Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading545Please respect copyright.PENANAxKafkmcYg7
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 545Please respect copyright.PENANAdwUuq6zGwK
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 545Please respect copyright.PENANA0x1Ubtu6Km
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 545Please respect copyright.PENANAhTLkfDhx5Z
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?545Please respect copyright.PENANA4H9A1TRs6o
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college545Please respect copyright.PENANA1VanrszRQ8
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had545Please respect copyright.PENANAnPN9V4kOnH
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 545Please respect copyright.PENANAioArjvoWRg
boss a call.545Please respect copyright.PENANApo1m5qo8kO
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.545Please respect copyright.PENANAZWhKamwOGg
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."545Please respect copyright.PENANAqM7qQqya4G
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."545Please respect copyright.PENANAPUGHJRwDdC
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."545Please respect copyright.PENANANi6k2uG33G
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAn1OyHKwhhd
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 545Please respect copyright.PENANAqIuBf8Z4XC
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQWOtgkUOVf
looked really tired and restless.545Please respect copyright.PENANALMAeZNQokq
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.545Please respect copyright.PENANArQNCzW3qIP
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came545Please respect copyright.PENANACr3NlQcawT
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 545Please respect copyright.PENANA8SmI6gkjKC
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 545Please respect copyright.PENANAJg8FzozGB9
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 545Please respect copyright.PENANA3sT2i7YsBN
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 545Please respect copyright.PENANANbrI6FLY34
huge loss.545Please respect copyright.PENANAsrT8c6UFUP
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 545Please respect copyright.PENANAzoRHlXMBFZ
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 545Please respect copyright.PENANA9GZElQjRqH
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."545Please respect copyright.PENANAi29htj45WF
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."545Please respect copyright.PENANABlWmJWGDVd
"What are you planning to do?"545Please respect copyright.PENANA5p8ArPbvjT
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."545Please respect copyright.PENANAsydvUeXwjH
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 545Please respect copyright.PENANAMqd9u7C8XS
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQIjCrhlNQp
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 545Please respect copyright.PENANAiN1nLH80Ty
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.545Please respect copyright.PENANAHRw3Se6Iq6
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.545Please respect copyright.PENANAOmBS6Ov63N
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 545Please respect copyright.PENANAhUgX2hfVwn
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 545Please respect copyright.PENANAAltQSCiJMY
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 545Please respect copyright.PENANAOK6ITlKkcb
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 545Please respect copyright.PENANAUP9yVE2YU7
vacant space weren't as good as her.545Please respect copyright.PENANAlInQfoT2fw
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 545Please respect copyright.PENANAJTAHn2KdPb
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 545Please respect copyright.PENANAgJerjjTafV
lucky charm.545Please respect copyright.PENANAZkyYnwffKM
And he needed her back real bad.545Please respect copyright.PENANANFIYi9yq7e
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.545Please respect copyright.PENANA26PCFDIXLS
"I have a job for you."545Please respect copyright.PENANAjTbUgEQsCL
***545Please respect copyright.PENANAezrnaXEZpS
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.545Please respect copyright.PENANAlgOnynG0NT
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQVTrXhoisw
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 545Please respect copyright.PENANA6IsAN6vOEE
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.545Please respect copyright.PENANAFqarqaWXK2
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAADaZ4PLhdY
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAxriG3TjGPo
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 545Please respect copyright.PENANAxhz1dCxC3Y
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't545Please respect copyright.PENANA0mQ2MAUzpw
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 545Please respect copyright.PENANAzynhgtuBR4
serious.545Please respect copyright.PENANAQaXV7FlFYx
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAzo6O7GKqfM
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.545Please respect copyright.PENANA3vrBajQwHA
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."545Please respect copyright.PENANAcRHHI2i8eh
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.545Please respect copyright.PENANAiz5UGL26qy
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."545Please respect copyright.PENANAhzQ5Hq72OO
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.545Please respect copyright.PENANA6ofGjrb2w9
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're545Please respect copyright.PENANAFZQRptuzgR
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 545Please respect copyright.PENANA0jlNQ64vGw
between the two of you considering what happened."545Please respect copyright.PENANAXCMR6APaAm
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.545Please respect copyright.PENANAP6AcKttBPZ
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."545Please respect copyright.PENANAmKLSm3mBCM
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAtdVu4f3EaW
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."545Please respect copyright.PENANAH746srDgEC
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.545Please respect copyright.PENANAy3A2MstQQm
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."545Please respect copyright.PENANA0gKayMb7UV
"And you never apologised for it," said 545Please respect copyright.PENANASANxnr4mfP
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 545Please respect copyright.PENANA75JPZvMCAC
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 545Please respect copyright.PENANAgKJ7kNOQRg
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."545Please respect copyright.PENANA7RKZsH3vVP
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 545Please respect copyright.PENANA9nU87YRUX8
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 545Please respect copyright.PENANAVFvI4mnd73
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 545Please respect copyright.PENANAPE8f3IezQu
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 545Please respect copyright.PENANATKrbgpaoM7
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 545Please respect copyright.PENANAKCQIt9iLpM
for what happened to her.545Please respect copyright.PENANA9UGlJNfQnD
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.545Please respect copyright.PENANAtnRrXHCxyj
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 545Please respect copyright.PENANACkWGvVSFy0
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 545Please respect copyright.PENANA3zg9ghmmJR
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAOEqgNV5Jf7
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If545Please respect copyright.PENANAcMp186JTKg
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 545Please respect copyright.PENANAeZic8MUicO
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 545Please respect copyright.PENANAFdlfjAhsTx
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 545Please respect copyright.PENANALKdV8vh8Oi
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 545Please respect copyright.PENANAxE6l78gkvw
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 545Please respect copyright.PENANAru4hAW5hha
back at the club.545Please respect copyright.PENANAoYTIVp824M
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 545Please respect copyright.PENANABBfvZfb0FG
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 545Please respect copyright.PENANAzV8OQ70Cq7
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 545Please respect copyright.PENANAyp3S8iIit6
sisters completely.545Please respect copyright.PENANAao6ofgq8DI
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."545Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7RlVrfcyE
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 545Please respect copyright.PENANA4SSyHWCmS3
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.545Please respect copyright.PENANAuJnzrHAVYH
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.545Please respect copyright.PENANAyPuHsTnL5c
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 545Please respect copyright.PENANAaofSescpEY
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 545Please respect copyright.PENANAVkbxWI7gno
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 545Please respect copyright.PENANANsJYQVYCCg
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 545Please respect copyright.PENANAPDtecAZa1w
club, not him.545Please respect copyright.PENANAXnFz6tTmEl
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."545Please respect copyright.PENANAqecwMKmDy3
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.545Please respect copyright.PENANAg4JqNiWuVt
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."545Please respect copyright.PENANAP4amojF5y0
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two545Please respect copyright.PENANA7pUrj5emp5
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 545Please respect copyright.PENANAFfCdi3B2ps
at each other yet, have you?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAuwP2FdSN7c
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAhF4p3zqcB9
"No," they answered at the same time.545Please respect copyright.PENANATnDwRDfJ6v
"Great. That's good to know."545Please respect copyright.PENANATKT13M5dlF
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.545Please respect copyright.PENANAjig6OaqvQ4
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.545Please respect copyright.PENANAzclGnzHf1e
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAJpjBegL5K3
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take545Please respect copyright.PENANAwQQe369rOj
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."545Please respect copyright.PENANAd3EJm2Ckqc
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.545Please respect copyright.PENANAmckYwF18sD
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."545Please respect copyright.PENANAHdRuhtpzcs
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"545Please respect copyright.PENANAz5UKl58Uim
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 545Please respect copyright.PENANAjSR7JFOIEx
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 545Please respect copyright.PENANAMQUplV2NiA
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't545Please respect copyright.PENANAMC6YRlNcJM
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 545Please respect copyright.PENANAWwyLkvrulb
long."545Please respect copyright.PENANAoSfUPjYyAw
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.545Please respect copyright.PENANAOMSKNzEbCv
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.545Please respect copyright.PENANAS6Dx8d7cDP
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."545Please respect copyright.PENANAEQ0a7BxUqD
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.545Please respect copyright.PENANA1QWrFUtKQF
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.545Please respect copyright.PENANAWogNh4eWxq
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.545Please respect copyright.PENANAqUf2OXtE4t
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.545Please respect copyright.PENANAcmWSXnjm8H
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that545Please respect copyright.PENANAQduBtcB7bi
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 545Please respect copyright.PENANA346A1wzgIw
Not like this. Something was wrong.545Please respect copyright.PENANAy4u3lOx4I0
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.545Please respect copyright.PENANAaBQY2RRge4
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 545Please respect copyright.PENANAtEmETqxNrI
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that545Please respect copyright.PENANALyFPbFxo68
embarrassed?"545Please respect copyright.PENANABZhn4V5Ybm
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 545Please respect copyright.PENANA2m4WQWmO57
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her545Please respect copyright.PENANAwRjbdiFaAo
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.545Please respect copyright.PENANAvD0EHPxMyG
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 545Please respect copyright.PENANADin86u0WP3
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 545Please respect copyright.PENANAt5PylnHjs4
today?"545Please respect copyright.PENANADt6ABNacYO
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 545Please respect copyright.PENANAeRTu5wiIl2
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 545Please respect copyright.PENANAT2BKEftOIy
you want."545Please respect copyright.PENANAoOi8vCvn6z
"It worked for you, didn't it?"545Please respect copyright.PENANArHUt9pVzSY
"What do you mean?"545Please respect copyright.PENANANflDRqg1m0
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 545Please respect copyright.PENANACi5yrEozi9
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 545Please respect copyright.PENANAFrX7u5zJZW
sister."545Please respect copyright.PENANAVHzb9yG08i
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."545Please respect copyright.PENANATevjsn83XH
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."545Please respect copyright.PENANAqtx9i3s9Oy
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."545Please respect copyright.PENANAY41pEBXxle
"I'm just speaking the truth."545Please respect copyright.PENANAiZrF4CjdSu
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."545Please respect copyright.PENANALKZjOXAEDc
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."545Please respect copyright.PENANAH26q9DHelR
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."545Please respect copyright.PENANAYNl33MBw5b
"I was protecting my sister."545Please respect copyright.PENANAdyxQYpMUKw
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 545Please respect copyright.PENANAv28d6SjOx4
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 545Please respect copyright.PENANA55VR4hLjJs
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."545Please respect copyright.PENANAzfB9He0FJl
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQmc6u902Y4
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.545Please respect copyright.PENANAnk2P6nVv8m
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 545Please respect copyright.PENANAsO20pu3YDs
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 545Please respect copyright.PENANAtNiOZ7tpbF
betray you like Carly betrayed me."545Please respect copyright.PENANANruSflHypA
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 545Please respect copyright.PENANAFI4w9jsCRb
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 545Please respect copyright.PENANAgl3MJnv8Zg
crystal glass.545Please respect copyright.PENANAmKKwShgHRS
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 545Please respect copyright.PENANAMQlaMk6sEP
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 545Please respect copyright.PENANAjeoJPLiR8W
in this situation right now."545Please respect copyright.PENANAdaMOKZtJPm
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQ0cD8zOhVx
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 545Please respect copyright.PENANAXnDirZOFvS
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 545Please respect copyright.PENANAQjYgcwTdTD
actions.545Please respect copyright.PENANAvrYut7XSU6
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.545Please respect copyright.PENANAPmNNGKsTuf
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 545Please respect copyright.PENANAIl8JcMxhSn
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 545Please respect copyright.PENANAW9qo9S8nGH
near Carly."545Please respect copyright.PENANA6dC9BYeny7
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."545Please respect copyright.PENANA1e3WPNSjPL
"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......"545Please respect copyright.PENANAumN3xQKKGx
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 545Please respect copyright.PENANAltZOSoqcoQ
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting545Please respect copyright.PENANATh5spJyh6K
Carly, she would be insulting herself.545Please respect copyright.PENANAaCbQeOChPX
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.545Please respect copyright.PENANAPkDj4iBOWd
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAgn0Vsuftq8
"That would never happen."545Please respect copyright.PENANAV5rLQQBvcH
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."545Please respect copyright.PENANAgrlsHyLTbL
"A fool in love, yes."545Please respect copyright.PENANAVjLtZ647Td
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."545Please respect copyright.PENANAHUk0BuBAkG
"Why? Because you don't like me?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAO3c1mHxLQJ
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.545Please respect copyright.PENANA1lod8mxlXZ
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 545Please respect copyright.PENANAXLwqJseLCW
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 545Please respect copyright.PENANAORdtSxMqlY
and my accident that she would ever change."545Please respect copyright.PENANANDu4JfvSyb
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."545Please respect copyright.PENANABL70TwK9BK
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,545Please respect copyright.PENANAlsvcC5PgDa
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."545Please respect copyright.PENANAEo0WqZdNe7
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?545Please respect copyright.PENANAn3yA43E7Ym
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.545Please respect copyright.PENANAOKulCCq7u0
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAVsuIdtUHkD
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 545Please respect copyright.PENANA9P3oCHgdyp
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 545Please respect copyright.PENANAlScIVqJ1NS
puzzled.545Please respect copyright.PENANAUz66QywFTD
***545Please respect copyright.PENANAsQxrbdwDmA
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 545Please respect copyright.PENANAs6LMQaAsVV
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 545Please respect copyright.PENANAAyGqBOT4nO
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.545Please respect copyright.PENANAhKk53CADF0
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."545Please respect copyright.PENANAtqy4WWxTNm
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 545Please respect copyright.PENANAgMXXwVyivK
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 545Please respect copyright.PENANAkNG6vEthMM
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 545Please respect copyright.PENANAJvmRxzJVul
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 545Please respect copyright.PENANAMmA7VYW6ez
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.545Please respect copyright.PENANAl6xiRvezAp
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 545Please respect copyright.PENANATl5gNTTRFw
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 545Please respect copyright.PENANAuctvweCHW9
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 545Please respect copyright.PENANAXZiBFkeUcv
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 545Please respect copyright.PENANAtPU6wSFbD1
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 545Please respect copyright.PENANAysMlXc8FlU
McDonell should be.545Please respect copyright.PENANAa0kCMqcwIe
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:545Please respect copyright.PENANAhV5yBWgGy7
"Our family has been successfully with the 545Please respect copyright.PENANAEDFzDHRgvO
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 545Please respect copyright.PENANASwKTL9gYFF
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 545Please respect copyright.PENANAduI1xDqKyb
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 545Please respect copyright.PENANARmxpN3r1rp
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in545Please respect copyright.PENANA8YodWQRNOB
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 545Please respect copyright.PENANASlMmDcJPg5
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 545Please respect copyright.PENANANdqEsmYW9o
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 545Please respect copyright.PENANAnDtccOPSpX
especially from my brother. He is so kind."545Please respect copyright.PENANALrYnMyNm23
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help545Please respect copyright.PENANAqVhWzNwnA4
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't545Please respect copyright.PENANAlWAHhTYPMp
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 545Please respect copyright.PENANACDZ6FNEbDu
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role545Please respect copyright.PENANAPOJL8k09bG
model.545Please respect copyright.PENANALZ1qjy7R74
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 545Please respect copyright.PENANAmW6tUZd6eG
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 545Please respect copyright.PENANAtpRrYXEUTk
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 545Please respect copyright.PENANAyo45FlVsl8
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big545Please respect copyright.PENANA6FL565oQZz
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 545Please respect copyright.PENANA1PauxKiJIA
the financial state her family was in.545Please respect copyright.PENANA2kw3n9Ijmr
But now that she was with the McDonell 545Please respect copyright.PENANAmp8v9Q9iyq
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life545Please respect copyright.PENANAGeuxA25qSA
she has always wanted.545Please respect copyright.PENANAEO0OQKOECg
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.545Please respect copyright.PENANAuZxZuLsy95
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing545Please respect copyright.PENANAlntbH3o40a
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 545Please respect copyright.PENANAnrNUQsGDVl
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.545Please respect copyright.PENANAeSQy7cUpHy
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.545Please respect copyright.PENANAWjgRfS6Znc
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"545Please respect copyright.PENANAlgSwy16iTd
"That would be awesome."545Please respect copyright.PENANAmtnh9fJeZg
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 545Please respect copyright.PENANANGHneKsiUK
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 545Please respect copyright.PENANAoqb3YmJvd1
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.545Please respect copyright.PENANANhjTFymQU6
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 545Please respect copyright.PENANA7bWJOfPHVs
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 545Please respect copyright.PENANAFqpPri8eHX
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had545Please respect copyright.PENANAbCClDYaP2T
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 545Please respect copyright.PENANAbIuAa1Piqh
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.545Please respect copyright.PENANAMSaHqACtuN
Miranda.545Please respect copyright.PENANAoyclCmEdTR
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 545Please respect copyright.PENANAxKsKeMF7pj
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 545Please respect copyright.PENANANDQ26Bc51u
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 545Please respect copyright.PENANAvRoFRhgUmJ
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 545Please respect copyright.PENANALlKcWlukSy
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.545Please respect copyright.PENANAaFjJPxLsim
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 545Please respect copyright.PENANAw5RHQ7mObr
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 545Please respect copyright.PENANA4miOTrnG36
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 545Please respect copyright.PENANAkZAsA4DqWT
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 545Please respect copyright.PENANA8YRaBUfx0g
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 545Please respect copyright.PENANAEs0vxLYpWq
she never ever discussed her life with them.545Please respect copyright.PENANAhJAkyK0taM
Could it be Miranda?545Please respect copyright.PENANATYT5a6OoGs
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She545Please respect copyright.PENANA2w7R70cRAC
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 545Please respect copyright.PENANAqpWbnrX68X
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 545Please respect copyright.PENANAIFueeWdvhT
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.545Please respect copyright.PENANABfFySo2SjX
And now she was calling Carly after all this545Please respect copyright.PENANACPWESLG8yi
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 545Please respect copyright.PENANACvFrObEjIU
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't545Please respect copyright.PENANAe0EY36boZb
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her545Please respect copyright.PENANAcmxqIj6nsl
betrayal.545Please respect copyright.PENANAel0wJPbjI8
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of545Please respect copyright.PENANAtCh1gVDZ5D
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 545Please respect copyright.PENANAYKTs9bowO4
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.545Please respect copyright.PENANAcRhPrLRprM
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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