Marcus Krafth; The Rise to Magnificence

Chapter 005

Ben thought Juliet must have been joking. His face told a lot of stories.

He did not want to believe what he heard. He couldn't. How could a man looking like this be related to the Krafth's.

Ben thought about it again. He realized he had not heard a reply from Juliet.

She just stood in front of the beggar worth her back to him.

Ben waited for her to talk before he pounced on Marcus.

Marcus moved in to hug his sister, after all it had been for, he saw her.

Huncho, seeing this rushed in. His head was pumping with all the anger he could muster at the moment.

How dare this beggar have any thoughts on his young miss, he thought.

He promised himself to teach him a lesson today.

Huncho moved as fast as he could. In fact, he believed he moved faster than he had ever done.

He had to beat up this man that dared touch Miss Juliet. He did not want to listen his job.

Huncho liked the lifestyle that came with being the security man of the Krafth family.

He liked the fact that he lived well, traveled a lot, and got to meet really important people.

He liked his current lifestyle. Huncho could literally afford most basic things people needed but didn't have the capability to get easily.

All these rushed through his mind as he rushed to the side of Marcus.

He decided to push him away first and make sure his young miss was safe.

Huncho's hand was almost touching Marcus when he heard a cold voice.

“Stop! Do you even know what you are doing?” Juliet asked in cold fury.

“This is my brother, your young master. You dare lay hands on him? Do you want to lose your job?”

Even a blind person could tell how angry Juliet was at this moment.

She turned to face her brother once again. She had missed him.

“Brother!” Juliet said.

Ben and Huncho could hear the catch in her throat. Juliet most likely wanted to cry. He was stunned

How could this have happened, he thought.

Huncho, on the other hand, went ahead and paid down on the floor, prostrate.

He knew this matter was his fault.

Right from the beginning, he had left his pager, which should have been on him at all times, elsewhere.

This was a lapse of duty.

He had tried to throw his young master, judging from the tone of the young miss, out of the area.

This on its own was just plain disrespectful.

He knew he might just lose his job. It all depended on what Marcus said.

The only thought he had in his head right now, was to apologize, with all sincerity.

So, the first thing that popped into his head was to lay down in apology.

Juliet on the other hand did not pay attention to any of this. She blatantly ignored both Ben and Huncho.

She pulled her brother's hand and dragged him inside.

Marcus had been in shock through the events that had just happened in a few seconds.

He did not know what to believe. He just allowed his sister to drag him inside the house for now.

When Marcus got inside, he took a minute and a half to digest everything he was seeing around him.

And this was still the entrance. He wondered what his sister was doing here.

She did not only look okay, she looked like she was doing exceptionally well.

Marcus looked at himself, then her. He realized why the people outside had thought he was a beggar once again.

He got confused with each passing second.

“Juliet, what are you doing in this big palace? Am I in a dream or what?” Marcus pinched himself as he asked these questions.

The acute pain he felt after this, made him realize he was in no dream. It was the real world.

Juliet took a second to sigh. She knew all of these would be rather shocking to Marcus.

“Marcus, I know this might be rather unbelievable to you, but give me a second. I'm going to explain as best as I got it,” she said.

They had gotten to a rather large and unbelievably furnished sitting room at this point.

She saw Marcus staring around, looking unsure of his surroundings. “You should sit down for this,” she said.

Marcus sat down. She knew with the look he had on his face that he wanted an explanation. He deserved it, she thought.

“I'm going to tell you what dad told me. I'm pretty sure he did not explain it to me well, but he will, when you meet him soon.”

“You should just listen right now,” she said.

“Dad told me after you left that we were a rich family. I was in shock, considering the way we had been living.”

“Richer than your wildest imaginations, he continued.”

“I did not believe him. I asked how he had kept this from both of us and why he had just revealed that after you left.”

“He gave me an explanation I was forced to accept. Dad told me he had been running the business anytime he went away to his work at the construction company he told us he worked at.”

“I will prove to you how rich we are, he had said. He made a call while leading me outside.”

“I saw the latest Audi C-series everyone had been talking about.”

“We got in and he drove to the biggest hotel in town. The Chandeleers.”

“We entered, with everyone bowing to both of us. A fat man looking like the manager rushed over, with security at his back.”

“I thought we were in trouble. I looked at Dad and I could see him smile at me, telling me not to worry.”

“Mr Krafth, you are here, the manager said while bowing.”

“I had noticed the security men also bowing in tandem with the manager.”

“This is your young miss, dad had said. They all bowed to me. My brain was almost fried at this point. I struggled to take it all in.” Juliet said.

“Dad led me to the penthouse in the hotel. It was on the forty-sixth floor. I just followed behind him.”

“He told me in the elevator that this hotel was just one small place that our family owned.”

“He reminded me at that point, that the Krafth family we had always heard about, was our family.”

“I had at this point been shocked beyond words. Why? I had asked him. Why did you not tell us all these before Marcus left home?”

“Dad told me, he said, it was a tradition in the family for ages.”

“A test laid down by the ancestors of the Krafth family.”

“All heirs in the family had to pass through hard and harsh times, so they could become the successful man they were meant to become.”

“Marcus, you were sent away because of this test.” Juliet said.

Marcus was just dumbfounded. His whole life had been turned upside down into these short moments.

He did not know how to feel. He knew this was the biggest shock he had ever had, and this was considering he had been shocked a lot these past days.