Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading525Please respect copyright.PENANA3Xzs3rl5rI
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 525Please respect copyright.PENANAcCSO6u77YU
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 525Please respect copyright.PENANAkiwP4OLS8L
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 525Please respect copyright.PENANA1W58C6fPgm
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?525Please respect copyright.PENANAYCs4aGaAXU
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college525Please respect copyright.PENANAuVA30rXEVe
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had525Please respect copyright.PENANAxhEMESAlHn
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 525Please respect copyright.PENANAkNKFXw5NjB
boss a call.525Please respect copyright.PENANAzKvdGmqNwt
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.525Please respect copyright.PENANAM75YIJjogS
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."525Please respect copyright.PENANAa0ha7OlNBU
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."525Please respect copyright.PENANA0a7itouo85
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."525Please respect copyright.PENANAUjZZXDCjn8
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAwovToJi2rz
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 525Please respect copyright.PENANAL0Ig8ZGEhT
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 525Please respect copyright.PENANARSk125nTU6
looked really tired and restless.525Please respect copyright.PENANAuQ2lCSgYb1
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.525Please respect copyright.PENANAYyxdogBPRK
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came525Please respect copyright.PENANAuBiB5VcWDV
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 525Please respect copyright.PENANASTWmYwo7Gm
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 525Please respect copyright.PENANAoY2PsAHUIl
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 525Please respect copyright.PENANAGsoKUR3miF
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 525Please respect copyright.PENANADUZd24C4An
huge loss.525Please respect copyright.PENANA3YtOsQFoox
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 525Please respect copyright.PENANAKeNvWZ1oTR
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 525Please respect copyright.PENANAxWIOSswctY
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."525Please respect copyright.PENANAYuxqbcKQGr
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."525Please respect copyright.PENANAN0OPQgq7qt
"What are you planning to do?"525Please respect copyright.PENANANhmfPACgpG
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."525Please respect copyright.PENANAp5uMEiuJfi
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 525Please respect copyright.PENANA75ak5xR7s2
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 525Please respect copyright.PENANApZNRmgf7cK
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 525Please respect copyright.PENANAOvZKBJJEre
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.525Please respect copyright.PENANAgkZGbL6xCa
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.525Please respect copyright.PENANA4d97sbufO4
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 525Please respect copyright.PENANA8nXEuDijZK
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 525Please respect copyright.PENANA1Vom4R0RjH
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 525Please respect copyright.PENANAIJXzdMwomQ
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 525Please respect copyright.PENANALgu5a4ox1p
vacant space weren't as good as her.525Please respect copyright.PENANAEsBoyBIRoU
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 525Please respect copyright.PENANApfHXrb7mFy
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 525Please respect copyright.PENANA8By5NeLlfF
lucky charm.525Please respect copyright.PENANArFRVkArxSb
And he needed her back real bad.525Please respect copyright.PENANA60nYNw7Qfc
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.525Please respect copyright.PENANAJDisneVAB5
"I have a job for you."525Please respect copyright.PENANAOAOSO30SA8
***525Please respect copyright.PENANAoRiUEQrTAj
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.525Please respect copyright.PENANAjMVuhwgCBw
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 525Please respect copyright.PENANAY7459cwB1D
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 525Please respect copyright.PENANAi0ihhPdz1j
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.525Please respect copyright.PENANAwXP4Ts4Wv4
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.525Please respect copyright.PENANA2z5KMbSUA5
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.525Please respect copyright.PENANAiUN1vC4jQS
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 525Please respect copyright.PENANA7wNzcAImG7
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't525Please respect copyright.PENANALI3VcffEUs
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 525Please respect copyright.PENANAJSFggARUAO
serious.525Please respect copyright.PENANAeqzbPFRSZ6
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.525Please respect copyright.PENANAZoeFAYtGde
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.525Please respect copyright.PENANAquBVod3hcD
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."525Please respect copyright.PENANA5Y7lFbz4Bt
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.525Please respect copyright.PENANApfGfC6PZp6
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."525Please respect copyright.PENANAZF6QOhMZXm
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.525Please respect copyright.PENANAQgutCoHDlK
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're525Please respect copyright.PENANAObPlyQnESc
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 525Please respect copyright.PENANAkKewml6hth
between the two of you considering what happened."525Please respect copyright.PENANAqnRDVEKanm
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.525Please respect copyright.PENANAFUnGrVt0ZV
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."525Please respect copyright.PENANAYtqFLaOOcj
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"525Please respect copyright.PENANArNYRo9QFzz
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."525Please respect copyright.PENANALJDpKuaKyY
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.525Please respect copyright.PENANAAHuJA83Ddh
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."525Please respect copyright.PENANASv3XGbpWUT
"And you never apologised for it," said 525Please respect copyright.PENANAow8NhpxQ4T
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 525Please respect copyright.PENANAxfDwwV3F4G
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 525Please respect copyright.PENANAnifpqrU3JS
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."525Please respect copyright.PENANAW7Yp0HCffF
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 525Please respect copyright.PENANA0PkZcINaYR
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 525Please respect copyright.PENANAa61Lg8H3CU
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 525Please respect copyright.PENANAiymyPNhVeL
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 525Please respect copyright.PENANARejlRl67om
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 525Please respect copyright.PENANAeFlKjGuIcR
for what happened to her.525Please respect copyright.PENANAE6ImRaxWNV
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.525Please respect copyright.PENANAT1NxEg1c3a
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 525Please respect copyright.PENANAva67HUPThg
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 525Please respect copyright.PENANASkM9fCgCyY
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAJkqUmM4oFR
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If525Please respect copyright.PENANAOdeOniWz6I
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 525Please respect copyright.PENANAAK76ERWo0J
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 525Please respect copyright.PENANAy08IYH1p36
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 525Please respect copyright.PENANAYkhp7tfmFj
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 525Please respect copyright.PENANAGAzMaZAZbK
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 525Please respect copyright.PENANAWX1FiopLiS
back at the club.525Please respect copyright.PENANAQku9XkI8Rk
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 525Please respect copyright.PENANAjZ9oCpvoSa
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 525Please respect copyright.PENANA4JiO50hh8l
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 525Please respect copyright.PENANAsj2nYvDHP4
sisters completely.525Please respect copyright.PENANAlRSD2RRqyD
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."525Please respect copyright.PENANAKqBIHZiKHl
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 525Please respect copyright.PENANAnEUukJ8Tp5
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.525Please respect copyright.PENANApHKcmrKViN
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.525Please respect copyright.PENANArJm61dwHyK
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 525Please respect copyright.PENANA3Hrkoa1xmZ
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 525Please respect copyright.PENANAJTFoOVupDo
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 525Please respect copyright.PENANA2aS71LrqQk
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 525Please respect copyright.PENANANogpJ1WTZC
club, not him.525Please respect copyright.PENANAxsRAkmGWqS
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."525Please respect copyright.PENANAPGaBTCSf6Y
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.525Please respect copyright.PENANArDTEdzGTRl
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."525Please respect copyright.PENANAPm5Y5NDRQH
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two525Please respect copyright.PENANAczdpqhGcng
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 525Please respect copyright.PENANAhKxafOoEq5
at each other yet, have you?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAFY4jQSWFvO
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.525Please respect copyright.PENANA14ZUDFBYlK
"No," they answered at the same time.525Please respect copyright.PENANAtsjkT7yK71
"Great. That's good to know."525Please respect copyright.PENANAtvoCDkbYeM
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.525Please respect copyright.PENANAbzbrCUBdGg
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.525Please respect copyright.PENANAcFyZ4DwgiD
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.525Please respect copyright.PENANArKHQhWVEz7
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take525Please respect copyright.PENANAqIt7ZcD2sG
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."525Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4XTnKXWMF
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.525Please respect copyright.PENANAUwk3iN2B2A
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."525Please respect copyright.PENANAUaYHI2B5YN
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"525Please respect copyright.PENANAcYTmnyGHJi
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 525Please respect copyright.PENANA8HTEU6aHhs
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 525Please respect copyright.PENANAjNviWqMJ2r
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't525Please respect copyright.PENANAiTpEVg7fPx
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 525Please respect copyright.PENANA1BdWoYXnCS
long."525Please respect copyright.PENANAbmsLjVOD37
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.525Please respect copyright.PENANA3PrL02AUMS
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.525Please respect copyright.PENANA3M7J9pNC2L
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."525Please respect copyright.PENANAzf8txlKSrH
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.525Please respect copyright.PENANA9BmD4TEh4b
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.525Please respect copyright.PENANANF0KEXfCtf
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.525Please respect copyright.PENANAGEOLVOgDmq
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.525Please respect copyright.PENANA2MHDdzX4lD
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that525Please respect copyright.PENANAEsD5amjrKH
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 525Please respect copyright.PENANAKm1yp7SJ0R
Not like this. Something was wrong.525Please respect copyright.PENANAvhYAVgl8OT
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.525Please respect copyright.PENANADsvobzIQ1R
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 525Please respect copyright.PENANAk9B3Lq9iA6
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that525Please respect copyright.PENANAAouQ9jV8Yy
embarrassed?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAPW5qeyD35X
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 525Please respect copyright.PENANAhSFzeKtsMm
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her525Please respect copyright.PENANAcgrEEApPUe
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.525Please respect copyright.PENANAdNrgtgJmR7
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 525Please respect copyright.PENANAsjorEHtwjC
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 525Please respect copyright.PENANA8xIyDqaodW
today?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAVhC6gmKjYi
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 525Please respect copyright.PENANAZV7qj8Uebs
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 525Please respect copyright.PENANA7yBI5Ovc74
you want."525Please respect copyright.PENANANQBig1UE9T
"It worked for you, didn't it?"525Please respect copyright.PENANA9liXFmJYpW
"What do you mean?"525Please respect copyright.PENANA0MMEyPqOGd
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 525Please respect copyright.PENANA6Ws9ClxpNv
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 525Please respect copyright.PENANAZhCSq1HuRe
sister."525Please respect copyright.PENANAceR24uFNdi
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."525Please respect copyright.PENANAU4wfrqbkk4
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."525Please respect copyright.PENANATsH1OWRZkA
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."525Please respect copyright.PENANAk9yF65s3W9
"I'm just speaking the truth."525Please respect copyright.PENANA09O478mW5M
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."525Please respect copyright.PENANAl6DlKIdwBA
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."525Please respect copyright.PENANAFyvFus2zD7
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."525Please respect copyright.PENANAIfwN4tUTIb
"I was protecting my sister."525Please respect copyright.PENANAd3TYFndo4K
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 525Please respect copyright.PENANAUdWyPkRBXX
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 525Please respect copyright.PENANAD2cEMTQoIH
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."525Please respect copyright.PENANAWqibQv1BD8
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 525Please respect copyright.PENANAYahm2XoRwf
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.525Please respect copyright.PENANAh8H7xsoxgj
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 525Please respect copyright.PENANAjViQu0iOgP
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 525Please respect copyright.PENANAVaRrTCha5O
betray you like Carly betrayed me."525Please respect copyright.PENANA2PhScImsVV
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 525Please respect copyright.PENANA75NeORDoIZ
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 525Please respect copyright.PENANA3dn1M8Paqk
crystal glass.525Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZEKR1T8iS
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 525Please respect copyright.PENANAi1nZpztWtd
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 525Please respect copyright.PENANAskQZ8QVj6t
in this situation right now."525Please respect copyright.PENANAIwU9WApz4E
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 525Please respect copyright.PENANARJXdKzr3CH
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 525Please respect copyright.PENANAxymbSB5IJp
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 525Please respect copyright.PENANAJtZkOqrCV2
actions.525Please respect copyright.PENANAiWNSIzFXSa
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.525Please respect copyright.PENANAq4DDIOUXm3
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 525Please respect copyright.PENANAKXdFMydTU6
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 525Please respect copyright.PENANADylWzABqzH
near Carly."525Please respect copyright.PENANAX3PbaXG7iM
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."525Please respect copyright.PENANArZdAQxvuW1
"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......"525Please respect copyright.PENANAeEMgxiCXwZ
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 525Please respect copyright.PENANAIVWwYNFiNO
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting525Please respect copyright.PENANAuJy00Xd4EN
Carly, she would be insulting herself.525Please respect copyright.PENANAmFJ6Rs0Lxx
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.525Please respect copyright.PENANA30WcMZQsnb
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"525Please respect copyright.PENANApJpj5Sn8Jb
"That would never happen."525Please respect copyright.PENANACySZKaUlqV
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."525Please respect copyright.PENANAJF7BPzMDc0
"A fool in love, yes."525Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1u5KUa3Mx
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."525Please respect copyright.PENANAMUiNDTa1if
"Why? Because you don't like me?"525Please respect copyright.PENANAHFLQdicU0i
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.525Please respect copyright.PENANAVrmrgXmkKs
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 525Please respect copyright.PENANAGwZMtsBMpw
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 525Please respect copyright.PENANAZqbo9a5DMB
and my accident that she would ever change."525Please respect copyright.PENANAA3P6Nd1EM1
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."525Please respect copyright.PENANAYyOkQrmRjh
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,525Please respect copyright.PENANAMOxEBwVAjy
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."525Please respect copyright.PENANAQQCwy3QF5F
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?525Please respect copyright.PENANAUZj0GgSwLl
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.525Please respect copyright.PENANA9hpftjqXRp
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"525Please respect copyright.PENANA9dscUHnMfC
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 525Please respect copyright.PENANAfSZBG6aFXH
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 525Please respect copyright.PENANArewQAMs1Ld
puzzled.525Please respect copyright.PENANAOfZ3ita5zh
***525Please respect copyright.PENANAD1LZCUOsAA
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 525Please respect copyright.PENANAOIVsHunmyt
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 525Please respect copyright.PENANAKeSyb1ixji
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.525Please respect copyright.PENANAGZo7fC0kcY
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."525Please respect copyright.PENANA1cQyW4wPTG
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 525Please respect copyright.PENANAvuDQ754inV
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 525Please respect copyright.PENANA0MWqQ4rocs
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 525Please respect copyright.PENANAVwSQT8BUFp
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 525Please respect copyright.PENANA4XtmUfayFa
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.525Please respect copyright.PENANA5qljibHwyp
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 525Please respect copyright.PENANAMVWbRhDdnN
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 525Please respect copyright.PENANA1jvuWcYxnC
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 525Please respect copyright.PENANAx0MDkkPUpM
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 525Please respect copyright.PENANAhO3NcQHOzJ
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 525Please respect copyright.PENANABj2ZOPDR2C
McDonell should be.525Please respect copyright.PENANAp0KIuUAGQ9
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:525Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZcMw06r4Z
"Our family has been successfully with the 525Please respect copyright.PENANAImpJ917LDh
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 525Please respect copyright.PENANAQw6W8ASqJB
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 525Please respect copyright.PENANAftzd31GX5Z
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 525Please respect copyright.PENANAkYL6B8jxOp
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in525Please respect copyright.PENANAZS8cok48co
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 525Please respect copyright.PENANAyxxUmmSpQS
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 525Please respect copyright.PENANAdJXIih1G2e
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 525Please respect copyright.PENANAnSg7rlKLAW
especially from my brother. He is so kind."525Please respect copyright.PENANAiDBcjVyHyh
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help525Please respect copyright.PENANAKZnnnD0a4T
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't525Please respect copyright.PENANA24fTcYWuKG
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 525Please respect copyright.PENANAcoAUcjNNSg
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role525Please respect copyright.PENANAyeN5dpEMwk
model.525Please respect copyright.PENANAGBadQNBqP5
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 525Please respect copyright.PENANAHb1L6kHgDp
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 525Please respect copyright.PENANAYPOGgJbWMX
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 525Please respect copyright.PENANAo5rXu1vbG1
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big525Please respect copyright.PENANAyokN1lSrmx
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 525Please respect copyright.PENANActqQUZkoqW
the financial state her family was in.525Please respect copyright.PENANAoXjCEfCNQ6
But now that she was with the McDonell 525Please respect copyright.PENANAaFykYaN04T
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life525Please respect copyright.PENANAfnBWX0jjGV
she has always wanted.525Please respect copyright.PENANARB4B20OSYa
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.525Please respect copyright.PENANAiTulIEvWlK
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing525Please respect copyright.PENANAu79CHTFt31
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 525Please respect copyright.PENANAhTje5ugJyI
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.525Please respect copyright.PENANASIM80xBrzu
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.525Please respect copyright.PENANAJmJwsdw3Hx
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"525Please respect copyright.PENANA5Nnar1eB33
"That would be awesome."525Please respect copyright.PENANA82u5CczKlM
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 525Please respect copyright.PENANALItHK96ebV
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 525Please respect copyright.PENANAOdCEEgcbDn
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.525Please respect copyright.PENANA4csbcy2yXf
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 525Please respect copyright.PENANAsMhBxYlC7j
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 525Please respect copyright.PENANAEIg4cwNGX5
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had525Please respect copyright.PENANAvKh6FnldJ1
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 525Please respect copyright.PENANA7rZzBJ9swE
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.525Please respect copyright.PENANA2fXTs6WEFH
Miranda.525Please respect copyright.PENANAlzh6vTYMHd
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 525Please respect copyright.PENANAJnaE8GXref
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 525Please respect copyright.PENANAFk8GXu6xNp
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 525Please respect copyright.PENANApsVXbmyF1D
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 525Please respect copyright.PENANAuLFhH2qrQN
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.525Please respect copyright.PENANAykSTxK9Cfs
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 525Please respect copyright.PENANAUUFD09wEn2
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 525Please respect copyright.PENANAr1mkSSFbRX
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 525Please respect copyright.PENANAyt0jZawhd7
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 525Please respect copyright.PENANA2NZ3NTV9Ls
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 525Please respect copyright.PENANAzmkuHxMh7Q
she never ever discussed her life with them.525Please respect copyright.PENANAvYZTp0AhQ1
Could it be Miranda?525Please respect copyright.PENANAqTTFQQWE1G
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She525Please respect copyright.PENANAwnLWTsCTut
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 525Please respect copyright.PENANA8gJjgwt1t7
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 525Please respect copyright.PENANA6ItUV1UuB6
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.525Please respect copyright.PENANAHBpBsc5HYe
And now she was calling Carly after all this525Please respect copyright.PENANAqURU8mqbcT
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 525Please respect copyright.PENANATVKawC6pmS
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't525Please respect copyright.PENANAcETUh71uSe
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her525Please respect copyright.PENANAC4yv0AT416
betrayal.525Please respect copyright.PENANAikUEEOZxJo
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of525Please respect copyright.PENANAV8ntSpImmS
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 525Please respect copyright.PENANAG897PAIZZE
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.525Please respect copyright.PENANAi6SmNMoG8V
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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