Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading544Please respect copyright.PENANAJ54bK6fvWi
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 544Please respect copyright.PENANAGx2VXF3BuY
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 544Please respect copyright.PENANA7VznF1Eu3S
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 544Please respect copyright.PENANAJVVOab6vgd
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?544Please respect copyright.PENANAlvyFhX862Q
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college544Please respect copyright.PENANAcT6nliHD0J
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had544Please respect copyright.PENANAO5dbQQVMHC
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 544Please respect copyright.PENANADhLrl0UqF7
boss a call.544Please respect copyright.PENANARJV2htXSyM
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.544Please respect copyright.PENANAyfbwdFsXjV
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."544Please respect copyright.PENANAD8L5XMAENF
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."544Please respect copyright.PENANAl3BwCZegzH
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."544Please respect copyright.PENANAfpUZjhbVCl
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"544Please respect copyright.PENANA4hGQyurwaF
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 544Please respect copyright.PENANAuJNV3He3Co
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 544Please respect copyright.PENANAV36u9hXDyh
looked really tired and restless.544Please respect copyright.PENANAFrOU40gxnu
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.544Please respect copyright.PENANAv8SibN7t99
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came544Please respect copyright.PENANAJbVKEyAKg6
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 544Please respect copyright.PENANAbAgXhTLD12
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 544Please respect copyright.PENANAMQlX0lElt5
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 544Please respect copyright.PENANA1qh3wDzHa3
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 544Please respect copyright.PENANA0o3KWsnH0J
huge loss.544Please respect copyright.PENANAMtaiZ6GFv5
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 544Please respect copyright.PENANAGdn5dKg6Lf
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 544Please respect copyright.PENANAEnIKpOPQGX
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."544Please respect copyright.PENANAtrldi5aUTj
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."544Please respect copyright.PENANAXRphg7zxLu
"What are you planning to do?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAiYqwSe9lJ1
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."544Please respect copyright.PENANAb6GxHgR7zh
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 544Please respect copyright.PENANA8T7olRkSod
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 544Please respect copyright.PENANARfSfCZemK3
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 544Please respect copyright.PENANAZqvfFJzN7I
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.544Please respect copyright.PENANAU4JRlxP9ej
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.544Please respect copyright.PENANAyvTbKZput2
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 544Please respect copyright.PENANAEJw323d0ew
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 544Please respect copyright.PENANA8Z3PCWkAe5
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 544Please respect copyright.PENANAjv7qUPpYOx
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 544Please respect copyright.PENANAEBXD5pJqW5
vacant space weren't as good as her.544Please respect copyright.PENANAHzwyUpOTha
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 544Please respect copyright.PENANAHDRERreXoV
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 544Please respect copyright.PENANAVU3dushc1m
lucky charm.544Please respect copyright.PENANA2O2NGhVyJW
And he needed her back real bad.544Please respect copyright.PENANApNy6OdGZNU
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.544Please respect copyright.PENANAHgXbfreFvK
"I have a job for you."544Please respect copyright.PENANAFItlc0SisD
***544Please respect copyright.PENANA4BJjnBG3Rw
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.544Please respect copyright.PENANAMP6H5LJhFY
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 544Please respect copyright.PENANAERKaABduE8
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 544Please respect copyright.PENANAsJFo1fvdhw
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.544Please respect copyright.PENANAwVKVYQE5xa
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.544Please respect copyright.PENANAVeLpG6V0xL
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.544Please respect copyright.PENANAJvP3N45cHT
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 544Please respect copyright.PENANAGMJuOlFNF3
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't544Please respect copyright.PENANANvYPxZw3A0
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 544Please respect copyright.PENANAXvedPNf4fN
serious.544Please respect copyright.PENANAL6dBr9QSEn
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.544Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4UWrI9bMr
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.544Please respect copyright.PENANA0EcIPPkELq
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."544Please respect copyright.PENANA5RCsu07grg
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.544Please respect copyright.PENANAlOuGaP7I8Q
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."544Please respect copyright.PENANAr6TFmuZorb
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.544Please respect copyright.PENANAtGauI6Plbz
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're544Please respect copyright.PENANA6fxODUUACD
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 544Please respect copyright.PENANAuaGxu9sjpx
between the two of you considering what happened."544Please respect copyright.PENANA6XqPdm01Bv
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.544Please respect copyright.PENANA09OAB7xkZN
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."544Please respect copyright.PENANA9dkmlv7IV2
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAajfMCmmAO5
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."544Please respect copyright.PENANAoU4y7C8pnu
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.544Please respect copyright.PENANAXdGyfDkBP7
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."544Please respect copyright.PENANAXLt8735FeL
"And you never apologised for it," said 544Please respect copyright.PENANA6F0mlYnKxI
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 544Please respect copyright.PENANAkiBYIosNZc
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 544Please respect copyright.PENANAW0bNvbGkbR
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."544Please respect copyright.PENANAjFawGCSlOz
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 544Please respect copyright.PENANAgsyTgJt89n
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 544Please respect copyright.PENANArLSyHtnYqe
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 544Please respect copyright.PENANAlWFHoF1ka9
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 544Please respect copyright.PENANA6pg97Mc90M
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 544Please respect copyright.PENANA7WqwNCPOWz
for what happened to her.544Please respect copyright.PENANAdV1oRVInBD
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.544Please respect copyright.PENANA1wRDhebPnM
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 544Please respect copyright.PENANAp0GJBSpEEL
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 544Please respect copyright.PENANAWDqdaPo4pU
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAB4qbJuPMdl
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If544Please respect copyright.PENANAtYGPeiZ1b6
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 544Please respect copyright.PENANAAkZ8eTC71K
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 544Please respect copyright.PENANAfVq5PUl9ck
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 544Please respect copyright.PENANAhJKTwjU3if
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 544Please respect copyright.PENANA1haYKQVsud
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 544Please respect copyright.PENANA9jMw3nHTDO
back at the club.544Please respect copyright.PENANAERD9YvHuHX
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 544Please respect copyright.PENANAtyFboE28RY
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 544Please respect copyright.PENANASk06ECqppN
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 544Please respect copyright.PENANAxCVAeySidV
sisters completely.544Please respect copyright.PENANAupNTyA6Ynq
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."544Please respect copyright.PENANAZIOlFgwaGX
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 544Please respect copyright.PENANAHwYy9qX8e6
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.544Please respect copyright.PENANAd1zagsLK7f
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.544Please respect copyright.PENANAt1aPHOsnsN
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 544Please respect copyright.PENANA6wBAk2gNnS
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 544Please respect copyright.PENANAWlx3xztYN9
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 544Please respect copyright.PENANADIatsBcMJu
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 544Please respect copyright.PENANAX8C9EcEwfm
club, not him.544Please respect copyright.PENANA3muvPQs9hN
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."544Please respect copyright.PENANAvRs4SxKOCA
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.544Please respect copyright.PENANAFoITgjS5cb
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."544Please respect copyright.PENANAM63Q67FRgy
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two544Please respect copyright.PENANA2Ju3QR27cF
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 544Please respect copyright.PENANA1XBUpm9GB7
at each other yet, have you?"544Please respect copyright.PENANA4aKrzdYJWZ
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.544Please respect copyright.PENANAq9Wukgzf03
"No," they answered at the same time.544Please respect copyright.PENANAgqFI9lOj5X
"Great. That's good to know."544Please respect copyright.PENANAa74wQsC1uR
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.544Please respect copyright.PENANAZOh4RSZrG8
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.544Please respect copyright.PENANApBgGBfKkjB
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.544Please respect copyright.PENANA5g3vknkEkz
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take544Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1pvUxkq81
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."544Please respect copyright.PENANABbai0zcxOi
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.544Please respect copyright.PENANAfQQetJUr0i
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."544Please respect copyright.PENANAkxlWMRyQts
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"544Please respect copyright.PENANA757HcPewuo
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 544Please respect copyright.PENANAgXUXXPGIgU
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 544Please respect copyright.PENANAm4bVlkyD16
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't544Please respect copyright.PENANAFPAxqehTpq
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 544Please respect copyright.PENANAj9csYKemQp
long."544Please respect copyright.PENANARQ683GoRX9
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.544Please respect copyright.PENANA1RfskyWyes
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.544Please respect copyright.PENANAhxGvZFhFHr
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."544Please respect copyright.PENANAhr3yzgWMgX
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.544Please respect copyright.PENANAiUhqzWar7k
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.544Please respect copyright.PENANAKN4ZNhctor
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.544Please respect copyright.PENANAy2mKgqx56a
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.544Please respect copyright.PENANAvBAIMNLfXg
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that544Please respect copyright.PENANAdhSqk4ANHX
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 544Please respect copyright.PENANAdrNtpsyia2
Not like this. Something was wrong.544Please respect copyright.PENANAXaqJUrIBPP
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.544Please respect copyright.PENANAPGr0w8ZR9s
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 544Please respect copyright.PENANAVvJIlC6zqu
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that544Please respect copyright.PENANAGl7biRiXLA
embarrassed?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAJwubMh4Uw1
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 544Please respect copyright.PENANApRw0krICGl
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her544Please respect copyright.PENANAh4kaQnoV5N
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.544Please respect copyright.PENANAtwp0ym99Mv
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 544Please respect copyright.PENANATPQz508UYa
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 544Please respect copyright.PENANAoHg8b71Qcj
today?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAfuR1cJ28NV
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 544Please respect copyright.PENANA6HEQmQZ3gV
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 544Please respect copyright.PENANAmZqTUapCZL
you want."544Please respect copyright.PENANAdFHWmRSqr7
"It worked for you, didn't it?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAEx4vWRaPD4
"What do you mean?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAVw4rwYc0g8
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 544Please respect copyright.PENANAeLC5TKysOj
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 544Please respect copyright.PENANARb5ksTpspA
sister."544Please respect copyright.PENANAtg3TjPPSZE
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."544Please respect copyright.PENANAHNGnAndLgp
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."544Please respect copyright.PENANAgLDv3zAIBo
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."544Please respect copyright.PENANAKX5WYXxAX9
"I'm just speaking the truth."544Please respect copyright.PENANATCteGpCOJC
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."544Please respect copyright.PENANA9Mwk7hHKYL
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."544Please respect copyright.PENANALExDDp378z
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."544Please respect copyright.PENANAeQeVwNStJR
"I was protecting my sister."544Please respect copyright.PENANAdl4jdL7F5s
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 544Please respect copyright.PENANA7DiMWmkWE3
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 544Please respect copyright.PENANASaZu4c7mMD
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."544Please respect copyright.PENANA1Svt9ApWTa
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 544Please respect copyright.PENANARxsFej9oiB
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.544Please respect copyright.PENANA9nF8mYPD1X
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 544Please respect copyright.PENANAuJdYyQTFOR
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 544Please respect copyright.PENANAuGMKnU2Qmh
betray you like Carly betrayed me."544Please respect copyright.PENANAjEwFKX0ci7
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 544Please respect copyright.PENANAd94v9eL6v6
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 544Please respect copyright.PENANApGBGArpr8j
crystal glass.544Please respect copyright.PENANAnIsCBpTTsI
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 544Please respect copyright.PENANAs2mUvc5vaG
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 544Please respect copyright.PENANAd3jTrF5xvF
in this situation right now."544Please respect copyright.PENANAM33rVv3JEU
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 544Please respect copyright.PENANAGCnTykZ3Of
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 544Please respect copyright.PENANA3Jk3QaeFH2
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 544Please respect copyright.PENANAMeqK7ogrFP
actions.544Please respect copyright.PENANAPOlnFJnPT3
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.544Please respect copyright.PENANAzI62ZKL2II
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 544Please respect copyright.PENANAZsHWKK2XWR
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 544Please respect copyright.PENANAF4MJCeuzZw
near Carly."544Please respect copyright.PENANA7vNqSE2PKS
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."544Please respect copyright.PENANAKqqKuUkD83
"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......"544Please respect copyright.PENANAWCEirnfZBY
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 544Please respect copyright.PENANAKJjksuZy0v
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting544Please respect copyright.PENANAmiRnDI2CCb
Carly, she would be insulting herself.544Please respect copyright.PENANAhmROIkZcl7
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.544Please respect copyright.PENANAvTkrHHA14b
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"544Please respect copyright.PENANANMOpzAaL61
"That would never happen."544Please respect copyright.PENANAdWsDx8B4ci
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."544Please respect copyright.PENANAzs7g7EGMII
"A fool in love, yes."544Please respect copyright.PENANAFXaL2q6TFG
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."544Please respect copyright.PENANAb762XfxIXa
"Why? Because you don't like me?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAtmbIx1FpfZ
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.544Please respect copyright.PENANALJHW4WaimE
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 544Please respect copyright.PENANAQWtw5yYdJm
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 544Please respect copyright.PENANAo9lk28Um4V
and my accident that she would ever change."544Please respect copyright.PENANAnbg91i95pV
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."544Please respect copyright.PENANA7PijnHQvgw
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,544Please respect copyright.PENANAL7XROfdazl
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."544Please respect copyright.PENANAW8Se0KU6Bn
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?544Please respect copyright.PENANAdWGjrJNaDI
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.544Please respect copyright.PENANAGLO83IKM94
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAtX3V94xWfQ
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 544Please respect copyright.PENANAr0TlcFb14Q
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 544Please respect copyright.PENANA4Hr3W1k6l3
puzzled.544Please respect copyright.PENANA7sLycgOz3R
***544Please respect copyright.PENANA75oSwB52xC
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 544Please respect copyright.PENANALOphLPSCOT
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 544Please respect copyright.PENANAA2p6GzDCff
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.544Please respect copyright.PENANAOcZ5Tma17H
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."544Please respect copyright.PENANAfqjwspEGBn
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 544Please respect copyright.PENANAESLjgvITnu
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 544Please respect copyright.PENANAPg2o5EHCD4
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 544Please respect copyright.PENANAOBXfAp1Fia
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 544Please respect copyright.PENANATBqEU6x9Gy
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.544Please respect copyright.PENANAXpSjeMHFGa
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 544Please respect copyright.PENANAZOt9nfRuRg
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 544Please respect copyright.PENANAKmZuXb3aYe
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 544Please respect copyright.PENANAMJmA669uD0
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 544Please respect copyright.PENANANiijr1nnMM
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 544Please respect copyright.PENANAdVOvxJ8sZL
McDonell should be.544Please respect copyright.PENANAqTPtfYdsJw
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:544Please respect copyright.PENANAZgvHEay4CI
"Our family has been successfully with the 544Please respect copyright.PENANALCHscx7FuZ
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 544Please respect copyright.PENANAOwIWOjMI9N
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 544Please respect copyright.PENANAG9j99ssC3w
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 544Please respect copyright.PENANAld1J8Flu1C
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in544Please respect copyright.PENANAjaSc9bsnAU
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 544Please respect copyright.PENANA8PF2qiOSPC
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 544Please respect copyright.PENANAspnIluvZl0
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 544Please respect copyright.PENANA0elPR8Bkn0
especially from my brother. He is so kind."544Please respect copyright.PENANALCgIfQBQeH
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help544Please respect copyright.PENANAqNvm0Rdx6Z
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't544Please respect copyright.PENANAHCq1UC26K7
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 544Please respect copyright.PENANAKLBYlLMVar
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role544Please respect copyright.PENANAjKob26b9F1
model.544Please respect copyright.PENANAU2GOo3gKQ9
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 544Please respect copyright.PENANAQHTeNn30Mk
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 544Please respect copyright.PENANAXJaJGblsOt
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 544Please respect copyright.PENANAxiATQgiptE
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big544Please respect copyright.PENANA8fxDHr1CNq
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 544Please respect copyright.PENANAC1odci5Tod
the financial state her family was in.544Please respect copyright.PENANArFbZXeFhsS
But now that she was with the McDonell 544Please respect copyright.PENANAxyhmA7iEVt
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life544Please respect copyright.PENANAegwVCqWtIu
she has always wanted.544Please respect copyright.PENANAeLl9meoA1Y
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.544Please respect copyright.PENANAEIurxGafKU
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing544Please respect copyright.PENANA9vAisWYyt2
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 544Please respect copyright.PENANAORwSaWmTIr
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.544Please respect copyright.PENANAdtxsqehHbj
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.544Please respect copyright.PENANAN1rpUI5Y3Z
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"544Please respect copyright.PENANAKVy6pslQk1
"That would be awesome."544Please respect copyright.PENANAeHULvu8dpx
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 544Please respect copyright.PENANAs3KFpK9Bc7
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 544Please respect copyright.PENANAVt229est9s
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.544Please respect copyright.PENANAL5hq3DXxIS
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 544Please respect copyright.PENANAvxFmXqpNnj
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 544Please respect copyright.PENANAoxjyuOcjkm
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had544Please respect copyright.PENANA7jMVKvt09d
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 544Please respect copyright.PENANALbRrVWq4rK
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.544Please respect copyright.PENANAiiLmGm8nfT
Miranda.544Please respect copyright.PENANAZOKqsHO0fd
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 544Please respect copyright.PENANAyavbWvUziF
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 544Please respect copyright.PENANAg9r6qHvtJP
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 544Please respect copyright.PENANAPd9DvrfhCn
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 544Please respect copyright.PENANAhAQ1Hq7TZi
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.544Please respect copyright.PENANAhlyEaHNAVl
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 544Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZRFYMjJ36
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 544Please respect copyright.PENANAppck1pKzv6
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 544Please respect copyright.PENANAtdvm4lFDIO
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 544Please respect copyright.PENANARWm9LiIeVF
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 544Please respect copyright.PENANA1HL5qb7QDa
she never ever discussed her life with them.544Please respect copyright.PENANApGgi5zeqWj
Could it be Miranda?544Please respect copyright.PENANAygy55dyrdz
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She544Please respect copyright.PENANAIHwSx39P3o
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 544Please respect copyright.PENANAK39X9Hn8Ll
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 544Please respect copyright.PENANA1FJDyYxoHg
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.544Please respect copyright.PENANADa4EQcvdLk
And now she was calling Carly after all this544Please respect copyright.PENANAblK5ksuEYH
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 544Please respect copyright.PENANAKeRsB6IWRU
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't544Please respect copyright.PENANAc8DcFfio7L
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her544Please respect copyright.PENANAw4DQO73SH2
betrayal.544Please respect copyright.PENANAuKYArHEPFW
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of544Please respect copyright.PENANAnlSFgSVE0Z
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 544Please respect copyright.PENANAz1To75XXuA
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.544Please respect copyright.PENANAHAA8AFgCLY
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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