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.

 

time to see that. She screamed in horror and went up

face with one hand, staring at her furious

she was also infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d you slap your

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

What did I do, Dad?”

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

her lip, tears

snorted. “When you told me I’m getting the deal, I thought you slept your way into

at once, Tina averted

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

job. Sure, Tom was distracted, but there was a surveillance camera in the

didn’t know there was

I was when Sonia pointed out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more than twenty

down

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

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

at Julia. “You’re gonna get dragged into this as well. The next time you go on

finally made Julia

get your answer eventually.” Titus

later, she shot a complicated look at

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

for Julia stopped blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded.

keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one

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

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 downstairs to get

gone, Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that

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