She, Charlotte, was his daughter, and his only daughter at that. He would protect her no matter what!
Charlotte curled her lips into a smirk and repeated gleefully, "I said that you're an even bigger monster than I am, Quentin."
Her triumphant smirk was nothing but a threat to Quentin.
Quentin narrowed his eyes, lunged forward, and wrapped his hand around her throat, lifting her from the ground by her neck. "Charlotte, there's plenty of things that I choose to let go of simply because I know your mother never taught you any better when you were young, but some things aren't supposed to be said."
He stared at Charlotte with a gaze so cold there was not even a hint of emotion a father was supposed to have toward his child in it. "Do you understand?"
"Ack!" Charlotte coughed. understand... " Her entire face had turned scarlet from the lack of oxygen, looking as though she would die at any moment.
She struggled against his grip and begged for his mercy, "L.I'm sorry, Quen—no... Father... I'm sorry..."
The murderous look in Quentin's eyes dissipated as soon as he heard this.
He narrowed his eyes and shot Charlotte another glare before finally placing her down on the ground. "There are some things that I don't mind you saying at all, but if you choose to be this rude again, I'll show you how cruel I can be; it'll be as though I never even had a daughter."
Then, he turned and left.
Charlotte slumped against her bed, gasping for air. A split second later, just as Quentin was about to disappear from view, she finally could not stop herself from asking," Sirius, you told me that you never liked my mother at all and that sleeping with her had been entirely an accident, but if that was the case, why did you force her to go through with the pregnancy?"
Charlotte knew that she was an unwanted child; her parents had already been separated even before she was born.
After giving birth to her, Charlotte's mother had spent most of her time crying in front of the grave of a man named Sirius, >d)= QIX; Charlotte had grown up thinking that she did not have a father, that he was dead.
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