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.

face, and she started to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face

it does.” Tina bit her lip, tears

deal, I thought you slept your way into the company. Turns out I got the deal because you switched my

at once, Tina

quickly. “So

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

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

stared down in

back. “It can’t be that bad, can it,

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

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

finally made Julia nervous. “T-They

get your answer eventually.” Titus

her husband. And seconds later,

acting the victim again. “But I did it all for you, Dad. I wanted

blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” She nodded.

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

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

getting the better of him, Titus felt his migraine kicking in. “You’re grounded for two days. Think over what you did during this period of time.” He massaged his temples and went downstairs to

Titus was gone, Julia went to calm Tina down. “Your father was just saying that out

bit, Mom. You should leave.” Her voice started

“Alright then.” Julia sighed.

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