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.

touched Tina’s face, and she started to cry. “Does it hurt, Tina?” Her face was already red, obviously because

her lip, tears

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 my proposal

once, Tina averted her

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

clean job. Sure, Tom was distracted, but there

up. “I-I didn’t know there was

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. Do you know how bad this is going to be

stared down in

can’t

Now everyone knows I have a daughter who tried to cheat her way through the competition. My reputation’s scarred.

at Julia. “You’re gonna get dragged into this as well. The next time you go on an outing with your friends, they’re gonna

made Julia nervous. “T-They won’t,

get your answer

believed her husband. And seconds later, she

blame her for this disaster as well, so she started acting the victim

Julia stopped blaming her. “Yeah, honey.” 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,

that Titus only 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 she

grounded for two days. Think over what you did during this period of time.” He massaged his temples and went downstairs to get

went to calm Tina down. “Your father was

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

“Alright then.” Julia sighed.

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