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.

Julia came over just in time to see that. She screamed in horror and went up to hold Tina. “Tina!”

Tina was holding her face with one hand, staring at her furious father in confusion.

Julia was flabbergasted as well, but she was also infuriated. “Are you mad, Titus? Why’d you slap your daughter?”

“Why did I slap her, you ask? Do you have any idea what this girl did?” Titus was pointing at Tina with a trembling finger.

Tina finally got up with her mother’s help. “What? What did I do, Dad?” She stared at her father tearfully.

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

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

I’m getting the deal, I thought you slept your way into the company. Turns out I got the deal because you

Tina averted her gaze

quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did you have to slap

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

froze up. “I-I didn’t know there

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

stared down in fearful

patted Titus’ back. “It can’t be that bad, can it,

I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred. The whole town’s gonna laugh at

this as well. The next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re gonna treat you like

made Julia nervous. “T-They

answer

her husband. And seconds later, she shot

well, so she started acting the victim again. “But I did it all for you, Dad.

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

because 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

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 she quickly stared down, pretending

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

to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out of anger. Don’t

nodded. “I want to be alone for a bit, Mom. You should leave.” Her

“Alright then.” Julia sighed.

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