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.

 

see that. She screamed

hand, staring at her furious father

infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d you slap

Do you have any idea what this girl did?”

“What? What did I do, Dad?”

Tina’s face, and she started to cry. “Does it hurt,

Tina bit her lip,

deal, I thought you slept your way into the company.

Tina

was surprised too, but she shrugged Tina’s actions off quickly. “So what?

she didn’t do a clean job. Sure, Tom was distracted, but there was a surveillance camera in the

froze up. “I-I didn’t know there was a

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

stared down in fearful

back. “It can’t be that bad,

knows I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My

as well. The next time you go on an outing with your

made Julia

get your answer eventually.”

husband. And seconds later, she

so she started acting the victim again.

for Julia stopped blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded. “Tina’s out of

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

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, so she quickly stared down, pretending to be

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

father was

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