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.
in time to see that. She screamed in
one hand,
was also infuriated. “Are you mad,
you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at Tina
“What? What did I do, Dad?”
she started to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face was already red, obviously because Titus
bit her lip, tears streaming down her
the deal, I thought you slept your way into the
Tina
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 room. You got caught red handed,
up. “I-I didn’t know there
out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more than twenty presidents in the room. Do you
down in
back. “It can’t be
who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred. The whole
he pointed at Julia. “You’re gonna get dragged into this as well. The next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re gonna
made Julia
answer eventually.” Titus
her husband. And seconds 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
blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded. “Tina’s out of line, but
you keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she did. At this rate, she’ll drag the whole family down
deep, dark
the better of him, Titus felt his migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think
was gone, Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out of anger. Don’t
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