Tina’s expression froze. The next second, she was trembling with rage.
As a high school principal of considerable status, she couldn’t believe a young man was schooling her! She was seething with anger.
Ignoring her image, Tina snapped back sharply, “Young man, who are you calling narrow-minded and ignorant?”
“You,” Cameron replied coolly and fixed his gaze on Tina.
Tina was nearly driven to madness.
“Young man, how dare you speak to my mother like that!” Miles stood up abruptly and slammed his hand on the table.
“Is there something wrong with what I said?” Cameron looked at the family coldly. “Mr. and Mrs. Jennings have always been polite to you, yet from the moment you walked in, you’ve been trying to belittle and suppress them. Is this what a Director of Taxation does? Gaining a sense of superiority by oppressing others?” Cameron challenged. He added, “Or is it that a principal who has received plenty of education books fails to understand the basic principles of human decency?”
“You son of !”
Tina was so flustered by Cameron’s words that she couldn’t speak. Her face turned beet red as she struggled to catch her breath.
“That’s enough!” Zack shouted angrily.
His gaze darkened as he looked at Cameron. “Kid, do you really think you’re someone significant enough to talk to us this way?”
“Today, I’ll overlook this because of my friendship with your father-in-law, but you have to apologize to my wife now!”
“Apologize?” Cameron laughed. “She should be the one to apologize first for her disrespectful behavior toward Mr. and Mrs. Jennings.
“You!” Zack’s voice wavered momentarily before he exclaimed, “What a downright insufferable young man!”
“Insufferable?”Cameron’s eyes flashed with a cold light. “Isn’t it you who slandered my parents-in-law first? How am I the insufferable one?”
“My wife has seen through countless
