Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading530Please respect copyright.PENANAzBkzcBEryl
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 530Please respect copyright.PENANAxhozlnGVW0
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 530Please respect copyright.PENANAgnl0NFmqzj
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 530Please respect copyright.PENANAmCOS6Da2UP
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?530Please respect copyright.PENANAssuNd6eQvE
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college530Please respect copyright.PENANAtSWVteSW2z
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had530Please respect copyright.PENANAWUWNowfZY7
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 530Please respect copyright.PENANAn4PxLGuI7p
boss a call.530Please respect copyright.PENANA0ORGCtHTxO
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.530Please respect copyright.PENANA304xbx19B9
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."530Please respect copyright.PENANAIZHKfz0LhF
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."530Please respect copyright.PENANAA3dlg2bZaU
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."530Please respect copyright.PENANA4qrvPFrEVe
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"530Please respect copyright.PENANArtQQR0KYOn
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 530Please respect copyright.PENANA0BUOMrDx4V
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 530Please respect copyright.PENANA507L6SjpKH
looked really tired and restless.530Please respect copyright.PENANAj2xLwPIjOu
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.530Please respect copyright.PENANAJJrPvpclc0
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came530Please respect copyright.PENANAySq3GZBzqj
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 530Please respect copyright.PENANAv2MAnnKFe6
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 530Please respect copyright.PENANApi5BczUlp5
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 530Please respect copyright.PENANAzsIedDd8hr
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 530Please respect copyright.PENANAWdcdSwepy7
huge loss.530Please respect copyright.PENANAcGIQiQfRNl
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 530Please respect copyright.PENANAyi8udDur2l
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAeSHZ6upT3
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."530Please respect copyright.PENANAZlwETZgiJd
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."530Please respect copyright.PENANA0ErubVcLIH
"What are you planning to do?"530Please respect copyright.PENANADdkFWR2GbY
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."530Please respect copyright.PENANAsPiQaWTteA
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 530Please respect copyright.PENANARSDcNXZpKT
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 530Please respect copyright.PENANAT4tv1EqClV
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 530Please respect copyright.PENANAGTYwK4AH1A
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.530Please respect copyright.PENANA6DjabBzuTx
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.530Please respect copyright.PENANAFaXZoFXQUb
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 530Please respect copyright.PENANAqPz7j7askk
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 530Please respect copyright.PENANAij4gxrcVyi
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 530Please respect copyright.PENANAeJ2nG7NItY
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 530Please respect copyright.PENANAOGIJdh1cTy
vacant space weren't as good as her.530Please respect copyright.PENANAU1y70DTEtt
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 530Please respect copyright.PENANAqJHR8PE6wR
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAlVD4FTjIw
lucky charm.530Please respect copyright.PENANAwIBJJAVQof
And he needed her back real bad.530Please respect copyright.PENANAcrPOnIvv4s
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.530Please respect copyright.PENANAwfKhuWIns7
"I have a job for you."530Please respect copyright.PENANAtmyNEgvyWV
***530Please respect copyright.PENANAVpQToaTMkx
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.530Please respect copyright.PENANAROdRrQxypm
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 530Please respect copyright.PENANACK4mFOGEji
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 530Please respect copyright.PENANAWLTG0Xbd2P
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.530Please respect copyright.PENANA04uzOXwWoH
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.530Please respect copyright.PENANAYAnieFwcNS
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.530Please respect copyright.PENANAGq6I1Z5YPY
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 530Please respect copyright.PENANAq0UxYUKR02
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't530Please respect copyright.PENANAO3t73l8ZRu
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 530Please respect copyright.PENANAbo2Uwsqkv2
serious.530Please respect copyright.PENANAhqP4RThEaq
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.530Please respect copyright.PENANARif8d3RGf2
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.530Please respect copyright.PENANAQUP3kzSraw
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."530Please respect copyright.PENANAJALd3rgx9C
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.530Please respect copyright.PENANAop4xRe6cfl
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."530Please respect copyright.PENANABJb1mS2NKa
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.530Please respect copyright.PENANAp9BoEnlafq
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're530Please respect copyright.PENANAwM9oHFGNat
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 530Please respect copyright.PENANA4tX1ar0OAX
between the two of you considering what happened."530Please respect copyright.PENANA1DZjdga0tW
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.530Please respect copyright.PENANAzI6CtOlfcB
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."530Please respect copyright.PENANAtUwgS1bayM
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAFFl0WGC7tg
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."530Please respect copyright.PENANAkY5rbou9XY
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.530Please respect copyright.PENANAv4XYHKP1xo
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."530Please respect copyright.PENANAhQJPu95rcs
"And you never apologised for it," said 530Please respect copyright.PENANA9d5gx6SmZ5
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 530Please respect copyright.PENANANmzPqxQw5Q
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 530Please respect copyright.PENANAddfMgpRbXx
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."530Please respect copyright.PENANAhVkNPHFl55
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 530Please respect copyright.PENANA7IOKdFWNqx
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 530Please respect copyright.PENANAoZPkRyryqw
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 530Please respect copyright.PENANAOu1BGq3vTM
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 530Please respect copyright.PENANACYeFMqYLh0
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 530Please respect copyright.PENANAsuQFDO8t8u
for what happened to her.530Please respect copyright.PENANACGYY7ziL35
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.530Please respect copyright.PENANADKY70lHE1f
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 530Please respect copyright.PENANA5aXQTVT0UD
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 530Please respect copyright.PENANAssGtW7O3ex
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAMAVySmcZ13
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If530Please respect copyright.PENANAARb5dRlBBO
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 530Please respect copyright.PENANAloBoysZD9s
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 530Please respect copyright.PENANA2Atk7mxVPY
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 530Please respect copyright.PENANAqiJVIP25CD
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 530Please respect copyright.PENANADtrOIHwmga
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 530Please respect copyright.PENANAi3Pygn9mRK
back at the club.530Please respect copyright.PENANABhO8edmyal
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 530Please respect copyright.PENANAGoHTIZqRG5
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 530Please respect copyright.PENANA64Rkuxp7SS
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 530Please respect copyright.PENANAGsqy2o2wA1
sisters completely.530Please respect copyright.PENANAiZtBtru24K
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."530Please respect copyright.PENANAdy1gZRgaqc
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 530Please respect copyright.PENANAPmjcq4Csk5
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.530Please respect copyright.PENANA678TTjyT7c
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.530Please respect copyright.PENANAZNhbYSqum1
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 530Please respect copyright.PENANAS7Tt6KElSq
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 530Please respect copyright.PENANAXuJ9TDRZNd
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 530Please respect copyright.PENANAnm3uYykqaU
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 530Please respect copyright.PENANAwNOcM8W6nw
club, not him.530Please respect copyright.PENANAwj1kAHjocc
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."530Please respect copyright.PENANAcbfBp5GYBz
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.530Please respect copyright.PENANAqXQQpN4Us2
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."530Please respect copyright.PENANA3paC5RqQVe
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two530Please respect copyright.PENANAgpqFYLMxDo
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 530Please respect copyright.PENANAzvlke3Xrnh
at each other yet, have you?"530Please respect copyright.PENANA35Irgt1kf4
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.530Please respect copyright.PENANA9bdbKKkesC
"No," they answered at the same time.530Please respect copyright.PENANABHPRHt6eiC
"Great. That's good to know."530Please respect copyright.PENANA1Y7bwYiz1w
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.530Please respect copyright.PENANAvTy4c9uD2X
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.530Please respect copyright.PENANA1HcEdldeXd
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.530Please respect copyright.PENANAy9j0cZxcpu
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take530Please respect copyright.PENANAtUpq0G0sNw
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."530Please respect copyright.PENANAtWE72NPLw4
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.530Please respect copyright.PENANANpt5zmAD8L
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."530Please respect copyright.PENANAAA4Y3H1h2T
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"530Please respect copyright.PENANAv9dUvUbcyr
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 530Please respect copyright.PENANAHVKK9XNU0v
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 530Please respect copyright.PENANAeOVm6NB6af
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't530Please respect copyright.PENANAWefDitzC0m
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 530Please respect copyright.PENANA5JinHQzx3N
long."530Please respect copyright.PENANAn1GqYsOoEh
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.530Please respect copyright.PENANAzmOHGN8h4V
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.530Please respect copyright.PENANAHycrt5Vu2U
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."530Please respect copyright.PENANAFOebB1Z4mp
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.530Please respect copyright.PENANA0K81L4ke1Y
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.530Please respect copyright.PENANA0LnKwEIZs5
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.530Please respect copyright.PENANASuwxL4Vni5
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.530Please respect copyright.PENANAHlbsiQoqOD
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that530Please respect copyright.PENANA7oxNKXOpR1
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 530Please respect copyright.PENANAKfCw7ZLcXM
Not like this. Something was wrong.530Please respect copyright.PENANAplg9ynEYDo
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.530Please respect copyright.PENANAUy2vVFIdzK
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 530Please respect copyright.PENANA6wF8hg5RjB
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that530Please respect copyright.PENANAlcKNXyiUPl
embarrassed?"530Please respect copyright.PENANA4BkcLukdc5
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAC5uEVdMiD
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her530Please respect copyright.PENANA7pOaasa8vV
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.530Please respect copyright.PENANA3O6ppUxd0d
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 530Please respect copyright.PENANATX8pUDNyyv
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 530Please respect copyright.PENANAV51dhPEorg
today?"530Please respect copyright.PENANA4le0XdAcdf
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 530Please respect copyright.PENANABfcrXjPpJ7
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 530Please respect copyright.PENANAU9O3jdCeT8
you want."530Please respect copyright.PENANAtCA8mFKDkU
"It worked for you, didn't it?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAXLkRBfeC17
"What do you mean?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAVgzDWbPNX0
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 530Please respect copyright.PENANA4oAvDpMKsY
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 530Please respect copyright.PENANAvAGuVk1IED
sister."530Please respect copyright.PENANAA0bUbnry13
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."530Please respect copyright.PENANAKb0Dt51Ujg
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."530Please respect copyright.PENANATHFD03wNn4
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."530Please respect copyright.PENANA7JPttP1JAm
"I'm just speaking the truth."530Please respect copyright.PENANAlYrvWUsaM8
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."530Please respect copyright.PENANAuFQ25CVdu7
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."530Please respect copyright.PENANAbJr153mZhU
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."530Please respect copyright.PENANAkw03qlkTXr
"I was protecting my sister."530Please respect copyright.PENANA3MAFZKb0jb
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAiFg2Gq9QJ
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 530Please respect copyright.PENANAVJjAzgg3jO
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."530Please respect copyright.PENANABf0Ar8kL8A
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 530Please respect copyright.PENANA5tH2voplZZ
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.530Please respect copyright.PENANAAyPzmA37Zp
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 530Please respect copyright.PENANAIEVd81uAgy
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 530Please respect copyright.PENANA4uln4GUdyx
betray you like Carly betrayed me."530Please respect copyright.PENANAeNCYKx4RbG
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 530Please respect copyright.PENANAUpfEfEmGd0
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 530Please respect copyright.PENANAjv4VNZBc4f
crystal glass.530Please respect copyright.PENANAbCqODjriSE
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 530Please respect copyright.PENANAL7ub0wbHBs
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 530Please respect copyright.PENANAwdrIwaVIjn
in this situation right now."530Please respect copyright.PENANAGn5msKHtTa
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 530Please respect copyright.PENANAt8phiuwh7L
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 530Please respect copyright.PENANAuYtT5F9I4p
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 530Please respect copyright.PENANAaj79vFbYEg
actions.530Please respect copyright.PENANAYrM2DkA6ws
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.530Please respect copyright.PENANAiz57xhEl5U
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 530Please respect copyright.PENANAu5fbvU70qz
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 530Please respect copyright.PENANAMfGY9qe0at
near Carly."530Please respect copyright.PENANAHn4o3bGbpb
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."530Please respect copyright.PENANA1WEvXKZnHY
"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......"530Please respect copyright.PENANAIZeTM6cQJN
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 530Please respect copyright.PENANAWO3cu0aoYZ
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting530Please respect copyright.PENANA8pGF0dQ7mL
Carly, she would be insulting herself.530Please respect copyright.PENANAbwDa9VXdzE
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.530Please respect copyright.PENANAa3MQEo8F8d
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAI3klSOMxLK
"That would never happen."530Please respect copyright.PENANAugNTsL3SSY
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."530Please respect copyright.PENANACgPLBSLtv3
"A fool in love, yes."530Please respect copyright.PENANAsnKKU4JCrD
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."530Please respect copyright.PENANAhQATcRzkFJ
"Why? Because you don't like me?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAz9wbtesCBX
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.530Please respect copyright.PENANAlo2mY3BjG9
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 530Please respect copyright.PENANA7IUo7MYoVj
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 530Please respect copyright.PENANA7yXyk1WJ0s
and my accident that she would ever change."530Please respect copyright.PENANAbqJRvfNdhK
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."530Please respect copyright.PENANAAWDa4s6MXh
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,530Please respect copyright.PENANAou0uJloqE7
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."530Please respect copyright.PENANA33zOKUO9qj
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?530Please respect copyright.PENANAFyB3VGh88V
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.530Please respect copyright.PENANApww979qOdf
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"530Please respect copyright.PENANAXH499yBX6j
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 530Please respect copyright.PENANAsWP8hIXtLN
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 530Please respect copyright.PENANAJaxCcR2qfm
puzzled.530Please respect copyright.PENANAqwUV1anqk8
***530Please respect copyright.PENANAZGN2jzIhyV
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 530Please respect copyright.PENANA78OkbOQjMW
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 530Please respect copyright.PENANAIxlc06xCpD
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.530Please respect copyright.PENANA8Y81wPQ6nF
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."530Please respect copyright.PENANAs6kTEW7n2b
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 530Please respect copyright.PENANASpBQ7kEAWX
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 530Please respect copyright.PENANAaMZef9DxoM
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 530Please respect copyright.PENANAOQwkjGi1dt
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 530Please respect copyright.PENANADQtREzcAec
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.530Please respect copyright.PENANA0Xt21G0AF2
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 530Please respect copyright.PENANA6DpGqmuetk
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 530Please respect copyright.PENANAcUDbnagwEa
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 530Please respect copyright.PENANAN0tZjQDR6H
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAmfwBYzYD0
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 530Please respect copyright.PENANAzIrVV4QRiH
McDonell should be.530Please respect copyright.PENANA8r0yeW8Aqw
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:530Please respect copyright.PENANAYnEY4a5t5h
"Our family has been successfully with the 530Please respect copyright.PENANAGm5WzWjxmi
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 530Please respect copyright.PENANAanLWurB7R4
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 530Please respect copyright.PENANAor790r3CFc
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 530Please respect copyright.PENANAkBX81ykO6f
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in530Please respect copyright.PENANA8o8BnyOeWP
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 530Please respect copyright.PENANAwCS1JSLJ9c
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 530Please respect copyright.PENANAN4bMAJ4Q3M
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 530Please respect copyright.PENANAS7Vl6mw5ax
especially from my brother. He is so kind."530Please respect copyright.PENANAxPrwczgylJ
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help530Please respect copyright.PENANA8JsXh2Lf4W
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't530Please respect copyright.PENANAJYi0OcR7ff
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 530Please respect copyright.PENANA38LQnKoljT
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role530Please respect copyright.PENANA4GuNLbhVy7
model.530Please respect copyright.PENANAJyd5IbM6sp
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 530Please respect copyright.PENANAT057YmpKma
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 530Please respect copyright.PENANA2HyFDoK5fb
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 530Please respect copyright.PENANAh4rkkvITus
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big530Please respect copyright.PENANAOlSsQNlwEM
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 530Please respect copyright.PENANAnv7Ly7gBhe
the financial state her family was in.530Please respect copyright.PENANAGs2gfeC4mR
But now that she was with the McDonell 530Please respect copyright.PENANAAERE6Lzy2B
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life530Please respect copyright.PENANAZiALuDClqH
she has always wanted.530Please respect copyright.PENANAdIrwMjNV6F
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.530Please respect copyright.PENANAgnuXLN7nlY
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing530Please respect copyright.PENANAFgbqgFBIc1
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 530Please respect copyright.PENANAt5cFZjhGnB
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.530Please respect copyright.PENANAuy3qRLAmRN
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.530Please respect copyright.PENANAIDt8tP9pzs
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"530Please respect copyright.PENANANeZCj1uOSc
"That would be awesome."530Please respect copyright.PENANA97wft2eeAt
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 530Please respect copyright.PENANA42FsQZS08y
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 530Please respect copyright.PENANA5RV80dhQFI
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.530Please respect copyright.PENANAwrjmdKrrWB
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 530Please respect copyright.PENANAaXtbrAUtEk
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 530Please respect copyright.PENANAlcDnFqInq6
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had530Please respect copyright.PENANAehS0JoDvM5
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 530Please respect copyright.PENANAPrKnXTjM3W
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.530Please respect copyright.PENANAsHdF0AalTn
Miranda.530Please respect copyright.PENANA9C7myeHoOB
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 530Please respect copyright.PENANASDOS8VqmB2
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 530Please respect copyright.PENANADnO6Fe7IvT
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 530Please respect copyright.PENANAE2ZrxN8Ict
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 530Please respect copyright.PENANAJJbY7Z6IVf
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.530Please respect copyright.PENANA3CClTPFbMj
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 530Please respect copyright.PENANAUKoROLiWpv
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 530Please respect copyright.PENANAwgXySa6MKl
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 530Please respect copyright.PENANALgLyJzA08J
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 530Please respect copyright.PENANApDxVp2W9Hy
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 530Please respect copyright.PENANAKQjNA4Id1e
she never ever discussed her life with them.530Please respect copyright.PENANADX2ydfZreM
Could it be Miranda?530Please respect copyright.PENANAD2YdHENK9O
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She530Please respect copyright.PENANApk5RNzCUWZ
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 530Please respect copyright.PENANAA34m5ieyP7
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 530Please respect copyright.PENANA7wA3xPX0U6
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.530Please respect copyright.PENANA8MTa9KS926
And now she was calling Carly after all this530Please respect copyright.PENANAN4GllhRKGr
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 530Please respect copyright.PENANAaxPKm0pyoo
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't530Please respect copyright.PENANATeM6HE39mE
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her530Please respect copyright.PENANAuLUCHMji1K
betrayal.530Please respect copyright.PENANASTai3yhCfK
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of530Please respect copyright.PENANAmDFegooI0F
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 530Please respect copyright.PENANA5tXuABgzeO
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.530Please respect copyright.PENANAGCdY9RJQTM
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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