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.

 

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

was holding her face with one hand,

also infuriated. “Are you

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

help. “What? What did I do, Dad?” She stared at

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

bit her lip, tears streaming down her

you slept your way into the company. Turns out I got the deal because you switched my proposal with

once, Tina averted her gaze

Tina’s actions off quickly. “So

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

up. “I-I didn’t know there was a

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

stared down in fearful

can’t be that bad, can it,

to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred. The whole

well. The next time you go on an outing with

Julia nervous.

your answer eventually.” Titus

later,

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.

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

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 this rate,

“Dad?” She couldn’t believe that Titus only thought of her as a cruel, dumb girl. That comment fueled the deep, dark hatred

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

Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was

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