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 horror and went up
face with one hand, staring
was also infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d
ask? Do you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at Tina with
up with her mother’s help. “What? What did I do, Dad?” She stared
to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face was already
her lip, tears streaming down
getting the deal, I thought you slept your way into the company. Turns out
at once, Tina averted her gaze
off quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did you
have been 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
“I-I didn’t know there was a surveillance camera
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
down in
can’t
knows I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through
gonna get dragged into this as well. The next time you go on an outing with
finally made Julia nervous. “T-They won’t,
answer eventually.” Titus
her husband. And seconds later, she
started acting the victim again. “But I did it all for
her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded. “Tina’s out
out this way, because you keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she
dumb girl. That comment fueled the deep, dark hatred within her, and her eyes turned crimson. But she couldn’t let Titus see that,
better of him, Titus felt his migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think
“Your father was just saying that
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