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

with one hand,

she was also infuriated.

her, you ask? Do you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at

What did I do, Dad?”

she do?” Julia touched Tina’s face, and she started to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face was

it does.” Tina bit her lip, tears streaming down

Titus snorted. “When you told me I’m getting the deal, I thought you slept your way into the company. Turns out I got the deal because you switched

at once, Tina

but she shrugged Tina’s actions off quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did you

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 red handed, Tina.” Titus looked

there

for excuses. Do you have any idea how embarrassed I was when Sonia pointed out that the proposal isn’t mine? There were more than twenty presidents in the room.

stared down

“It can’t be

tried to cheat

next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re

Julia nervous. “T-They won’t,

get your answer eventually.”

husband. And seconds later,

was starting to blame her for this disaster as well, so she started acting the victim again. “But I did it all for

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

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,

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

migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think over what you did during this period

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

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