Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading605Please respect copyright.PENANAyPpiORgwkX
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 605Please respect copyright.PENANANHpDHj34Wq
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 605Please respect copyright.PENANA85rWMgPmyc
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 605Please respect copyright.PENANALJwCHW7rh7
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?605Please respect copyright.PENANA7Vu2LFlNOU
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college605Please respect copyright.PENANATBgRDlr7Ey
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had605Please respect copyright.PENANAJlatIx6kwk
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 605Please respect copyright.PENANA6WoM5IeyZW
boss a call.605Please respect copyright.PENANASSsjokHclW
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.605Please respect copyright.PENANAjMRIJvOxEi
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."605Please respect copyright.PENANA1Ni5e7pcEo
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."605Please respect copyright.PENANAKtSmyqnUlM
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."605Please respect copyright.PENANAr00TcxYvvp
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"605Please respect copyright.PENANATt2bWYyi33
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 605Please respect copyright.PENANAY3ZljQjy35
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 605Please respect copyright.PENANAqBLSsWntBv
looked really tired and restless.605Please respect copyright.PENANA3lpHmCVaYf
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.605Please respect copyright.PENANAYn70cSiuVE
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came605Please respect copyright.PENANAIV73gytsRE
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 605Please respect copyright.PENANAUvBPemOod4
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 605Please respect copyright.PENANA3JAmcA0j0r
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 605Please respect copyright.PENANAmdzpMLHjg5
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 605Please respect copyright.PENANAHiy1HWtWl3
huge loss.605Please respect copyright.PENANAIr7Cwnhqi5
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 605Please respect copyright.PENANAwsOrVHHrNN
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 605Please respect copyright.PENANAuMmXJSNEsq
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."605Please respect copyright.PENANA3OzbSqigwq
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."605Please respect copyright.PENANAXmS9THZ74K
"What are you planning to do?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAKwSpbt4ayR
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."605Please respect copyright.PENANAnTyVVcSZg2
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 605Please respect copyright.PENANAmD6PVlar0N
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 605Please respect copyright.PENANAYIpcd8mED3
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 605Please respect copyright.PENANABikvj2q8dM
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.605Please respect copyright.PENANAallS2CRDzG
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.605Please respect copyright.PENANAcZ2il5uhxs
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 605Please respect copyright.PENANAREYCoVYGSu
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 605Please respect copyright.PENANAKNvUZDuPyB
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 605Please respect copyright.PENANAzx2Px1puHe
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 605Please respect copyright.PENANAWSIYSxYOiN
vacant space weren't as good as her.605Please respect copyright.PENANAjKbGfvAcv0
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 605Please respect copyright.PENANADsJLoNyCbi
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 605Please respect copyright.PENANAgdVriVPXyQ
lucky charm.605Please respect copyright.PENANAd1yWDEKDbE
And he needed her back real bad.605Please respect copyright.PENANA7wBKDn2NRM
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.605Please respect copyright.PENANAUUIVL3Nznz
"I have a job for you."605Please respect copyright.PENANAV2Qzg1wsy3
***605Please respect copyright.PENANAhgcUXfSd6h
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.605Please respect copyright.PENANA5MFKv0dO9v
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 605Please respect copyright.PENANAw0Vx2GcyAx
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 605Please respect copyright.PENANA89x0nr58PG
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.605Please respect copyright.PENANAcp8Aq9ef0g
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.605Please respect copyright.PENANAPTjh4syNvA
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.605Please respect copyright.PENANABrTupxLrPk
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 605Please respect copyright.PENANADrkurkQl8A
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't605Please respect copyright.PENANAeqHOtY43JE
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 605Please respect copyright.PENANATKm02iSbaa
serious.605Please respect copyright.PENANAuPrZNagTgp
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.605Please respect copyright.PENANANkxKxaQHiK
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.605Please respect copyright.PENANABOQqUZ3pO8
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."605Please respect copyright.PENANA7DSXk2H15B
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.605Please respect copyright.PENANAMcOpbqR03I
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."605Please respect copyright.PENANA7MaVZZFvhc
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.605Please respect copyright.PENANAdvjOsaHYsZ
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're605Please respect copyright.PENANAqcSY9YdN3U
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 605Please respect copyright.PENANAx45fcoriPb
between the two of you considering what happened."605Please respect copyright.PENANAqHj356TRMk
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.605Please respect copyright.PENANAMeTiN2WaD3
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."605Please respect copyright.PENANAREhqOMEerP
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"605Please respect copyright.PENANA5sRfpqDzLR
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."605Please respect copyright.PENANA2bys6BiLuu
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.605Please respect copyright.PENANAa05FeOB6DP
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."605Please respect copyright.PENANAlaGsgijB8P
"And you never apologised for it," said 605Please respect copyright.PENANAjgLXulvObC
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 605Please respect copyright.PENANARMjaMICxOa
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 605Please respect copyright.PENANA7idskJ7VKM
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."605Please respect copyright.PENANAuYUke4S9eg
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 605Please respect copyright.PENANAnZsCb73xi4
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 605Please respect copyright.PENANA47mgD1FDib
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 605Please respect copyright.PENANA3QfJoLR6bX
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 605Please respect copyright.PENANAC5CNF3PVv7
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 605Please respect copyright.PENANAXMzmREjR78
for what happened to her.605Please respect copyright.PENANAlllO42TgVb
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.605Please respect copyright.PENANAbOyGmzKEfl
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 605Please respect copyright.PENANA007wM10D7T
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 605Please respect copyright.PENANAg5ZnCmkr0u
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"605Please respect copyright.PENANADIpzZM1fxQ
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If605Please respect copyright.PENANALp0xTX5ppz
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 605Please respect copyright.PENANAJyE0mynImI
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 605Please respect copyright.PENANAJ7MSxkHbKj
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 605Please respect copyright.PENANA3d298spAKH
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 605Please respect copyright.PENANA9jdmyyVL9D
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 605Please respect copyright.PENANAW9wcm7Nmvc
back at the club.605Please respect copyright.PENANAIvron0Nyts
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 605Please respect copyright.PENANAbgkztaX0wD
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 605Please respect copyright.PENANAhrbM6X9GLS
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 605Please respect copyright.PENANAbyCu6sMkEd
sisters completely.605Please respect copyright.PENANAjwtAyoBNgr
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."605Please respect copyright.PENANA2mgJRoz2jo
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 605Please respect copyright.PENANAkJCNIlrjEL
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.605Please respect copyright.PENANADfxKBRHzYZ
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.605Please respect copyright.PENANAc9zuqUK2H3
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 605Please respect copyright.PENANAKsPNhEddMZ
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 605Please respect copyright.PENANAoEveKPbgZH
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 605Please respect copyright.PENANAwttotUBaGQ
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 605Please respect copyright.PENANAB70cHqTcnD
club, not him.605Please respect copyright.PENANAPg0oVJqiVK
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."605Please respect copyright.PENANACvgtsUbayM
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.605Please respect copyright.PENANAVJtuoy3Yr4
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."605Please respect copyright.PENANAL4hhWuLZRt
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two605Please respect copyright.PENANAL6HgatYKHA
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 605Please respect copyright.PENANAsZPrhzDBW7
at each other yet, have you?"605Please respect copyright.PENANA0LNPSoEN2p
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.605Please respect copyright.PENANA6494lj7RH3
"No," they answered at the same time.605Please respect copyright.PENANAK0WHyQvdoo
"Great. That's good to know."605Please respect copyright.PENANApZGCXl5KFB
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.605Please respect copyright.PENANAqyydmaS5LN
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.605Please respect copyright.PENANA6K7CFwoBJo
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.605Please respect copyright.PENANAOqdQI3DjQN
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take605Please respect copyright.PENANAY7EtYHgwTW
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."605Please respect copyright.PENANAUPQovQaF8n
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.605Please respect copyright.PENANAlcbWuKLRxX
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."605Please respect copyright.PENANAR21Y8M8fAR
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"605Please respect copyright.PENANAW7teaa5Ixb
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 605Please respect copyright.PENANAzEMb8shucf
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 605Please respect copyright.PENANA9QnawKRX5c
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't605Please respect copyright.PENANAd9zxoPTmV9
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 605Please respect copyright.PENANA613WlOzKUa
long."605Please respect copyright.PENANA3XdbYVXe8i
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.605Please respect copyright.PENANAHdAk2GzAeP
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.605Please respect copyright.PENANAjbF199aUfA
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."605Please respect copyright.PENANAGYKioM4Rcp
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.605Please respect copyright.PENANAkr2h1Ni9pA
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.605Please respect copyright.PENANAAuvr0NqU51
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.605Please respect copyright.PENANAXL98iCCTb4
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.605Please respect copyright.PENANA4xC8I5rXw7
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that605Please respect copyright.PENANAry0MRr5DJJ
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 605Please respect copyright.PENANAi3IxNrXTo4
Not like this. Something was wrong.605Please respect copyright.PENANA3koTQFor9Z
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.605Please respect copyright.PENANA5YhX9GI3Sg
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 605Please respect copyright.PENANA7i1q9vrV1B
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that605Please respect copyright.PENANAxU3OTMD4HO
embarrassed?"605Please respect copyright.PENANA09xffGFAOi
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 605Please respect copyright.PENANA4rTXUTbddJ
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her605Please respect copyright.PENANAFil0f3e4X9
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.605Please respect copyright.PENANAAzNBaJszan
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 605Please respect copyright.PENANApIJofS9kAl
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 605Please respect copyright.PENANA2aFfVaKQOu
today?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAIducw6zdWE
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 605Please respect copyright.PENANAbts67EhcJh
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 605Please respect copyright.PENANAK0PVR0L9D3
you want."605Please respect copyright.PENANAI96yCXV5HL
"It worked for you, didn't it?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAQsajjjP5kE
"What do you mean?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAte4XTt7n8G
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 605Please respect copyright.PENANAKZ2nZaHTCa
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 605Please respect copyright.PENANAYgUJIUdU4N
sister."605Please respect copyright.PENANAWRGrgV83NS
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."605Please respect copyright.PENANAZn6LRKEmse
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."605Please respect copyright.PENANAHgsBgFZY0P
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."605Please respect copyright.PENANAQHIvDC1vEk
"I'm just speaking the truth."605Please respect copyright.PENANATEtJ0brXIs
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."605Please respect copyright.PENANAIJTxg9RlLl
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."605Please respect copyright.PENANAIHBwu0dKnN
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."605Please respect copyright.PENANA5aUQtow1Lg
"I was protecting my sister."605Please respect copyright.PENANAIfBNTkYNad
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 605Please respect copyright.PENANAjJKX0BXM7v
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 605Please respect copyright.PENANAtOaOV6MpRa
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."605Please respect copyright.PENANAbeudaHcHf3
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 605Please respect copyright.PENANAxo51bbYEa4
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.605Please respect copyright.PENANArZRNaH0m1w
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 605Please respect copyright.PENANA4tzZLYwVnI
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 605Please respect copyright.PENANAUngdsCTtXn
betray you like Carly betrayed me."605Please respect copyright.PENANAxCYocTAkM8
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 605Please respect copyright.PENANAGMghpOSieu
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 605Please respect copyright.PENANAZZMT19GGMj
crystal glass.605Please respect copyright.PENANAWR1drBb2vJ
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 605Please respect copyright.PENANAHOuUVGWYWU
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 605Please respect copyright.PENANAtm2ZUmL2pu
in this situation right now."605Please respect copyright.PENANAnolZcew7Up
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 605Please respect copyright.PENANAdDVJ4A9vfs
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 605Please respect copyright.PENANAX4gIfYSLlq
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 605Please respect copyright.PENANAfOL8yEiujy
actions.605Please respect copyright.PENANAPgEuRGqI7e
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.605Please respect copyright.PENANADuyzN3U0yy
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 605Please respect copyright.PENANARyyVuyZLQ7
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 605Please respect copyright.PENANAS15usUltAy
near Carly."605Please respect copyright.PENANAOWGBMY6dvb
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."605Please respect copyright.PENANASAjSwf78bf
"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......"605Please respect copyright.PENANAKfI3rGLXxJ
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 605Please respect copyright.PENANASomsBNc0ME
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting605Please respect copyright.PENANAlZOjeBtxtQ
Carly, she would be insulting herself.605Please respect copyright.PENANArozIM6vJqS
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.605Please respect copyright.PENANA4HzeMMVEpF
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"605Please respect copyright.PENANA4bdum1irFo
"That would never happen."605Please respect copyright.PENANA5VzOmsq2kg
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."605Please respect copyright.PENANA62nbC7lSbZ
"A fool in love, yes."605Please respect copyright.PENANAupPJ769tNJ
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."605Please respect copyright.PENANAYBOML3Pvlx
"Why? Because you don't like me?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAZaC75pMDm1
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.605Please respect copyright.PENANAbJsQ4uwlWR
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 605Please respect copyright.PENANA3aogef9d8g
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 605Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZMePXW2Cs
and my accident that she would ever change."605Please respect copyright.PENANAEEamxldtjU
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."605Please respect copyright.PENANARtEkijCuy6
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,605Please respect copyright.PENANArE86tTzeLM
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."605Please respect copyright.PENANAEvXE7VFkhg
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?605Please respect copyright.PENANAeVt8e0NuGr
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.605Please respect copyright.PENANAhaIcS4uYTS
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAY7FBKohhXr
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 605Please respect copyright.PENANAK8lhPthOTt
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 605Please respect copyright.PENANAgAVfeiLMty
puzzled.605Please respect copyright.PENANANQQRUG7Hcy
***605Please respect copyright.PENANARl22pXbB4M
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 605Please respect copyright.PENANAKrfvVXcIRw
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 605Please respect copyright.PENANA0doKH5ABQX
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.605Please respect copyright.PENANAqjiCw0q8iu
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."605Please respect copyright.PENANASXFywTNrI8
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 605Please respect copyright.PENANA9an8Ux7QEB
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 605Please respect copyright.PENANAbn2SuxQq2D
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 605Please respect copyright.PENANA6RfkqNfXey
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 605Please respect copyright.PENANA5yhazh4ANt
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.605Please respect copyright.PENANA2JIblD3vDG
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 605Please respect copyright.PENANAOb1SRfgdff
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 605Please respect copyright.PENANArm0a8SstJU
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 605Please respect copyright.PENANAs4g2hvWBHI
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 605Please respect copyright.PENANAaXM7KyL8gt
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 605Please respect copyright.PENANA9suBVcruVh
McDonell should be.605Please respect copyright.PENANAG9eEAHVPAM
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:605Please respect copyright.PENANAnwGMEqcsKI
"Our family has been successfully with the 605Please respect copyright.PENANAL432H4x9kZ
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 605Please respect copyright.PENANAx78h0drJup
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 605Please respect copyright.PENANAwZwjPyUuvO
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 605Please respect copyright.PENANAiPY31MukyP
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in605Please respect copyright.PENANAiyGn58ec33
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 605Please respect copyright.PENANAuVK6pRgwxC
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 605Please respect copyright.PENANAs3pofpwEyp
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 605Please respect copyright.PENANA6shbJzawhO
especially from my brother. He is so kind."605Please respect copyright.PENANAl4AG9tpqaa
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help605Please respect copyright.PENANAuoaU8ryQto
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't605Please respect copyright.PENANAdWXMP8UyT3
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 605Please respect copyright.PENANAdNWvmBlxNJ
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role605Please respect copyright.PENANA58qXIyr6qp
model.605Please respect copyright.PENANAgxBqGp9ATg
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 605Please respect copyright.PENANAw83oHuSyY2
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 605Please respect copyright.PENANAWcdaczRYua
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 605Please respect copyright.PENANAsWZpCIEN0t
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big605Please respect copyright.PENANA3kn6ZJmuRf
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 605Please respect copyright.PENANAzKPpATi058
the financial state her family was in.605Please respect copyright.PENANAFYXiKeh81P
But now that she was with the McDonell 605Please respect copyright.PENANAjQ4dXADZt8
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life605Please respect copyright.PENANAHuBvrk74YK
she has always wanted.605Please respect copyright.PENANAmgfE9cI9ZO
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.605Please respect copyright.PENANAGhnqsTKD6n
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing605Please respect copyright.PENANA4h2L0hjWkd
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 605Please respect copyright.PENANAiIpNi7Vx6Q
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.605Please respect copyright.PENANAjoTl3LuaWI
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.605Please respect copyright.PENANAbmNnXII7sO
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"605Please respect copyright.PENANAhnq5Fi7Yiz
"That would be awesome."605Please respect copyright.PENANAqSAyDTSnYl
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 605Please respect copyright.PENANACdmm1d4bDF
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 605Please respect copyright.PENANAy9j6qPzisa
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.605Please respect copyright.PENANAlGW5TQuRs5
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 605Please respect copyright.PENANAEwtsp05FOd
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 605Please respect copyright.PENANAc8azfCP81Q
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had605Please respect copyright.PENANAaZB9odn3Q1
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 605Please respect copyright.PENANA3thFoQp6Us
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.605Please respect copyright.PENANAFPhKYFF68n
Miranda.605Please respect copyright.PENANA5KU1TQEpk1
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 605Please respect copyright.PENANANdDUyHE5K9
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 605Please respect copyright.PENANAyEWvgL2D5J
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 605Please respect copyright.PENANAsTNTqkafbc
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 605Please respect copyright.PENANA8qCFacqI4I
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.605Please respect copyright.PENANACyCMa7qmUb
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 605Please respect copyright.PENANAU6ZuncsGa3
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 605Please respect copyright.PENANAcLo6bO2ZF7
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 605Please respect copyright.PENANAmpqq7H65qQ
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 605Please respect copyright.PENANAXIGgwEAvUL
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 605Please respect copyright.PENANACA2aHttinT
she never ever discussed her life with them.605Please respect copyright.PENANAVClSS7eKQK
Could it be Miranda?605Please respect copyright.PENANAH8q9ZObzpJ
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She605Please respect copyright.PENANAoz99NFeGZE
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 605Please respect copyright.PENANAIkAqpbZMWM
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 605Please respect copyright.PENANAxGx1DE9R8t
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.605Please respect copyright.PENANADRijoDNCIy
And now she was calling Carly after all this605Please respect copyright.PENANAFmOThY8VHo
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 605Please respect copyright.PENANACN6WUfuj8h
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't605Please respect copyright.PENANAAkDt7Qp7Iv
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her605Please respect copyright.PENANAhowvOL6GJN
betrayal.605Please respect copyright.PENANAVyMy2chxG5
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of605Please respect copyright.PENANAmW83ceLScK
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 605Please respect copyright.PENANAgK481a1Wvg
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.605Please respect copyright.PENANAFVckMI6Due
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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