Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading882Please respect copyright.PENANAGXSM2Mkgo2
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 882Please respect copyright.PENANAEcgLYwURqZ
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 882Please respect copyright.PENANA4EOi8M9rM6
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 882Please respect copyright.PENANAVNt82peKMi
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?882Please respect copyright.PENANAA8TJ32qyiL
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college882Please respect copyright.PENANAfZkuBpd0lr
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had882Please respect copyright.PENANA4ouDP7AVCC
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 882Please respect copyright.PENANAAmakvsxGHX
boss a call.882Please respect copyright.PENANAq9gXgibw47
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.882Please respect copyright.PENANADdLEoqPDxO
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."882Please respect copyright.PENANAXXJEM4EHPa
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."882Please respect copyright.PENANAuLxuNzXTyV
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."882Please respect copyright.PENANAywJGFNhAmy
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAmKkL6OVvQn
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 882Please respect copyright.PENANAd8YoxG0oP2
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 882Please respect copyright.PENANAKfePfdtflL
looked really tired and restless.882Please respect copyright.PENANAr60WIS4PRY
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.882Please respect copyright.PENANATtDEtUOAKw
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came882Please respect copyright.PENANAmPayQ9tgZX
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 882Please respect copyright.PENANAR1WZ6riHQQ
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 882Please respect copyright.PENANAFFyFnY0bgv
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 882Please respect copyright.PENANAZwzLsg5yDH
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 882Please respect copyright.PENANAjlBlJTv0YU
huge loss.882Please respect copyright.PENANAxVBwZTVfny
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 882Please respect copyright.PENANAtd55Lfx3kh
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 882Please respect copyright.PENANAoXcANkXzXK
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."882Please respect copyright.PENANAnog4nBpAbb
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."882Please respect copyright.PENANASQdlODUvlP
"What are you planning to do?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAAXkYraiKFv
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."882Please respect copyright.PENANAZWg7qTsaW3
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 882Please respect copyright.PENANAkU8fCWxH5Y
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 882Please respect copyright.PENANAOPjlAVaKQx
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 882Please respect copyright.PENANAAt3akZAoja
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.882Please respect copyright.PENANApAHs8knpSo
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.882Please respect copyright.PENANAfxCQcwx5av
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 882Please respect copyright.PENANARZd52KvpYO
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 882Please respect copyright.PENANAIhnsCZ0b4x
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 882Please respect copyright.PENANAyrBbjSGBPJ
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 882Please respect copyright.PENANAs2L4U2ap2g
vacant space weren't as good as her.882Please respect copyright.PENANAitq5Bp1Jo8
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 882Please respect copyright.PENANADFFO6JJtka
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 882Please respect copyright.PENANALcLuf86Z6c
lucky charm.882Please respect copyright.PENANA5RSHfIi96B
And he needed her back real bad.882Please respect copyright.PENANAwu9Ypc9NMI
He picked up his phone that was on the table and made a phone call. At the fourth ring, the person at the other end picked up.882Please respect copyright.PENANAqO3l7fr1l1
"I have a job for you."882Please respect copyright.PENANAH5PnVcSZaD
***882Please respect copyright.PENANAllpYMdUCGb
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.882Please respect copyright.PENANAZeFR5HGw8L
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 882Please respect copyright.PENANAqRo3HRmBwk
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 882Please respect copyright.PENANAsRMFTPagoz
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.882Please respect copyright.PENANA0YUcHdtUa1
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAfwzLJ5efJ6
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAI0stOvITP0
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 882Please respect copyright.PENANAQfycVYWn3h
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't882Please respect copyright.PENANAYitHJoVW5j
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 882Please respect copyright.PENANAnQ7S7FZHAj
serious.882Please respect copyright.PENANARocN6Rj6c4
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAzp0etaFxcb
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.882Please respect copyright.PENANApLRzZSZI29
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."882Please respect copyright.PENANA12v0nxYuzA
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.882Please respect copyright.PENANAv1dnGu2ecS
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."882Please respect copyright.PENANAPgUWNAeyEu
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.882Please respect copyright.PENANAwfQ27hG7fq
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're882Please respect copyright.PENANAcziboD4AT8
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 882Please respect copyright.PENANABw0Gq7dT2B
between the two of you considering what happened."882Please respect copyright.PENANA1szp2PxQJY
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.882Please respect copyright.PENANAWaC6JEDWmF
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."882Please respect copyright.PENANAsHzbn5JIGw
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAU5rXPYM3nd
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."882Please respect copyright.PENANAFhUnfnS0WP
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.882Please respect copyright.PENANAA1DmodeR1h
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."882Please respect copyright.PENANASiHrH3YKkf
"And you never apologised for it," said 882Please respect copyright.PENANATd6Y7ercf5
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 882Please respect copyright.PENANAyLvhUL246v
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 882Please respect copyright.PENANALeayHiF8M1
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."882Please respect copyright.PENANAJjDBMSx7Yg
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 882Please respect copyright.PENANABZjzYfYNlf
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 882Please respect copyright.PENANAV0A2uNBTXx
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 882Please respect copyright.PENANA0squLFvRS7
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 882Please respect copyright.PENANAcp4WwihoAi
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 882Please respect copyright.PENANAdhwaBtAlwP
for what happened to her.882Please respect copyright.PENANAYZfhuseWCM
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.882Please respect copyright.PENANA84vKdMshdv
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 882Please respect copyright.PENANApN5R0UVVT9
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 882Please respect copyright.PENANA402FMRtouH
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAyK7pwiEbnH
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If882Please respect copyright.PENANA7dsEd3VrVR
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 882Please respect copyright.PENANA6KQ9aXi4ft
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 882Please respect copyright.PENANA4DR81RHlda
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 882Please respect copyright.PENANAhKG0Y8qeEH
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 882Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8NvHV9FBX
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 882Please respect copyright.PENANALX7WepmfU7
back at the club.882Please respect copyright.PENANA47OBRjeQNa
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 882Please respect copyright.PENANA0Prn64Xin0
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 882Please respect copyright.PENANALaSKmssBvu
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 882Please respect copyright.PENANAMjcGNn1zMT
sisters completely.882Please respect copyright.PENANAFBY0Coz0L6
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."882Please respect copyright.PENANAHgYEadSzQU
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 882Please respect copyright.PENANAvT4bNroT7l
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.882Please respect copyright.PENANATY4GqdGyad
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.882Please respect copyright.PENANAo2sNTNaeRf
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 882Please respect copyright.PENANAJ7Tspwv66l
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 882Please respect copyright.PENANAcanRhomKu7
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 882Please respect copyright.PENANAPuZP6kYKhf
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 882Please respect copyright.PENANAn5MsnZw3g4
club, not him.882Please respect copyright.PENANAjpGESOObaM
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."882Please respect copyright.PENANAJkAqD7t7J8
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.882Please respect copyright.PENANA9DczLBby0h
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."882Please respect copyright.PENANAzlXjFE9xsR
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two882Please respect copyright.PENANAvG0WIQ3AaT
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 882Please respect copyright.PENANAyPlm7gyswW
at each other yet, have you?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAO97vtm2Bkw
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAJEIzQrAFBG
"No," they answered at the same time.882Please respect copyright.PENANA4Smty2sYbV
"Great. That's good to know."882Please respect copyright.PENANAs5GUf5zyyI
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.882Please respect copyright.PENANAXbYhfC8bfg
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.882Please respect copyright.PENANAmm8sIrI5F7
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAsIo8f46gMt
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take882Please respect copyright.PENANA7nlo4sifJp
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."882Please respect copyright.PENANAGuyo7idfVJ
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.882Please respect copyright.PENANARaZE28sugC
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."882Please respect copyright.PENANAwh5tTb881t
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"882Please respect copyright.PENANA6GGtejz4ZU
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 882Please respect copyright.PENANAoTo66x1FFY
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 882Please respect copyright.PENANAg1coSTyXTs
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't882Please respect copyright.PENANA3xFSLiUQDI
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 882Please respect copyright.PENANAPQJOI9ABrK
long."882Please respect copyright.PENANAlPQgC5mjlS
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.882Please respect copyright.PENANA7fL9tvjOtL
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.882Please respect copyright.PENANAKzvGyI3w68
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."882Please respect copyright.PENANARZHHgSLMQZ
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.882Please respect copyright.PENANApfO7zY0BMj
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.882Please respect copyright.PENANAbLnh5v9jlH
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.882Please respect copyright.PENANAhCMQDJM2M5
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.882Please respect copyright.PENANAm2JEAWi3Ox
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that882Please respect copyright.PENANAUcw52Gc6ih
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 882Please respect copyright.PENANAdBlIxi5Hz3
Not like this. Something was wrong.882Please respect copyright.PENANA4fNUTfuasx
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.882Please respect copyright.PENANAoG92m4HJPy
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 882Please respect copyright.PENANA2TtqFcyHEG
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that882Please respect copyright.PENANAT9n1ubB3M0
embarrassed?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAQwsWRDw4Ha
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 882Please respect copyright.PENANA9F0a5Bponl
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her882Please respect copyright.PENANAUstOM8hprc
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.882Please respect copyright.PENANAMtpb63LnP8
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 882Please respect copyright.PENANAsqoxu3KDnV
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 882Please respect copyright.PENANASY2tZkkgsb
today?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAMMR1Um3dmb
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 882Please respect copyright.PENANAcvtYkGnZgr
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 882Please respect copyright.PENANAt24bQDIp6f
you want."882Please respect copyright.PENANApGWj1l4wTV
"It worked for you, didn't it?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAw7Imc7SRLy
"What do you mean?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAa9FP0t2WPB
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 882Please respect copyright.PENANAIqEME2Ggdj
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 882Please respect copyright.PENANAvyIfoeqjrX
sister."882Please respect copyright.PENANAUjKpDGco4O
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."882Please respect copyright.PENANAw5s3QJQG2n
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."882Please respect copyright.PENANAvmGJxy3Blu
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."882Please respect copyright.PENANASHylCyKIOa
"I'm just speaking the truth."882Please respect copyright.PENANAPH4BUCIqer
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."882Please respect copyright.PENANAz9MvzjXEIL
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."882Please respect copyright.PENANATJ2jrrFN1d
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."882Please respect copyright.PENANARh4oJbFvIZ
"I was protecting my sister."882Please respect copyright.PENANAJScQjkdeyc
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 882Please respect copyright.PENANAEI6xwYeaQq
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 882Please respect copyright.PENANAesAA1sMxiG
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."882Please respect copyright.PENANAeis9q1VsAi
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 882Please respect copyright.PENANAaATAt1CkLM
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.882Please respect copyright.PENANA8HhjmXyobx
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 882Please respect copyright.PENANA8WPdLawyvi
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 882Please respect copyright.PENANAFKvsaRLaKL
betray you like Carly betrayed me."882Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6iukGp2Fl
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 882Please respect copyright.PENANAOoUqz1AtoB
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 882Please respect copyright.PENANAM1Y0vsPqjh
crystal glass.882Please respect copyright.PENANAO8j1AEuyJA
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 882Please respect copyright.PENANAFYtTTRwZSD
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 882Please respect copyright.PENANAZJsSxOedZN
in this situation right now."882Please respect copyright.PENANAstArP44xNK
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 882Please respect copyright.PENANAYRA95ncWxJ
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 882Please respect copyright.PENANA2HE8ZqYYtC
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 882Please respect copyright.PENANAa4r6USMTb9
actions.882Please respect copyright.PENANAVh5iBr5ZVg
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.882Please respect copyright.PENANANtjgOTwXbu
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 882Please respect copyright.PENANAt5nS6QKU5W
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 882Please respect copyright.PENANA4py07YG2BW
near Carly."882Please respect copyright.PENANAXhDPWJ2YH4
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."882Please respect copyright.PENANAs8GEl075ht
"That's what you think. Isn't that what all men think when they go to the club and think they are in love with some......"882Please respect copyright.PENANAqwxcUsgGI3
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 882Please respect copyright.PENANAByYJF2EtSB
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting882Please respect copyright.PENANAC1VrvCWtUx
Carly, she would be insulting herself.882Please respect copyright.PENANAGhkUu6e5J9
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.882Please respect copyright.PENANAnaxX2S790R
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAgQde6evtUg
"That would never happen."882Please respect copyright.PENANA7R85neFV9W
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."882Please respect copyright.PENANAEt6VMsgPSd
"A fool in love, yes."882Please respect copyright.PENANAlgWMpLvtV9
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."882Please respect copyright.PENANA4OMG4hSDbO
"Why? Because you don't like me?"882Please respect copyright.PENANA6FuCVCuA28
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.882Please respect copyright.PENANACO1ufBVMdK
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 882Please respect copyright.PENANAIUwES15fra
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 882Please respect copyright.PENANAZuWL1JVhQX
and my accident that she would ever change."882Please respect copyright.PENANAfPEz35ddci
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."882Please respect copyright.PENANA59IwccgMtu
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,882Please respect copyright.PENANAptKFoXMRHW
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."882Please respect copyright.PENANAGUqRURRFUN
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?882Please respect copyright.PENANAmkWUv7e1MR
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.882Please respect copyright.PENANAOU9FwgKeOw
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAhlUbyznKN8
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 882Please respect copyright.PENANAUdr7rdcqkg
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 882Please respect copyright.PENANAiHOSdWBm6A
puzzled.882Please respect copyright.PENANAhbKi5JmtEf
***882Please respect copyright.PENANAwRaTZ6rYWg
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 882Please respect copyright.PENANAt6yQZBZZtm
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 882Please respect copyright.PENANAbRQ410Q01b
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.882Please respect copyright.PENANAzMxQUWP7M7
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."882Please respect copyright.PENANAS0J8LMd7i9
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 882Please respect copyright.PENANAAZyb1WLXmo
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 882Please respect copyright.PENANAdvWi63lM5S
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 882Please respect copyright.PENANAOshNH6G2pU
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 882Please respect copyright.PENANAQD45kSiyza
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.882Please respect copyright.PENANAfjvW46disI
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 882Please respect copyright.PENANAy1BHKmrOer
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 882Please respect copyright.PENANA1lx5jr1vfJ
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 882Please respect copyright.PENANA3tApdeqgQm
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 882Please respect copyright.PENANAQTf6pCqdW0
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 882Please respect copyright.PENANAV1aR0emcQ5
McDonell should be.882Please respect copyright.PENANAo0qto2bWn3
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:882Please respect copyright.PENANAn0AOtzyq0e
"Our family has been successfully with the 882Please respect copyright.PENANA0E7ozhKFII
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 882Please respect copyright.PENANA42yvk55O7M
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 882Please respect copyright.PENANAjnPIPwPBLB
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 882Please respect copyright.PENANAjbZMxnRav5
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in882Please respect copyright.PENANAtn6QJXrW5j
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 882Please respect copyright.PENANAejuSqWrZQq
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 882Please respect copyright.PENANACDyWyF4CCY
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 882Please respect copyright.PENANALs1OSFxnup
especially from my brother. He is so kind."882Please respect copyright.PENANA8Ps8TPvjjz
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help882Please respect copyright.PENANAjOK2zbQWyi
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't882Please respect copyright.PENANA3EE5Mp6HEi
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 882Please respect copyright.PENANALw2MtRSy5p
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role882Please respect copyright.PENANA0env351tiz
model.882Please respect copyright.PENANAo3u2VeBKfz
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 882Please respect copyright.PENANALLTwBJCwQh
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 882Please respect copyright.PENANAyIYZ6MJmhR
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 882Please respect copyright.PENANA3uZUyf6S15
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big882Please respect copyright.PENANAXRPHqk8UkW
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 882Please respect copyright.PENANAa1eneWvBRW
the financial state her family was in.882Please respect copyright.PENANALCHUPGthGO
But now that she was with the McDonell 882Please respect copyright.PENANAnD7W4HEMGo
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life882Please respect copyright.PENANAPmkrh8k2fl
she has always wanted.882Please respect copyright.PENANAwu3OgwII9y
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.882Please respect copyright.PENANAuIteJd4F7R
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing882Please respect copyright.PENANAjLJOzu6JzA
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 882Please respect copyright.PENANAKa9YbpchFD
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.882Please respect copyright.PENANAFNIKtL17Nd
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.882Please respect copyright.PENANAYLvPcquFrV
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"882Please respect copyright.PENANAgyfMi6ZrmX
"That would be awesome."882Please respect copyright.PENANAR0XK8qz03G
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 882Please respect copyright.PENANAWoW5FfzpZI
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 882Please respect copyright.PENANAepF1lsm40x
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.882Please respect copyright.PENANAm2odFy0fgc
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 882Please respect copyright.PENANAUVS1s4eMCE
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 882Please respect copyright.PENANAZ9G9Jiv1ti
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had882Please respect copyright.PENANAna50chR5lB
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 882Please respect copyright.PENANAdzZKluAd5j
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.882Please respect copyright.PENANA9LvktrGRGk
Miranda.882Please respect copyright.PENANAGA0V921aT1
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 882Please respect copyright.PENANANsx4v2HLx4
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 882Please respect copyright.PENANAHi5aM2w4Bg
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 882Please respect copyright.PENANApSPyhJPFQH
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 882Please respect copyright.PENANAnumJGgvjo0
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.882Please respect copyright.PENANASlQ9PFvUde
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 882Please respect copyright.PENANAOFlFEz20Qs
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 882Please respect copyright.PENANAfXDLuHRQ3G
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 882Please respect copyright.PENANAX0ZgaJ8zWX
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 882Please respect copyright.PENANAvgKSkUVawM
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 882Please respect copyright.PENANAjkiscy6ADc
she never ever discussed her life with them.882Please respect copyright.PENANAKfOzCB6OzC
Could it be Miranda?882Please respect copyright.PENANA3DSYuCT8FP
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She882Please respect copyright.PENANAynCquf8P6T
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 882Please respect copyright.PENANA1RbnyYI486
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 882Please respect copyright.PENANAbbTcx9iL7T
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.882Please respect copyright.PENANApYBu6KUokn
And now she was calling Carly after all this882Please respect copyright.PENANABGpC84xiCa
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 882Please respect copyright.PENANAiCZRNdrK67
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't882Please respect copyright.PENANAmhW9JM1sI0
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her882Please respect copyright.PENANAKTMXJ7Yfw3
betrayal.882Please respect copyright.PENANAa0yWGf94fL
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of882Please respect copyright.PENANAgF3RewIu8r
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 882Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6ythKOnHa
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.882Please respect copyright.PENANA5Zch4y2kgH
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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