Nathan
We approach William next. He and I grew up together. Our fathers were best of friends and we grew up close. He used to take offence that I was closer to Micheal than him. The two of them used to compete for my friendship. 
“Old friend,” I greet with a smile and he looks at me with disgust before continuing talking to the woman next to him. 
“Hi, Sophia,” I greet his fiancee, I also know since I was five. 
Sophia does not even look at me. Funny how she tried throwing herself at me every chance she got. She is the reason I stopped visiting William’s place because she shamelessly flirted with me when he was not looking. 
“William, it’s me, man,” I say with a pleading tone while looking at my former friend. He lets out a sigh and I can hear betrayal coming. 
“Look, Nathan, you don’t belong here anymore. Stop embarrassing yourself and just leave,” he advises before ushering Sophia away. 
It is the same thing with my other acquaintances, former business partners, and associates. 
“How were you friends with these people?” my wife asks with a shaky voice. I squeeze her hand reassuringly. She knows the truth now, but all this still gets to her. 
“I was blind and an idiot,” I respond and she shakes her head in disagreement. She and I don’t agree on this, but that is the only reason I would have lived all my life with these people who regard being poor as an infectious illness. 
Thirty minutes later, I have been insulted and told that I don’t belong here so many times that I am completely shocked when Violet rushes to greet me. She is tall, slim woman in her late twenties and a junior manager in one of my companies. 
“Mr Lord, Sir!” she exclaims, her face lighting up. 
“I am so happy to see you,” she adds and shakes my hand before shaking my wife and Mrs Gail’s hands. 
“Violet. It’s good to see you,” I say, touched. She, like a lot of others who are my managers have no idea that I am still their boss. I hired her against advice from the board because she was straight from university with no experience. Out of all of my managers, she had the least contact with me, yet she is the only one who does not look at me with disgust. 
“Thank you, Sir. I am where I am today because of you. I don’t care what many say, you are and will always be my hero,” she says and proceeds to tell my wife how I was her mother’s employer and how she benefited from Lord scholarship I set up for my domestic staff. She resonates Paul’s words. Maybe I was not so vain, but I could have done so much more with the wealth I had. 
“I don’t have much, but if you ever need anything, I will do my best to help,” she adds and gives Amari her phone number. 
“Thank you. You are a good person,” Amari tells her and Mrs Gail agrees. 
“Yes, my dear. Never change who you are,” Mrs Gail advises and whispers to me when Violet is gone. 
“She definitely deserves a promotion that one.”
We are still talking when James approaches us. 
“Amari,” he greets and looks at me from head to toe with a scowl on his face. 
“Don’t talk to me,” Amari grits her teeth. I hold her hand and caress it. She despises James with passion. 
James looks at her and sneers. 
“I see you are still faithful to a lowlife cripple who can’t do anything for you,” he says and covers his head when Mrs Gail lashes out at him with her walking stick. 
“You, shameless, uncultured criminal! Your parents were saints and you shame them like this? I will teach you a lesson!” Mrs Gail yells and repeatedly hits James. My bestie is so angry, she has completely forgotten about the plan to not attract too much attention. Now everyone is looking at us and the guards have been called to throw us out. 
Thats also when Michael, Ella and her parents show up.
“Great, the peasants are stirring trouble,” Ella sneers. I don’t think I will ever understand how I dated this woman most of my adult life. 
“I don’t get it, Nathan. You don’t belong here, why do you show up to embarrass yourself?” my ex best friend smirks. 
“Not only don’t you belong, you show up like this?” Ella adds with disgust written all over her face. It is hard to believe that she and Amari are cousins. 
“Are you certain that you are related to these people?” Mrs Gail asks Amari, taking the words right out of my head. 
“Unfortunately,” Amari responds. “I am convinced that they are the devil’s offsprings sent to persecute me,” she adds and I concur. 
“What did you call us?” Thomas roars angrily and slaps Amari across the face. 
It is a loud clap! that explodes my rage and I completely lose it. I spring up to my feet throw a flood of punches at him. I follow him to the floor when he falls and repeatedly punch him. 
I continue to punch Thomas, the blood oozing from his nostrils not dissipating my anger. I can take insults and disrespect, but no one touches my wife. My heart is pounding, each punch  landing on him increasing my anger and hatred. This man killed Amari’s father and took everything from her. He could have paid for the operation to save Amari’s mother, but let her die instead. He had no fucken right to land his land on my wife!
Everyone is screaming, calling the guards, but I don’t care. I keep punching him and Mrs Gail has joined and is hitting him with her stick. 
“Nathan! Mrs Gail! Stop!” Amari cries and pulls me off the idiot, who has stopped moving. “You will kill him. He is not worth it,” she says. I take deep breaths to calm myself, but I am still fuming. 
“Daddy!” Ella cries and rushes to her father’s aid. She and her mother help Thomas sit up. The idiot is alive. I should have killed him. 
“Oh my God! You are crazy! You almost killed my dad!” Ella exclaims and the audience nods in agreement. Well, I don’t really care what these treacherous backstabbers think of me. 
“No one touches my wife!” I roar and straighten my shirt. 
“You will pay for this!” Ella’s mother threatens and I laugh and dare her. 
“I would like to see what you can do.”
“Guards! Where the fuck are you?” Micheal yells guards.
“Throw these low lives out of here,” he commands the men who don’t make any attempt to move. 
I can’t help noticing how the coward is keeping his distance from me. He was bold enough to hit me when I was on a wheelchair at the park a while back. Now that I am in a fighting mood, I might as well get a pay back for that.
“Nathan!” Amari cries when I throw a punch at him, sending him flying on the floor. 
“Sorry, Babe. No one touches you,” I explain to my wife and lead her and Mrs Gail out. The guards follow us to the exit. Now it’s time to introduce the world to the UNLFA Co CEO. 
“So much for not attracting attention. You two are just crazy,” Amari complains as the guards usher us to the private suite to change.