Officer Miller’s face began to grow redder and redder.
Wendy could not take it anymore.
“Dad, I am your one and only daughter, so why are you giving so much care to an outsider? Am I your offspring, or is he?” Wendy still couldn’t figure out Officer Miller’s bizarre action. She pointed at Boyce and asked vehemently.
Officer Miller clutched his chest and felt his rage consuming him. Why was this daughter of his so disobedient and unwilling to take an advice?
“Are you trying to make me so mad that I can die?” Officer Miller was breathing heavily as he said that.
Wendy cried until her whole face was covered in goo and ears, “You are always protective of him and you didn’t so much as give me half of that attention while I am your daughter. Ever since I was a child, have you ever cared for me? Don’t you think it’s too late to educate me now?”
Officer Miller was staggering backwards until his butt hit the sofa. He looked like he had just heard the most unbelievable thing in the world. He was always busy, so his daughter was raised mostly by his wife. Of course, Wendy would take after his wife in the way that both of them were pretty unreasonable.
“It’s my fault, it’s all my own fault.” Officer Miller was in so much grief.
He didn’t watch over her a lot when she was a child, now that she was an adult, it seemed that he had lost his authority to have a word with her.
He was deeply regretful.
He regretted that he didn’t accompany her in her growing days and educate her.
“Dad.” Wendy was shocked by her father’s complexion as she hurried forward to calm him down. Officer Miller had such a distorted expression that she was afraid that he would faint.
Officer Miller was beginning to enter his twilight years, and he had served as the head officer of the station for an extended period of time. He was always serious in work which made him a respected man, and even after his retirement, his former subordinates and colleagues would greet and welcome him with open arm, yet at this moment…
His own daughter was so ridiculous that he felt that he had lost all face!
With his breathing still short and ragged, he said while giving a stern stare at her daughter, “You are right. I have brought you into this world, yet I didn’t raise you up well. Now that you have made a mistake, I am actually the one to be blamed. I am the one at fault here.”
“I am your father after all, and I have some responsibility in your actions and mistakes. If you don’t want to apologize, I will do that in your place!” Officer Miller turned to look at Boyce, “I didn’t raise my daughter well…”
“Dad, don’t apologize to him. He thought that by taking over the head officer’s position he could be so disrespectful now. He is able to achieve whatever up till this point because of your help, but now just because of something so minor, he wants to find fault with you. He doesn’t know what is gratitude, and someone like that is not someone to be respected!”
“You…” Officer Miller’s face was ugly with a greenish color as if the next thing to expect from him was him passing out on the spot.
Boyce sighed secretly as he wasn’t actually that petty when it comes to his former superior. He was loathing his own daughter to the core, and that warranted Boyce’s attention now.
“Officer Miller, I am not angry.”
Officer Miller held Boyce’s hand and he struggled mightily to make himself able to speak. Only after a short while did he open his mouth, “I am sorry to you.”
Her daughter had committed more than just a single mistake.
He knew that very well.
“Wendy, oh Wendy. We must talk reason all the time. Tell me, what did Boyce do that offend you? Can you force things without any real feelings between two people? You didn’t just stop at the first mistake, and I didn’t think I had it in me to scold you. Like you said, I care for you too less so I am not worthy to reprimand you. I just feel sorry for you, and that is why I chose to turn a blind eye towards what you have done.”
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