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.

what did she do?” Julia touched Tina’s face, and she started to cry. “Does

Tina bit her

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

at once, Tina averted her

actions off quickly. “So what? That’s no big deal. Did you have

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

didn’t know there was

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?”

stared down in fearful

back. “It can’t be that bad,

who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s

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

finally made Julia

get your answer

believed her husband. And seconds later, she shot a complicated

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

blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded. “Tina’s out of

why she turned out this way, because you keep defending her. She’s a cruel, dumb woman. That’s one

That comment fueled the deep, dark hatred within her,

grounded for two days. Think over

father was just saying that out of anger.

to be alone for a bit, Mom. You should leave.” Her voice started

“Alright then.” Julia sighed.

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