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.

 

to see that. She screamed in horror and went up

her face with one hand, staring at her furious father in

well, but she was also infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d

did I slap her, you ask? Do you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at

What did

she started to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face was already red,

bit her lip, tears streaming down

slept your way into the company. Turns out I got the

at once, Tina averted her

“So what? That’s no big deal. Did you have

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

froze up. “I-I didn’t know there

excuses. Do you have any idea how embarrassed I was when Sonia pointed out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more

down in

patted Titus’ back. “It can’t be that bad, can

I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred.

time you go on an outing

made Julia nervous.

get your answer eventually.” Titus

And seconds later, she shot a

knew Julia was starting to blame her for this disaster as well, so she started acting the victim again. “But I did it all for you, Dad. I wanted you to

victim act worked again, for Julia stopped blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded. “Tina’s out of line, but

Titus mocked, “And that’s why she turned out this way, because you keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she did. At

believe that Titus only thought of her as a cruel, dumb girl. That comment fueled the deep, dark hatred within

getting the better of him, Titus felt his migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think over what you did during this period of time.” He massaged his temples and went

went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out of anger. Don’t take

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