?Chapter 2709


    "Huh? Did I raise you just so you could talk back to me like this? And don''t get me started on your job! It''s not even a proper job! You''re just exchanging five or six hours a day for a monthly sry of four hundred dors! What''s the point of that?Content from N?velDr(a)ma.Org.


    "And what''s even worse is the whole world now knows I let my daughter go work as an errand girl! Do you know what my friend Neal said to me thest time we had coffee? He said that no matter how busy I am with my career, I should take good care of my daughter. I shouldn''t let you run around and do this kind of work. I didn''t know how to respond to him. Should I have said that my daughter was eager to experience hardships?"


    Rita knew where her father stood in society. He would not be particrly understanding of the work of grassroots journalists like her, but she never imagined that her father would think of her like this.


    "I''m doing the work of a journalist; it''s a legitimate job. If you have nothing good to say about it, you can just keep quiet. I don''t expect you to understand me anymore. Instead of wasting time thinking about all that, why don''t you focus more on finding out why your wife and her daughter are so hellbent on wrongly using me of stealing a bangle? Dad, you really disappoint me."


    After saying that, Rita did not even look back. She just left the mansion.


    Vince, holding back his anger, had nowhere to vent, so he could only angrily scold Karen, "Did you baselessly use my daughter? From the day you moved in here, I warned you not to have any ulterior motives toward her! After living afortable life for so many years, have you forgotten how you crawled out of that slum back then? Let me tell you: if I could bring you out against all odds back then, I can also put you back in that ce now."


    Karen cried pitifully. "Vince, what are you saying? How can you suspect me just because Rita said a few words? Today''s dinner party is so important, so how could I do such a childish thing? I''m not a child, you know? Have I ever made any mistakes in all these years I''ve been married to you? And now, just because of what your daughter said, you turn and suspect me..."


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    Feeling annoyed by her tears, Vince did not console her. He stormed back into his study. When he was alone, he carefully took out a framed photo he had kept for a long time from the drawer.


    In the frame was an old photo of him and another woman. The woman''s face looked familiar, and upon closer inspection, bore some resemnce to Rita. This woman was his first wife-Taya Rose.


    When Rita was born, Vince decided to include the syble ''Ta'' from his wife''s name in her name. That was just how in love Vince and Taya were in love with each other. He had hoped that his daughter would resemble her mother more, but he never thought. Rita would lose her mother forever at such a young age. "Taya, is it because I am an irresponsible father, and that''s why our daughter has grown up to be so rebellious? Recently, I kept asking myself whether I should''ve married Karen in the first ce. Do you me me too? I just wanted Rita to have a mother, but I did a poor job, and she still refuses to call Karen'' Mom''. If I hadn''t done this, maybe Rita wouldn''t be so rebellious."