Another opportunity?

"What do you want, Alan?" turning to look at Alan who stepped through the crowd of guests like a madman.

He asked. "Like what do I want? You might be the son of the most important family, but that doesn't make you play with all the girls as you please," as he finished passing between the crowd he declared, being red with rage.

But such a look only made Theos laugh derisively inside, while on the surface his eyes grew colder and colder.

"Are you implying that I am like those noble Playboys or that they go here and there to have fun?", with a frown, he said in a voice so deep and icy that the guests recoiled by mere instinct.

Each of them understood the meaning of this dispute, at stake was Theos' public image for the next few years, as such a bad first impression, his family's reputation, though gigantic and insurmountable, and though he had a great reputation as a hero, something like being a playboy would be a great damage to his reputation.