Titus didn’t answer that. Instead, he asked darkly, “Where’s Tina?”

“She’s in her room,” Julia answered.

 

Titus squinted for a moment, then he went upstairs.

His inexplicable anger was making Julia’s heart pound with fear. Did Tina do something to get on his nerves? Worried about her daughter, Julia quickly followed him upstairs.

Titus started banging on the door once he was outside Tina’s room.

The door was opened a moment later, revealing Tina behind it. She was in her pajamas, looking sleepy. “What is it, Dad?”

 

The fact that she was looking sleepy only served to fuel his anger. I was humiliated at an important meeting, while you’re just sleeping? The more he thought about it, the angrier he was. In the end, he couldn’t hold it back anymore, and he slapped Tina as hard as he could.

Slap! Tina fell to the ground from the impact of the slap, entirely dumbstruck. But more importantly, she didn’t know why her father was slapping her.

 

She screamed in horror and

one hand, staring at her furious father in

also infuriated. “Are

slap her, you ask? Do you have any idea what this girl

got up with her mother’s help. “What? What did I

she started to cry. “Does

bit her

way

at once, Tina

but she shrugged Tina’s actions off quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did you have

wouldn’t have been a big deal, except she didn’t do a clean job. Sure, Tom was distracted, but there was a surveillance camera in the room. You got caught red handed,

didn’t know there was

was when Sonia pointed out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more than twenty presidents in the room. Do you know

down in

“It can’t be that

daughter who tried to cheat her way

as well. The next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re gonna treat you

made Julia

get your answer eventually.”

And seconds later, she shot a

acting the victim again. “But I did it all for you, Dad. I wanted you to get

her. “Yeah,

keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she did.

fueled the deep, dark hatred within her, and her

his anger was getting the better of him, Titus felt his migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think over what you

down. “Your father was

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