Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading908Please respect copyright.PENANA5jdnkutjBh
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 908Please respect copyright.PENANAlCsBHkNnnD
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 908Please respect copyright.PENANAP9a0FE3OJ5
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 908Please respect copyright.PENANAPONBWQZIgH
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?908Please respect copyright.PENANAHlJET09Ozp
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college908Please respect copyright.PENANAIH2HM2S6qe
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had908Please respect copyright.PENANAnGhdzz1Pt5
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 908Please respect copyright.PENANAJj8bUkYp42
boss a call.908Please respect copyright.PENANAeqgxwhe9Lv
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.908Please respect copyright.PENANAsc5wUq8PDL
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."908Please respect copyright.PENANAFWgl8NPDOg
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."908Please respect copyright.PENANAsGkb4bvrcN
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."908Please respect copyright.PENANAGlCFFULd4O
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAFMf1eMimz0
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 908Please respect copyright.PENANAlRDDDjkTQ4
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 908Please respect copyright.PENANArI76WF5Rlm
looked really tired and restless.908Please respect copyright.PENANAxT2Z94RjF4
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.908Please respect copyright.PENANArLDjTbF52x
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came908Please respect copyright.PENANAa9BavQ3tcr
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 908Please respect copyright.PENANAR00qv17mTT
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 908Please respect copyright.PENANAYoifJpid9t
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 908Please respect copyright.PENANACWyz192x5r
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 908Please respect copyright.PENANAQiBhVi24Z9
huge loss.908Please respect copyright.PENANAfer4CB5JXC
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 908Please respect copyright.PENANASM6tujRH61
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 908Please respect copyright.PENANAPRBBUZhORd
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."908Please respect copyright.PENANADX6YAAVbNd
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."908Please respect copyright.PENANAMHBFjWkvHj
"What are you planning to do?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAe4Gda8UxQt
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."908Please respect copyright.PENANAWqsx6gvyp0
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 908Please respect copyright.PENANAt33zYzYzsM
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 908Please respect copyright.PENANAl30owN30tx
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 908Please respect copyright.PENANAbjiEqtqg13
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.908Please respect copyright.PENANAH7q3kNdZJi
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.908Please respect copyright.PENANA6GRo2ro1Mt
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 908Please respect copyright.PENANARECaLtrho9
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 908Please respect copyright.PENANAYFJ0ZBqqiJ
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 908Please respect copyright.PENANA2oaWsVZPJ9
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 908Please respect copyright.PENANA70AXrwYboi
vacant space weren't as good as her.908Please respect copyright.PENANAgYiaDEA7kO
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 908Please respect copyright.PENANAZF9wEFG9u3
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 908Please respect copyright.PENANAe2b6yhLTH7
lucky charm.908Please respect copyright.PENANAKoHCWP3V6I
And he needed her back real bad.908Please respect copyright.PENANAs1FOglrKwI
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.908Please respect copyright.PENANAr1gSy8TFZU
"I have a job for you."908Please respect copyright.PENANANzHqfrkBWe
***908Please respect copyright.PENANAOEhuyP0Pmc
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.908Please respect copyright.PENANA6GviIzWQai
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 908Please respect copyright.PENANAASqgve91wX
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 908Please respect copyright.PENANAPSILJOj9mo
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.908Please respect copyright.PENANAp9Z00yF2x8
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.908Please respect copyright.PENANAgKAi9bFfcr
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.908Please respect copyright.PENANAuja9iZkQU7
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 908Please respect copyright.PENANAAIe8lp1bB6
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't908Please respect copyright.PENANAbd3ocJ8uCo
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 908Please respect copyright.PENANAFHMu4H86jl
serious.908Please respect copyright.PENANA9jlXAW4yIw
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.908Please respect copyright.PENANAdZoT1Mablm
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.908Please respect copyright.PENANAjZzEbTWAuo
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."908Please respect copyright.PENANAPDHJNOVnGt
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.908Please respect copyright.PENANAQrCvxQXwgt
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."908Please respect copyright.PENANAUgDIegdyC6
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.908Please respect copyright.PENANAFFNGfQXLBZ
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're908Please respect copyright.PENANAMbIpsBFWLx
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 908Please respect copyright.PENANAgyvHMThU0O
between the two of you considering what happened."908Please respect copyright.PENANAOAtKEqsmcs
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.908Please respect copyright.PENANATrkbivEG4u
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."908Please respect copyright.PENANAyWgT3JaMcj
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAPEYDIPnww8
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."908Please respect copyright.PENANAYKuuQgNWvF
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.908Please respect copyright.PENANA8lD5UOrzBt
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."908Please respect copyright.PENANATaQFE9ziqq
"And you never apologised for it," said 908Please respect copyright.PENANAEewt7ArUX0
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 908Please respect copyright.PENANAdOJgeKjoNM
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 908Please respect copyright.PENANA5YEiiMqlAh
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."908Please respect copyright.PENANA59vWD4eVuR
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 908Please respect copyright.PENANAH1L4SEhkal
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 908Please respect copyright.PENANAVC0EyxGHoo
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 908Please respect copyright.PENANAvbc99JTIeC
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 908Please respect copyright.PENANAw1pUaTLzTK
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 908Please respect copyright.PENANAQSAFJW083a
for what happened to her.908Please respect copyright.PENANAtjoDjTnuSy
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.908Please respect copyright.PENANAE8A0t2j8m7
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 908Please respect copyright.PENANAGv9IBpZjLG
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 908Please respect copyright.PENANAWsxnrATMM4
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"908Please respect copyright.PENANA85WHu142mo
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If908Please respect copyright.PENANAZfVgRufKQ5
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 908Please respect copyright.PENANArkHQCHOfdw
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 908Please respect copyright.PENANAB3JgZOD2GD
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 908Please respect copyright.PENANAqL5IVhukxa
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 908Please respect copyright.PENANAWgFspoyvDH
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 908Please respect copyright.PENANA1QbMvfRnGt
back at the club.908Please respect copyright.PENANAbjFeCrI4QR
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 908Please respect copyright.PENANA21RZYqo9eT
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 908Please respect copyright.PENANAu7UQaufaZE
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 908Please respect copyright.PENANAkd590cdsfk
sisters completely.908Please respect copyright.PENANAsbdZYIJVIl
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."908Please respect copyright.PENANApHEfrhLquC
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 908Please respect copyright.PENANAJkAoTXBN5r
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.908Please respect copyright.PENANAqkZgyWH7Rm
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.908Please respect copyright.PENANAyNcSSIu5JE
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 908Please respect copyright.PENANAE1QFqfCj1f
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 908Please respect copyright.PENANA2ikZMemZPi
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 908Please respect copyright.PENANAmZfQXx5L6v
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 908Please respect copyright.PENANAhgsGI7UjRx
club, not him.908Please respect copyright.PENANAQWFXTDWYgd
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."908Please respect copyright.PENANA5b0zZ98ELK
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.908Please respect copyright.PENANAocgsqpuunD
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."908Please respect copyright.PENANAblnA4Aypm7
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two908Please respect copyright.PENANACGO0uVFLEb
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 908Please respect copyright.PENANAeXLR6jum16
at each other yet, have you?"908Please respect copyright.PENANA4EEJAA3iqy
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.908Please respect copyright.PENANAztyB9GK3IW
"No," they answered at the same time.908Please respect copyright.PENANAgmXjUCINSL
"Great. That's good to know."908Please respect copyright.PENANAgulw0QYrf5
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.908Please respect copyright.PENANAQ93McJBgo4
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.908Please respect copyright.PENANAz3ksxfuEuz
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.908Please respect copyright.PENANA9z0dJljmgZ
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take908Please respect copyright.PENANAykR0K4a6TH
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."908Please respect copyright.PENANAhyPVoioE5v
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.908Please respect copyright.PENANAEOkVgbEtuf
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."908Please respect copyright.PENANAbe3xlA3AU1
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"908Please respect copyright.PENANAdwshCWFUiK
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 908Please respect copyright.PENANAZIN0snpJ5n
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 908Please respect copyright.PENANAzZR7p5Fcen
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't908Please respect copyright.PENANAD2e5gVSjZW
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 908Please respect copyright.PENANAsbqHWCoBj9
long."908Please respect copyright.PENANA2oQJs0Jv40
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.908Please respect copyright.PENANA4WFlxoRBdY
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.908Please respect copyright.PENANA9WnPoCrS4c
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."908Please respect copyright.PENANAjjlK1AjxAf
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.908Please respect copyright.PENANA3kDMzKU3tP
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.908Please respect copyright.PENANAMKrDqXXURh
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.908Please respect copyright.PENANA8PnC8RbCvS
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.908Please respect copyright.PENANAHepMr1p0RZ
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that908Please respect copyright.PENANAEu3N8S0vNC
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 908Please respect copyright.PENANANrBRspGJCd
Not like this. Something was wrong.908Please respect copyright.PENANAtrtmLfTtsV
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.908Please respect copyright.PENANAYuYKD4qfXQ
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 908Please respect copyright.PENANAZroh7maCv0
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that908Please respect copyright.PENANAPocXjSdwPV
embarrassed?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAcIveDDUhII
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 908Please respect copyright.PENANATbuzPlpw9s
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her908Please respect copyright.PENANAVDjVlsAI6d
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.908Please respect copyright.PENANAoKXY6UuGNW
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 908Please respect copyright.PENANAwCzBipW859
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 908Please respect copyright.PENANAmULIm0m4KO
today?"908Please respect copyright.PENANApo2kO6P9T4
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 908Please respect copyright.PENANAAehGFYhAM1
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 908Please respect copyright.PENANAnFZDm5NDn9
you want."908Please respect copyright.PENANAZxbnb5pLQ4
"It worked for you, didn't it?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAae2vP1BNdi
"What do you mean?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAdcBhTC8I2S
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 908Please respect copyright.PENANAQmfkkigZdU
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 908Please respect copyright.PENANAfcrLmoH7JW
sister."908Please respect copyright.PENANAT3xhrsTTTF
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."908Please respect copyright.PENANALK7tux7QAi
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."908Please respect copyright.PENANA76BEVuI9UF
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."908Please respect copyright.PENANAE22BeC5oiC
"I'm just speaking the truth."908Please respect copyright.PENANAc5NcmshuMZ
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."908Please respect copyright.PENANAnDQBWghfxa
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."908Please respect copyright.PENANATu5A9ApDOH
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."908Please respect copyright.PENANAoPv95OSy8x
"I was protecting my sister."908Please respect copyright.PENANAAKL74BNxNF
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 908Please respect copyright.PENANAyri6RSWOK6
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 908Please respect copyright.PENANAOzi4mNX7mc
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."908Please respect copyright.PENANA4zN8hKIcYF
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 908Please respect copyright.PENANAZxg8cyaIO7
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.908Please respect copyright.PENANAu8BM6zTbop
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 908Please respect copyright.PENANAqEOAJCuZYf
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 908Please respect copyright.PENANAS1MehQZk76
betray you like Carly betrayed me."908Please respect copyright.PENANAhIG9kxZeIk
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 908Please respect copyright.PENANAmIDbig37IM
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 908Please respect copyright.PENANASDww9ATPPV
crystal glass.908Please respect copyright.PENANA96Y0xrl4PR
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 908Please respect copyright.PENANAop2R9vdujU
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 908Please respect copyright.PENANA3GQD1KiOlS
in this situation right now."908Please respect copyright.PENANA6dXYLgixLX
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 908Please respect copyright.PENANA7Oq1l7sMMG
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 908Please respect copyright.PENANA06ITUz5jbZ
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 908Please respect copyright.PENANAc9NeBpqFDx
actions.908Please respect copyright.PENANA4L64P4ADMS
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.908Please respect copyright.PENANAmOquMI0xxH
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 908Please respect copyright.PENANAAaAvWbrp2n
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 908Please respect copyright.PENANAU3dFautzFL
near Carly."908Please respect copyright.PENANA9nI6QpFGp9
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."908Please respect copyright.PENANAzFHdTpY3Gu
"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......"908Please respect copyright.PENANAAT2gR9eDbu
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 908Please respect copyright.PENANA7LCY78v8gU
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting908Please respect copyright.PENANAfYNjuuYy3i
Carly, she would be insulting herself.908Please respect copyright.PENANAseV2DAbpWo
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.908Please respect copyright.PENANA2tWKdFeej9
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"908Please respect copyright.PENANA8fVfOJr7WZ
"That would never happen."908Please respect copyright.PENANARi0fZZZrGT
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."908Please respect copyright.PENANAmrEPYnV7Ex
"A fool in love, yes."908Please respect copyright.PENANAPlPk6toVnw
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."908Please respect copyright.PENANAAqUwiRPHsc
"Why? Because you don't like me?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAHs6a78mhL5
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.908Please respect copyright.PENANApOa7J6CsWl
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 908Please respect copyright.PENANAWn2pxEe9Ew
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 908Please respect copyright.PENANAPxsXeyTFFS
and my accident that she would ever change."908Please respect copyright.PENANAmL84ZW2vUC
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."908Please respect copyright.PENANAx8iGOf814U
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,908Please respect copyright.PENANA9foqdwphM9
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."908Please respect copyright.PENANAJh2jgs115i
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?908Please respect copyright.PENANAW4jhnhtLa9
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.908Please respect copyright.PENANAEIP5ovhq4Q
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"908Please respect copyright.PENANABrf5vJGn3M
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 908Please respect copyright.PENANA82l4Oz6ua9
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 908Please respect copyright.PENANAs7nYwqo5Qa
puzzled.908Please respect copyright.PENANA1JEJeO4cov
***908Please respect copyright.PENANAzPDBOprhOW
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 908Please respect copyright.PENANACGI5wyC4X1
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 908Please respect copyright.PENANA4TIF2rCBiF
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.908Please respect copyright.PENANAbLiLg3JOKD
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."908Please respect copyright.PENANARajAlmOviN
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 908Please respect copyright.PENANA9Bsg6bv1FD
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 908Please respect copyright.PENANA9Eqskb7vGk
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 908Please respect copyright.PENANAlDXWn7s5jI
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 908Please respect copyright.PENANAL4nwFE2V7F
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.908Please respect copyright.PENANAeLRHwSVlWF
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 908Please respect copyright.PENANAcorHauJDgA
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 908Please respect copyright.PENANA99E8S4VPUu
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 908Please respect copyright.PENANARfVCLbjgdl
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 908Please respect copyright.PENANAtUbmNHZmfo
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 908Please respect copyright.PENANARvAVWsaie9
McDonell should be.908Please respect copyright.PENANAXh7hhgfyqJ
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:908Please respect copyright.PENANAVmOl4j8qrC
"Our family has been successfully with the 908Please respect copyright.PENANATAvtcKnDza
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 908Please respect copyright.PENANA7KGAQPVd4X
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 908Please respect copyright.PENANAd8cGpe7qOt
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 908Please respect copyright.PENANAwLuxX6BfjD
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in908Please respect copyright.PENANAnkXzbpexkL
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 908Please respect copyright.PENANA7jnxTmrYTe
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 908Please respect copyright.PENANAF8fkpC0gAt
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 908Please respect copyright.PENANAQpEYryGsBr
especially from my brother. He is so kind."908Please respect copyright.PENANAQCc74Rx40u
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help908Please respect copyright.PENANAfD0M7pgovw
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't908Please respect copyright.PENANAOAO1yztPWG
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 908Please respect copyright.PENANAxpniW4E2nB
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role908Please respect copyright.PENANABd6OcNzKSU
model.908Please respect copyright.PENANA65YcuLFEW1
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 908Please respect copyright.PENANAnVnU5tqThf
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 908Please respect copyright.PENANAz1MpcDctCm
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 908Please respect copyright.PENANA5TZhGdf7nc
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big908Please respect copyright.PENANAZjBBXmFwvg
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 908Please respect copyright.PENANANWw6sfZ7PE
the financial state her family was in.908Please respect copyright.PENANAoVMKqHbgSH
But now that she was with the McDonell 908Please respect copyright.PENANAFdIMBvxQns
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life908Please respect copyright.PENANACbtD607GGN
she has always wanted.908Please respect copyright.PENANAVD7sxp9Il8
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.908Please respect copyright.PENANAd27Drf2jab
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing908Please respect copyright.PENANANRM2Q6wGqx
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 908Please respect copyright.PENANA7STendsmzd
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.908Please respect copyright.PENANAp5PvLsQQtX
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.908Please respect copyright.PENANAxcICSKnlzA
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"908Please respect copyright.PENANAMYnq7atOQZ
"That would be awesome."908Please respect copyright.PENANAktIK6X4sQM
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 908Please respect copyright.PENANAXNxnyZzt74
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 908Please respect copyright.PENANAS3BbTJq6Ys
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.908Please respect copyright.PENANAuJPWJxsJgx
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 908Please respect copyright.PENANA9sDznFpyMv
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 908Please respect copyright.PENANAEKEnE3ieYM
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had908Please respect copyright.PENANAP8sZLDys7c
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 908Please respect copyright.PENANAKZtZK2s9HU
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.908Please respect copyright.PENANAmxTHW89T1g
Miranda.908Please respect copyright.PENANAYOAPduiYsk
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 908Please respect copyright.PENANA2OPhZv1cfK
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 908Please respect copyright.PENANATYP6ZWEAZM
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 908Please respect copyright.PENANAtHq1IRSWXC
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 908Please respect copyright.PENANAlasbFe9sPI
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.908Please respect copyright.PENANAm1FI5dtRt3
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 908Please respect copyright.PENANAyObUM3inx3
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 908Please respect copyright.PENANAvVAgNTTp0s
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 908Please respect copyright.PENANA9EHd8VDGNf
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 908Please respect copyright.PENANApaGPAzH21a
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 908Please respect copyright.PENANAP58TjJFUGi
she never ever discussed her life with them.908Please respect copyright.PENANAuYgApMDGYt
Could it be Miranda?908Please respect copyright.PENANA46v6slj2z8
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She908Please respect copyright.PENANAHNyYt5j9qx
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 908Please respect copyright.PENANASGyFxh4IqB
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 908Please respect copyright.PENANAFtOScuvZ1z
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.908Please respect copyright.PENANAdOD9gPnpGE
And now she was calling Carly after all this908Please respect copyright.PENANABEUxiErCkz
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 908Please respect copyright.PENANAx2yXwjsd26
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't908Please respect copyright.PENANADGBBQ18RLE
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her908Please respect copyright.PENANA6qn8jNlo7G
betrayal.908Please respect copyright.PENANASZVqqRO0xJ
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of908Please respect copyright.PENANAM25HOW3FfH
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 908Please respect copyright.PENANAB16Y6rIDV7
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.908Please respect copyright.PENANATr7BVyFSjs
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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