Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading543Please respect copyright.PENANAP8YC0MKBTW
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 543Please respect copyright.PENANAwTEyQajopC
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 543Please respect copyright.PENANAzJI9Qp3ohz
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 543Please respect copyright.PENANAh7stQOJnkz
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?543Please respect copyright.PENANACI3Wu2qFen
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college543Please respect copyright.PENANAd3ALdrL3b3
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had543Please respect copyright.PENANA2zrfLrN9Q5
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 543Please respect copyright.PENANAaxkD6F77Cm
boss a call.543Please respect copyright.PENANAEzwGE2mAJH
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.543Please respect copyright.PENANArnniKTzlmm
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."543Please respect copyright.PENANA6S2AYdXWr7
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."543Please respect copyright.PENANAVGWzozhvpF
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."543Please respect copyright.PENANATnbOiqeHMe
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"543Please respect copyright.PENANArdF1sGR6Fl
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 543Please respect copyright.PENANAiUJf3ydPlC
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 543Please respect copyright.PENANAB9745I8ZOx
looked really tired and restless.543Please respect copyright.PENANAjFR4PPeoAe
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.543Please respect copyright.PENANAqwaIkq59dK
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came543Please respect copyright.PENANA351FG7ls5c
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 543Please respect copyright.PENANANm76oKFLcd
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 543Please respect copyright.PENANAzVealKgVBU
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 543Please respect copyright.PENANAZlpEGm15m0
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 543Please respect copyright.PENANATY9ByxCrFO
huge loss.543Please respect copyright.PENANAIBvmVpTNOz
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 543Please respect copyright.PENANAx5z2LU5VD7
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 543Please respect copyright.PENANAxfKyXUhdF7
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."543Please respect copyright.PENANAKwP6eGYect
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."543Please respect copyright.PENANAtCwQGC6eMb
"What are you planning to do?"543Please respect copyright.PENANADVgyooa6Fh
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."543Please respect copyright.PENANAllxDTvYiAo
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 543Please respect copyright.PENANAg1FrOKJigC
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 543Please respect copyright.PENANA9AuBih2ITl
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 543Please respect copyright.PENANAw7nPJEtD6S
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.543Please respect copyright.PENANAHtsovzIJZO
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.543Please respect copyright.PENANAZEEswaksaJ
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 543Please respect copyright.PENANAX6l84Ucfw2
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 543Please respect copyright.PENANAYHMqixcAut
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 543Please respect copyright.PENANAGaDO6ZSRCy
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 543Please respect copyright.PENANA9ngRL2oEaf
vacant space weren't as good as her.543Please respect copyright.PENANAaM7hO1pm1I
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 543Please respect copyright.PENANAXhEGeIvVfr
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 543Please respect copyright.PENANAn2T0GEz6J6
lucky charm.543Please respect copyright.PENANAac78Nnsl0v
And he needed her back real bad.543Please respect copyright.PENANAPF3lKWjhHe
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.543Please respect copyright.PENANArzyKaeqIw1
"I have a job for you."543Please respect copyright.PENANABuuOwtnQ02
***543Please respect copyright.PENANAc7mJ4swFMg
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.543Please respect copyright.PENANAcPRbFQu8hn
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 543Please respect copyright.PENANA1g17pekda7
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 543Please respect copyright.PENANAaPzkHipclQ
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.543Please respect copyright.PENANAcoPcyqxpEZ
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.543Please respect copyright.PENANAL7cE9FrP01
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.543Please respect copyright.PENANAnihTBamIse
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 543Please respect copyright.PENANAPmyThuX5IP
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't543Please respect copyright.PENANAdztQOUYECT
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 543Please respect copyright.PENANAqQwGbtS9cr
serious.543Please respect copyright.PENANAG9MEk32sc5
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.543Please respect copyright.PENANAnl1Av9x6jv
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.543Please respect copyright.PENANAbwXGYDpLyO
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."543Please respect copyright.PENANAYjcJrmzZSn
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.543Please respect copyright.PENANAFpcAgR1Q1C
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."543Please respect copyright.PENANAtrREel8D2v
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.543Please respect copyright.PENANACKMYSuo06d
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're543Please respect copyright.PENANACGGFvwYHNi
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 543Please respect copyright.PENANAmtJc5YavtO
between the two of you considering what happened."543Please respect copyright.PENANAMpI1b50Q3m
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.543Please respect copyright.PENANAj9n07A4C0G
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."543Please respect copyright.PENANA3xL3A0qfpg
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"543Please respect copyright.PENANA6a41VPNi9j
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."543Please respect copyright.PENANA0CFo0geGVv
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.543Please respect copyright.PENANAFHoM9pDD3h
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."543Please respect copyright.PENANADI0bMenzqA
"And you never apologised for it," said 543Please respect copyright.PENANAoUWQE6vcxY
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 543Please respect copyright.PENANADKpZexVANB
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 543Please respect copyright.PENANAUhX4XnFeLy
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."543Please respect copyright.PENANAScX12929HP
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 543Please respect copyright.PENANAHOuH4LQpum
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 543Please respect copyright.PENANAg4NGpRAozV
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 543Please respect copyright.PENANACljAuJmgTk
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 543Please respect copyright.PENANAopUrmQAJfr
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 543Please respect copyright.PENANA8C2SF2nOE6
for what happened to her.543Please respect copyright.PENANARGApefVgCL
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.543Please respect copyright.PENANAZMDhNkOR0l
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 543Please respect copyright.PENANABak8Wdc6Ix
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 543Please respect copyright.PENANAhWk3l3O04b
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAOaKRGOdZcg
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If543Please respect copyright.PENANApvRnfWHply
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 543Please respect copyright.PENANAWTMTqadPOv
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 543Please respect copyright.PENANA2TnEe8fl46
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 543Please respect copyright.PENANAuOyueBba5c
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 543Please respect copyright.PENANA4ido3352Kf
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 543Please respect copyright.PENANAe4YFpmNHjI
back at the club.543Please respect copyright.PENANAceJgILNGAb
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 543Please respect copyright.PENANAoIXxkfqiyu
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 543Please respect copyright.PENANAuWdC8QjZIX
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 543Please respect copyright.PENANAjxWrEFWtUV
sisters completely.543Please respect copyright.PENANARfIO7XhnkQ
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."543Please respect copyright.PENANAmHz1AQ7mwU
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 543Please respect copyright.PENANAX6i7JGsgAU
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.543Please respect copyright.PENANARgk9Yz7EyT
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.543Please respect copyright.PENANAxUWKGH657X
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 543Please respect copyright.PENANAvLBEv6XOKL
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 543Please respect copyright.PENANAreFaD2H75n
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 543Please respect copyright.PENANALRbaO6wTnL
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 543Please respect copyright.PENANAEdl4Ekisqj
club, not him.543Please respect copyright.PENANArloRTylepQ
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."543Please respect copyright.PENANA7dQOs9nUBj
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.543Please respect copyright.PENANA0y1YI9kCYK
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."543Please respect copyright.PENANAkBtp3biYDA
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two543Please respect copyright.PENANAyR0Wo1j3mG
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 543Please respect copyright.PENANAvWROxfnw95
at each other yet, have you?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAYNOEnIEwfi
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.543Please respect copyright.PENANAFIYyhMQj2O
"No," they answered at the same time.543Please respect copyright.PENANAbglFT4cbZD
"Great. That's good to know."543Please respect copyright.PENANAeXm8nOzR7T
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.543Please respect copyright.PENANAEZt0XyniC8
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.543Please respect copyright.PENANAq9ZE9vw31e
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.543Please respect copyright.PENANAeewdzF1jya
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take543Please respect copyright.PENANAuCy0HijWAG
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."543Please respect copyright.PENANAtwnMmhu13W
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.543Please respect copyright.PENANA0wkxp45HXI
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."543Please respect copyright.PENANALW4tTY2xFE
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"543Please respect copyright.PENANAqaMIo7QFpV
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 543Please respect copyright.PENANAPbrWjB1W3J
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 543Please respect copyright.PENANAJQLVFnj4Ae
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't543Please respect copyright.PENANA4ljDP04Syr
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 543Please respect copyright.PENANAhc4Q8YKHRO
long."543Please respect copyright.PENANA3jEusXRmVB
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.543Please respect copyright.PENANABDWgJoA0OR
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.543Please respect copyright.PENANAoXkK9NhDHA
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."543Please respect copyright.PENANAa2mVoIveUP
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.543Please respect copyright.PENANA7UpkRHKi2T
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.543Please respect copyright.PENANAzIDl0st9Hf
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.543Please respect copyright.PENANAmnZWyikkCd
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.543Please respect copyright.PENANAilVjK87pwJ
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that543Please respect copyright.PENANA05PULMwcah
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 543Please respect copyright.PENANAVWDXJhTVub
Not like this. Something was wrong.543Please respect copyright.PENANA4dtQ5RI07B
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.543Please respect copyright.PENANAZXHYxYHjcl
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 543Please respect copyright.PENANAere8XRzhpK
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that543Please respect copyright.PENANADkeKEKDKAz
embarrassed?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAtGNnfu4PnU
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 543Please respect copyright.PENANAl5OpZKN3Y6
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her543Please respect copyright.PENANAwt6Xk1gksq
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.543Please respect copyright.PENANAuQBjL2oInQ
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 543Please respect copyright.PENANAf4r5eL7dib
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 543Please respect copyright.PENANAH2PBamX7rk
today?"543Please respect copyright.PENANApJgaqoVBfD
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 543Please respect copyright.PENANAUvbMyfcPEa
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 543Please respect copyright.PENANAaYq1lGsdQa
you want."543Please respect copyright.PENANAet2TA4GQsV
"It worked for you, didn't it?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAaAfAc6ZGr0
"What do you mean?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAjU6tDfGviV
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 543Please respect copyright.PENANAOQpvJDQUzC
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 543Please respect copyright.PENANAzN4t9zlFJm
sister."543Please respect copyright.PENANAPwRYMgZUgA
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."543Please respect copyright.PENANAhP1iMfRwf7
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."543Please respect copyright.PENANAZXcbIpkvON
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."543Please respect copyright.PENANA9HkntyQyIY
"I'm just speaking the truth."543Please respect copyright.PENANAlymmwmeGvo
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."543Please respect copyright.PENANAsSygHWHyRu
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."543Please respect copyright.PENANAfng3O4dPUH
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."543Please respect copyright.PENANAX36opoAFcB
"I was protecting my sister."543Please respect copyright.PENANAR15JTXSzIP
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 543Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5KMNQEolH
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 543Please respect copyright.PENANAbOQwQTKzaO
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."543Please respect copyright.PENANAvM9VlEZHEc
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 543Please respect copyright.PENANAUwxdAS0wCq
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.543Please respect copyright.PENANAW8IpNiV8O6
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 543Please respect copyright.PENANAYZ3m793zb1
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 543Please respect copyright.PENANA9lUZdbcrk9
betray you like Carly betrayed me."543Please respect copyright.PENANAn8XdOPHa73
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 543Please respect copyright.PENANAyUjPE80ALd
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 543Please respect copyright.PENANAOUB1KKwKsR
crystal glass.543Please respect copyright.PENANA2oANVFoQhO
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 543Please respect copyright.PENANAdCPhQ0XQLW
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 543Please respect copyright.PENANA5IEpG9apUG
in this situation right now."543Please respect copyright.PENANAJwz46xYDNJ
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 543Please respect copyright.PENANAU8Alhddtoe
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 543Please respect copyright.PENANABQCCVdK50e
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 543Please respect copyright.PENANAyroZeuCVJh
actions.543Please respect copyright.PENANAYad7JJdpJQ
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.543Please respect copyright.PENANA2Hli5dXgvT
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 543Please respect copyright.PENANAb9EOyr32rs
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 543Please respect copyright.PENANA3lmvNs16UE
near Carly."543Please respect copyright.PENANAld8HXiirSE
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."543Please respect copyright.PENANAgPI5CFsuno
"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......"543Please respect copyright.PENANA8ShYG7UWWE
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 543Please respect copyright.PENANAUQfjtMJjPI
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting543Please respect copyright.PENANAsCCtxgCvTs
Carly, she would be insulting herself.543Please respect copyright.PENANAeBRy6KOv7h
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.543Please respect copyright.PENANAJLuAlTJRHu
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"543Please respect copyright.PENANA0iHsR9h3Vv
"That would never happen."543Please respect copyright.PENANAHbIhvpAjvl
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."543Please respect copyright.PENANAnislJmAzOM
"A fool in love, yes."543Please respect copyright.PENANAUxILBsI4or
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."543Please respect copyright.PENANA8yEQBHrd3E
"Why? Because you don't like me?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAxCSKqToWZQ
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.543Please respect copyright.PENANAsvsnoVxI71
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 543Please respect copyright.PENANAgRZvhVsl5C
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 543Please respect copyright.PENANADb7ebsAULg
and my accident that she would ever change."543Please respect copyright.PENANANkNa2SMvPF
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."543Please respect copyright.PENANAifl5kv0OuW
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,543Please respect copyright.PENANAznsWOSnkiV
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."543Please respect copyright.PENANAAmILIORbdO
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?543Please respect copyright.PENANAf8vPHdKmaJ
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.543Please respect copyright.PENANAdFxfiMAKIy
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAGT1IVIwcIp
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 543Please respect copyright.PENANAYnFG5x40KS
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 543Please respect copyright.PENANA0JFoQTARKP
puzzled.543Please respect copyright.PENANAaLrOgLI74G
***543Please respect copyright.PENANAwwxDFEzOFN
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 543Please respect copyright.PENANAuIekvYXzOB
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 543Please respect copyright.PENANANMcCJSGdan
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.543Please respect copyright.PENANAJTZ5max8Tw
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."543Please respect copyright.PENANA0slyG6GVMt
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 543Please respect copyright.PENANAbs1IIAoBhH
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 543Please respect copyright.PENANAl0pzG2jjCm
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 543Please respect copyright.PENANA8XvLN9Jxre
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 543Please respect copyright.PENANAPIXDfPjMAL
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.543Please respect copyright.PENANAhN2DHT8SFI
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 543Please respect copyright.PENANABDpWAq2eZM
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 543Please respect copyright.PENANAnKnseH6A8B
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 543Please respect copyright.PENANAxzsE7BQleF
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 543Please respect copyright.PENANA49mhm1YPu1
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 543Please respect copyright.PENANAVBgoWR7xx9
McDonell should be.543Please respect copyright.PENANAjq9ihlgHC9
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:543Please respect copyright.PENANACJ2qFaKZob
"Our family has been successfully with the 543Please respect copyright.PENANAdnrclTmFa6
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 543Please respect copyright.PENANAnL9rWWX5Or
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 543Please respect copyright.PENANA7fuewqXCxt
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 543Please respect copyright.PENANAIMKecaBgfk
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in543Please respect copyright.PENANANK70Eg8AP1
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 543Please respect copyright.PENANATlawMtZN3O
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 543Please respect copyright.PENANA369U4VTKXH
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 543Please respect copyright.PENANAalEuSIWNqU
especially from my brother. He is so kind."543Please respect copyright.PENANAw6j2sn2RPi
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help543Please respect copyright.PENANAhmx7vLc5Xk
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't543Please respect copyright.PENANASaBewb1CK2
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 543Please respect copyright.PENANAPr3wG43qz2
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role543Please respect copyright.PENANAwUOvzCItV9
model.543Please respect copyright.PENANATwXpvgqSg3
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 543Please respect copyright.PENANAVoIPmoGtiw
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 543Please respect copyright.PENANA0iR4wQdY3r
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 543Please respect copyright.PENANAZmt9KB2mAx
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big543Please respect copyright.PENANA3tNT3inwt6
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 543Please respect copyright.PENANAiSZLm23Q3O
the financial state her family was in.543Please respect copyright.PENANATMdw3vTQak
But now that she was with the McDonell 543Please respect copyright.PENANA9mvRapFol0
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life543Please respect copyright.PENANARXrK82UkJm
she has always wanted.543Please respect copyright.PENANA7rtOpUfl2a
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.543Please respect copyright.PENANAskqd3q1MCm
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing543Please respect copyright.PENANAMOF8sBYLgS
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 543Please respect copyright.PENANAKl831v7vs3
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.543Please respect copyright.PENANAyC8TNpVCdB
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.543Please respect copyright.PENANAF7TmRpsBeT
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"543Please respect copyright.PENANAxmROe8jiV4
"That would be awesome."543Please respect copyright.PENANAA0RI85fyiJ
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 543Please respect copyright.PENANARtXKmZzQg9
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 543Please respect copyright.PENANAitRlGswiBG
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.543Please respect copyright.PENANA6u4LhTo6zI
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 543Please respect copyright.PENANAdOruMLhnNx
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 543Please respect copyright.PENANAtAQOtNkIQP
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had543Please respect copyright.PENANArTXrMYLZCK
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 543Please respect copyright.PENANAG0NTLMf0FM
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.543Please respect copyright.PENANABspsPVvttx
Miranda.543Please respect copyright.PENANA8VMtRggXQ2
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 543Please respect copyright.PENANAdz63ejB9vH
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 543Please respect copyright.PENANAKuFEfDaJS2
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 543Please respect copyright.PENANA1wBQEm9c8J
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 543Please respect copyright.PENANALLL0timg5p
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.543Please respect copyright.PENANAU77TXEHXtQ
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 543Please respect copyright.PENANAH3LoNJPoSe
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 543Please respect copyright.PENANAwfkt56pMPg
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 543Please respect copyright.PENANAVOFvZZAQaV
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 543Please respect copyright.PENANAmyA91lHsBg
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 543Please respect copyright.PENANAPrzVP1pOT7
she never ever discussed her life with them.543Please respect copyright.PENANAhdojhCBQAY
Could it be Miranda?543Please respect copyright.PENANAIwRQv6R3lV
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She543Please respect copyright.PENANARacodsVEaq
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 543Please respect copyright.PENANAN87t9U9lyC
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 543Please respect copyright.PENANAYbkqzfv7pJ
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.543Please respect copyright.PENANAmdGiMPi7I9
And now she was calling Carly after all this543Please respect copyright.PENANAjOUogufmxR
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 543Please respect copyright.PENANAJaNSgg0o37
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't543Please respect copyright.PENANAUAv5cAQXJc
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her543Please respect copyright.PENANAip7FIYaPAn
betrayal.543Please respect copyright.PENANAP59MZ0CD4u
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of543Please respect copyright.PENANAxPG3c3zMyK
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 543Please respect copyright.PENANAisJkdrRn1S
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.543Please respect copyright.PENANA2pAwzcmXn3
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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