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.

 

just in time to see that. She screamed in

one hand, staring at her furious

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

What did I do,

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

bit her lip, tears streaming

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

at once, Tina averted

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

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, Tina.” Titus looked at her

up. “I-I didn’t know there was

for excuses. Do you have any idea how embarrassed I was when Sonia pointed out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more than twenty presidents in the room. Do you know how bad this is going to be for my rep?”

down in

can’t be that

it be? Now everyone knows I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred. The

next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re gonna treat you like

finally made Julia nervous. “T-They won’t,

answer eventually.”

husband. And seconds later, she

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

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

her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she did. At this rate, she’ll drag the whole

that Titus only thought of her as a cruel, dumb girl. That comment fueled the deep, dark hatred within her, and her eyes turned crimson. But she couldn’t let Titus see that,

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

Titus was gone, Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out of anger. Don’t

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