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
with one hand, staring at her furious
infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d you slap your
her, you ask? Do you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at Tina with a
“What? What did I do, Dad?” She stared at her
“Does
does.” Tina bit her
your way into the company. Turns out I got the deal because you switched my proposal
once, Tina averted
shrugged Tina’s actions off quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did
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 got caught
“I-I didn’t know there was a surveillance camera
out 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 my rep?” Titus
stared down in
patted Titus’ back. “It can’t
to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s
“You’re gonna get dragged into this as well. The next time you go on an outing with your
made Julia nervous. “T-They
get your answer eventually.” Titus
believed her husband. And seconds later, she shot
knew Julia was starting to blame her for this disaster as well, so she started acting the victim
blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She
her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one sloppy job she did.
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 over what you
was gone, Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out of anger. Don’t take it
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