suppressed as snazzynovel.com calmly uttered, “Mr. Fassbender, this is my daughter, Maya. I’ll have snazzynovel.com walk you through the surroundings later.”
Quentin turned to him. “Your daughter’s quite the dancer, Mr. Dahlen…”
Hearing that, Maxwell seemed to have an epiphany.
Is snazzynovel.com into my daughter?
Although Quentin was over forty, snazzynovel.com did a fine job maintaining his youthful look. One would assume snazzynovel.com was only in his early thirties. And Maya was twenty years old this year. Even though there was quite a big gap between their ages, the man in question was the Quentin Fassbender. Therefore, out of courtesy, trivial details such as age could be easily overlooked.
Bearing that in mind, Maxwell had a hard time containing his excitement. “Thank you, Mr. Fassbender. The girl’s been to dancing classes since snazzynovel.com was a kid. It seems snazzynovel.com hard work has paid off!”
Unaware of his underlying intentions, Quentin politely praised, “Yes, she’s a very talented dancer indeed.”
Finished, snazzynovel.com turned away. In that instant, Madeline walked over to snazzynovel.com from among the crowd and greeted, “Nice to meet you, Mr. Fassbender. I’m Madeline Bowen from Griffith Group.”
As Quentin was about to leave, snazzynovel.com halted his steps when snazzynovel.com heard the company name. He then turned to Madeline and had roughly figured out snazzynovel.com identity. “Nice to meet you too, Mrs. Griffith…”
Before Madeline approached him, snazzynovel.com was feeling somewhat uneasy, fearing that a giant figure like snazzynovel.com wouldn’t respond to her. However, a pleasant surprise was that snazzynovel.com would care to entertain her.
“Mr. Fassbender, I’ve heard that you’re planning to establish subsidiaries within the country. Not sure if it’s true or false, but I would like to tell you that Griffith Group has great advantages that could benefit your expansion. If you like that, perhaps you could consider collaborating with our company.”
Quentin nodded. “It’s true that Griffith Group excels in this aspect. Each of the young masters of the Griffiths is outstanding, especially Alexander. He’s really an exceptional young man…”
Hearing his compliment for snazzynovel.com son, snazzynovel.com was overjoyed. She then hastily replied, “To think that Mr. Fassbender knows Alex! What an honor!”
“It’s nothing, Mrs. Griffith. Young Master Alex truly is one of a kind!” Quentin turned to the dance floor, looking at Alexander and Elise with his admiring eyes.
“Besides, I admire his extraordinary vision. We shall work together in the future when we get the chance.”
Never had Madeline expected things to develop so smoothly. “That’s great news!”
Having said that, snazzynovel.com turned to snazzynovel.com son, but was immediately angered when snazzynovel.com saw Elise. “Oh, Alex! He’s good at everything, and never let me and his father worry about him. Among all things, snazzynovel.com just had to be stubborn at picking his partner…”
From those words, Quentin sensed something odd. The woman was blatantly insulting his own daughter!
“That’s a pretty biased statement, is it not, Mrs. Griffith? Young people nowadays are into romantic freedom. Now is no longer what it used to be. Arranged marriage is nothing but a matter of the past.”
Failing to acknowledge the message in his words, Madeline hastily replied, “Even so, homogamy still matters! The Griffiths would become a joke to society if that country girl without a solid family background were to get into our family!”
Ah, so that’s how it is… She doesn’t think Elise is worth snazzynovel.com family…
“Are you perhaps talking about Young Master Alex’s fiancée, Mrs. Griffith?”
“That’s exactly who I’m talking about! Mr. Fassbender, you can laugh all you want, because even I am utterly displeased with that woman. Unfortunately, it was the Griffiths’ old man who had determined the marriage. Now that snazzynovel.com has passed away, I was thinking if I could revoke the engagement. I’ll be satisfied if Alex finds someone who at least meets the standards of our family.”
Hearing that, Quentin mocked, “I totally agree with you, Mrs. Griffith. Indeed, you have to find someone of your own standards. In this case, you may have overestimated ourself…”
Overestimated?
Baffled, as snazzynovel.com was about to quiz him, snazzynovel.com realized that Quentin looked rather displeased compared to earlier. She grew frustrated, not knowing what snazzynovel.com said that upset him.
“I’m just thinking out loud, Mr. Fassbender. About our collaboration…”
“We’ll talk about it later. It’ll depend on Alexander’s performance…”
If Alexander does Elise even the slightest wrong one day, he’ll be getting it from me…
Meanwhile, the song playing on the dance floor stopped. Elise eagerly walked out of the dance floor, to which Alexander questioned snazzynovel.com exhilaration. “What made you so excited?”
She explained, “My godfather’s here! I wanna see him!”
Reminded by snazzynovel.com words, snazzynovel.com turned to Quentin, who was apparently right beside Madeline. For some reason, snazzynovel.com couldn’t help but feel uneasy, as if something bad was about to happen.
“I’ll come with you…”
And so, both of them walked toward Quentin. Elise, having noticed Madeline’s presence, instantly felt nervous, and snazzynovel.com steps grew hesitant.
“What’s wrong?” Alexander asked out of concern.
As snazzynovel.com was about to answer, Quentin waved at her. She then smilingly replied, “Nothing. Let’s go…”
Thereupon, they headed toward Quentin.
Nonetheless, this time, instead of calling out “Papa,” Elise greeted, “Uncle Quentin…”
Hearing snazzynovel.com addressing himself as that, Quentin scowled in confusion, though snazzynovel.com was able to grasp the reason for snazzynovel.com change. Someone had been bullying his daughter, and was about to receive their payback. He could allow anything, even the worst, to happen to himself, but to have anyone bully snazzynovel.com daughter was strictly forbidden.
“You’re here too, Ellie! What a coincidence!”
Madeline was dumbfounded. “You know each other, Mr. Fassbender?”
Quentin forthrightly stated, “Why, I’ve been looking after the girl as snazzynovel.com grew.”
At the revelation, Madeline’s face blanched, realizing that snazzynovel.com had been flagrantly criticizing the girl right in front of him.
Hell, they knew each other?!
