Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading529Please respect copyright.PENANAG1KjoD4sx6
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 529Please respect copyright.PENANATp767m3EEx
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 529Please respect copyright.PENANAh7FZAkvYvw
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 529Please respect copyright.PENANA4UdfbVU3GP
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?529Please respect copyright.PENANA6Vx8RVvqKt
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college529Please respect copyright.PENANAYcNFl8WIq1
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had529Please respect copyright.PENANAWHIhI06Tr0
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 529Please respect copyright.PENANAUXhjLbqe1b
boss a call.529Please respect copyright.PENANAMasiaHm3O5
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.529Please respect copyright.PENANABs9P72Hk8z
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."529Please respect copyright.PENANAJtumMRTc9f
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."529Please respect copyright.PENANAvPHajjtYYv
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."529Please respect copyright.PENANANmdfUnue3f
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAksAh1J7VHh
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 529Please respect copyright.PENANAJIe1Hw0zdb
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 529Please respect copyright.PENANAKgt75RGOIY
looked really tired and restless.529Please respect copyright.PENANA6pq4m12P4V
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.529Please respect copyright.PENANAKBnFvLMk6O
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came529Please respect copyright.PENANA6QrVMx5tfb
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 529Please respect copyright.PENANAjEHAm98Qjb
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 529Please respect copyright.PENANA39M1RPKiym
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 529Please respect copyright.PENANA5jgboOMdPR
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 529Please respect copyright.PENANAqZWHOTB8x0
huge loss.529Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2I5fDwI3k
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 529Please respect copyright.PENANALFXIO8aWe7
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 529Please respect copyright.PENANAafVqanBcEr
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."529Please respect copyright.PENANA3jQu6XslBI
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."529Please respect copyright.PENANAir21Y19WPw
"What are you planning to do?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAFGAxU4SMRP
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."529Please respect copyright.PENANA2iyJefU6Ta
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 529Please respect copyright.PENANAdM7bQ7a0iR
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 529Please respect copyright.PENANAwYeyPtsaHv
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 529Please respect copyright.PENANA2jqBnx7Vvv
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.529Please respect copyright.PENANAs8KahMPvM0
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.529Please respect copyright.PENANA7otyUAJX6I
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 529Please respect copyright.PENANAqDWuTHO2ZT
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 529Please respect copyright.PENANAEIV6x1d4Si
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 529Please respect copyright.PENANAbkLg5BVSga
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 529Please respect copyright.PENANAP8UM02XmjU
vacant space weren't as good as her.529Please respect copyright.PENANAzQaBjBspU6
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 529Please respect copyright.PENANAbmvSRv1sQq
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 529Please respect copyright.PENANAW91Q6vhKNh
lucky charm.529Please respect copyright.PENANAfrhqYhvgcF
And he needed her back real bad.529Please respect copyright.PENANAhof3w9qtP8
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.529Please respect copyright.PENANAVE4AVi7TkJ
"I have a job for you."529Please respect copyright.PENANAYUGFJfo0r6
***529Please respect copyright.PENANAK231CbHafj
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.529Please respect copyright.PENANAjKaRK9gYmg
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 529Please respect copyright.PENANADF76OQnW2m
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 529Please respect copyright.PENANAzmtZz9t190
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.529Please respect copyright.PENANA2LFHEIeXVZ
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.529Please respect copyright.PENANAVSM0ZZcaRG
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.529Please respect copyright.PENANA0kUt0eUowC
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 529Please respect copyright.PENANA4EzMTK2Fxv
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't529Please respect copyright.PENANAEAPtrORJsZ
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 529Please respect copyright.PENANAQnRbbzPKWg
serious.529Please respect copyright.PENANAqiWrAmlMG2
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.529Please respect copyright.PENANAPoxsvMqlGp
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.529Please respect copyright.PENANAvUoH0gtH7o
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."529Please respect copyright.PENANAcFmuM7lc8k
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.529Please respect copyright.PENANAdFjXwiyJbu
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."529Please respect copyright.PENANAe21YJZwOl0
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.529Please respect copyright.PENANAZON9k9zTsV
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're529Please respect copyright.PENANAKFpq04LaJM
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 529Please respect copyright.PENANAJTkUPEA5Ew
between the two of you considering what happened."529Please respect copyright.PENANA6aPkmjn6oq
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.529Please respect copyright.PENANAMISBUqskjG
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."529Please respect copyright.PENANAytnKNRu3L4
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAqs0EJnUpoK
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."529Please respect copyright.PENANALvLCLezXzk
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.529Please respect copyright.PENANAMIQW4H3dff
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."529Please respect copyright.PENANAIFjFroST7X
"And you never apologised for it," said 529Please respect copyright.PENANAXqkDUI1w6E
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 529Please respect copyright.PENANAV4qOlrbn85
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 529Please respect copyright.PENANANigOxU4ygZ
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."529Please respect copyright.PENANAbF8Fe9y7b3
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 529Please respect copyright.PENANAxDXXg1lBVN
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 529Please respect copyright.PENANAhaHu2uY28R
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 529Please respect copyright.PENANA30BsRjMaNo
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 529Please respect copyright.PENANAcyS7p7FxlP
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 529Please respect copyright.PENANAwgYqmBd4g9
for what happened to her.529Please respect copyright.PENANAzRdVhl5nls
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.529Please respect copyright.PENANAI2gFel4WCY
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 529Please respect copyright.PENANAiEO59A7GfC
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 529Please respect copyright.PENANA1HbZct1mzs
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAWMdxyxC9EZ
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If529Please respect copyright.PENANAnpLs6n2hbz
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 529Please respect copyright.PENANAcp8avZFQl5
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 529Please respect copyright.PENANA75A2J8H0iI
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 529Please respect copyright.PENANAzXoV3X0nBh
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 529Please respect copyright.PENANAubWA42wsMR
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 529Please respect copyright.PENANAIfauvHcv6g
back at the club.529Please respect copyright.PENANAKpAB9uhBqH
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 529Please respect copyright.PENANAnUPi8GRZnD
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 529Please respect copyright.PENANAsvwKzhApXW
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 529Please respect copyright.PENANAPwlFEUo3WU
sisters completely.529Please respect copyright.PENANAxz2Si0exJD
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."529Please respect copyright.PENANAr2uzkKQjtD
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 529Please respect copyright.PENANA7SsH4jCvK3
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.529Please respect copyright.PENANAAR3GVwZyRF
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.529Please respect copyright.PENANA6S1xyyZNEP
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 529Please respect copyright.PENANAGHswEo4u8p
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 529Please respect copyright.PENANANHF4Agh07h
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 529Please respect copyright.PENANAkjYLeKjwVn
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 529Please respect copyright.PENANAVL2wIqpJln
club, not him.529Please respect copyright.PENANAw7tXswhTlJ
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."529Please respect copyright.PENANAWSxh5yavB4
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.529Please respect copyright.PENANAHhy7x5Nt0W
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."529Please respect copyright.PENANAzTP82ZlYDb
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two529Please respect copyright.PENANAhr5zKEqI70
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 529Please respect copyright.PENANAqLuMrF3pIy
at each other yet, have you?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAGjY1iYBQbA
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.529Please respect copyright.PENANAVugTRa5WQZ
"No," they answered at the same time.529Please respect copyright.PENANAMhrlAbmltz
"Great. That's good to know."529Please respect copyright.PENANA3ESf6Lupdr
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.529Please respect copyright.PENANAM4fQ8vjXMM
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.529Please respect copyright.PENANAzLQB1FJ3ow
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.529Please respect copyright.PENANAlAr1SdXEp6
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take529Please respect copyright.PENANAuDKuTx1Pop
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."529Please respect copyright.PENANA0yAdq1zXjg
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.529Please respect copyright.PENANAQcmhcUpY7a
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."529Please respect copyright.PENANARgFyU6E4g0
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"529Please respect copyright.PENANA4IET91XMXb
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 529Please respect copyright.PENANAPmTjIbGCRY
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 529Please respect copyright.PENANAWl3sCsfXDe
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't529Please respect copyright.PENANA1u3ULuT4da
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 529Please respect copyright.PENANATY4ssfGwPh
long."529Please respect copyright.PENANAGtE6WeQUIw
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.529Please respect copyright.PENANA3Nov5vwz1X
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.529Please respect copyright.PENANABhAXY8unk4
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."529Please respect copyright.PENANAmMDRC73ABB
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.529Please respect copyright.PENANAaKpHKb21fM
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.529Please respect copyright.PENANA7b9uhXp7TX
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.529Please respect copyright.PENANAzePHqmk5S1
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.529Please respect copyright.PENANApX05jouOe6
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that529Please respect copyright.PENANAw8IVH5CNnx
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 529Please respect copyright.PENANAEO5VbS7868
Not like this. Something was wrong.529Please respect copyright.PENANAIQDUgTlgy5
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.529Please respect copyright.PENANAvMT6efFlhg
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 529Please respect copyright.PENANAIw5GuyyxJq
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that529Please respect copyright.PENANAZKgGjMxzbH
embarrassed?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAwKFXwskBQz
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 529Please respect copyright.PENANABYTpijMiKZ
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her529Please respect copyright.PENANAjEMhPBo8Pp
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.529Please respect copyright.PENANATYERQEgfPj
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 529Please respect copyright.PENANACzlxTvLy86
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 529Please respect copyright.PENANAq6osKleRKs
today?"529Please respect copyright.PENANABPFisX02N7
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 529Please respect copyright.PENANACklJ5kzv6R
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 529Please respect copyright.PENANA47vXvZTf6g
you want."529Please respect copyright.PENANAXTZA0vbTUI
"It worked for you, didn't it?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAwJlMwhI6yv
"What do you mean?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAYDub4s9zTZ
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 529Please respect copyright.PENANAvmoIwydiKr
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 529Please respect copyright.PENANAbPBNGKhnUR
sister."529Please respect copyright.PENANAmKXFgB2CN7
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."529Please respect copyright.PENANAkyc1ai2JZs
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."529Please respect copyright.PENANAsmEMUrAilE
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."529Please respect copyright.PENANAk3OdCB3O5x
"I'm just speaking the truth."529Please respect copyright.PENANANHZLfPTTP7
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."529Please respect copyright.PENANAn13FwOUIlc
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."529Please respect copyright.PENANACBH9bWykmh
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."529Please respect copyright.PENANAYx4A88x7Mp
"I was protecting my sister."529Please respect copyright.PENANA7bEyl4AmV8
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 529Please respect copyright.PENANAhIOLUQcfSu
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 529Please respect copyright.PENANAij9GMhDObY
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."529Please respect copyright.PENANAknA6zakPH8
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 529Please respect copyright.PENANAhvefutWHSU
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.529Please respect copyright.PENANAwfl5cfeyuH
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 529Please respect copyright.PENANAEDr9blPWQi
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 529Please respect copyright.PENANAkbHEomw54q
betray you like Carly betrayed me."529Please respect copyright.PENANAlzfJT04Cgg
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 529Please respect copyright.PENANAWPetEWVATk
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 529Please respect copyright.PENANAP6euAUQwEO
crystal glass.529Please respect copyright.PENANAUP3NOjtC2Z
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 529Please respect copyright.PENANAC8fYaKfFeH
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 529Please respect copyright.PENANAggAZG8E3nd
in this situation right now."529Please respect copyright.PENANAifGueDzOJz
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 529Please respect copyright.PENANApvswMryeVX
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 529Please respect copyright.PENANAPMtacOMd2H
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 529Please respect copyright.PENANAaqu3Z6X2M9
actions.529Please respect copyright.PENANAR12s3r7gG5
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.529Please respect copyright.PENANARShkSTHRD5
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 529Please respect copyright.PENANA6UMXqBRQZo
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 529Please respect copyright.PENANAA0chjzCt8B
near Carly."529Please respect copyright.PENANAgIyOqqNVEj
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."529Please respect copyright.PENANANSH33g2Lgu
"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......"529Please respect copyright.PENANA1grAcQikfD
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 529Please respect copyright.PENANA8hweeIniua
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting529Please respect copyright.PENANAYhSPXYK7ED
Carly, she would be insulting herself.529Please respect copyright.PENANAG7wz5jNexC
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.529Please respect copyright.PENANAEohXaZDICr
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"529Please respect copyright.PENANA5JF3QaBnFG
"That would never happen."529Please respect copyright.PENANAER4934ZQL0
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."529Please respect copyright.PENANAeX7jY5caOB
"A fool in love, yes."529Please respect copyright.PENANA3xTbeiSrPj
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."529Please respect copyright.PENANAwVFQqVoOUB
"Why? Because you don't like me?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAfFCVeLS5YO
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.529Please respect copyright.PENANAE6AXW1jt16
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 529Please respect copyright.PENANAEZUXHLr0bu
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 529Please respect copyright.PENANABKS05lu94z
and my accident that she would ever change."529Please respect copyright.PENANAnGCt0eWYr1
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."529Please respect copyright.PENANAoY9zG0vnjf
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,529Please respect copyright.PENANAZ6wzC4zQX2
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."529Please respect copyright.PENANANZDJtzlX6V
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?529Please respect copyright.PENANA3kL5zgRz1G
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.529Please respect copyright.PENANAeiv3EAxF4t
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAFrYYPs95t1
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 529Please respect copyright.PENANAUKLs9vUJmj
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 529Please respect copyright.PENANAUl2jfo9Van
puzzled.529Please respect copyright.PENANAMGnFqCS3xe
***529Please respect copyright.PENANAFbVaaHYKVh
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 529Please respect copyright.PENANAEojdmAFCJe
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 529Please respect copyright.PENANALQPqYlzrW0
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.529Please respect copyright.PENANA4v8IbvF7SX
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."529Please respect copyright.PENANAvuVG8Ku4V9
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 529Please respect copyright.PENANASUoDLTdrFP
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 529Please respect copyright.PENANAkZ4NpI2mHo
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 529Please respect copyright.PENANAReulxOSN0b
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 529Please respect copyright.PENANAw60elubmSb
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.529Please respect copyright.PENANAPTXyuBo1oD
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 529Please respect copyright.PENANAUM8OMhbiNu
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 529Please respect copyright.PENANAh7MQYFQymR
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 529Please respect copyright.PENANANFIgmu6F9k
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 529Please respect copyright.PENANApbtzZOB3fb
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 529Please respect copyright.PENANAsnReDSBJLm
McDonell should be.529Please respect copyright.PENANAA5AjIYg9D7
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:529Please respect copyright.PENANAagaDTsFQ8Q
"Our family has been successfully with the 529Please respect copyright.PENANAGGlqya0YDD
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 529Please respect copyright.PENANAUe01GrPILV
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 529Please respect copyright.PENANASOz2nDoOqF
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 529Please respect copyright.PENANAjeAWS9jqlz
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in529Please respect copyright.PENANATyQ12BOFR3
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 529Please respect copyright.PENANAz9dpjdn4sZ
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 529Please respect copyright.PENANAK7H3fsFm4k
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 529Please respect copyright.PENANAlNu8ITVkTj
especially from my brother. He is so kind."529Please respect copyright.PENANAEdPnlpKDZ3
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help529Please respect copyright.PENANABnfHMd2QRv
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't529Please respect copyright.PENANAo4RzXPbWxB
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 529Please respect copyright.PENANAbbwcsl9EhE
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role529Please respect copyright.PENANAB3m3lxkeCj
model.529Please respect copyright.PENANASVsgRo9vJD
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 529Please respect copyright.PENANANUP6crphBN
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 529Please respect copyright.PENANAw15XZ48U7v
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 529Please respect copyright.PENANAr0kXl5CU8r
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big529Please respect copyright.PENANA39Q7GTV4LX
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 529Please respect copyright.PENANAIoYCpVMOfU
the financial state her family was in.529Please respect copyright.PENANAro56250SeE
But now that she was with the McDonell 529Please respect copyright.PENANAl0L7U9w8qB
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life529Please respect copyright.PENANA83bmpmnpEb
she has always wanted.529Please respect copyright.PENANA2TSaAjm66q
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.529Please respect copyright.PENANAJKU7RPUCJs
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing529Please respect copyright.PENANAXndkETT62E
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 529Please respect copyright.PENANA3B69plNcoy
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.529Please respect copyright.PENANAXizLfl4ws4
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.529Please respect copyright.PENANAwhoBohazLF
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"529Please respect copyright.PENANAgp2XC0jgsP
"That would be awesome."529Please respect copyright.PENANAiieFlAS2NS
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 529Please respect copyright.PENANArhmzTIwCXw
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 529Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1y40ILoK4
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.529Please respect copyright.PENANA2Fgmw7OpkW
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 529Please respect copyright.PENANAsQJ8bcY995
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 529Please respect copyright.PENANA7qmkErmE0P
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had529Please respect copyright.PENANAx7nYE8Rhcz
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 529Please respect copyright.PENANA59UHqt3cOq
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.529Please respect copyright.PENANAKwN0U4TPye
Miranda.529Please respect copyright.PENANAFV5CZUHHmC
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 529Please respect copyright.PENANAg4ux05MFHA
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 529Please respect copyright.PENANAZh9neKXScZ
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 529Please respect copyright.PENANA5D0r69ltFc
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 529Please respect copyright.PENANAcUmdFiGZgZ
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.529Please respect copyright.PENANAxCBlfHc3TE
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 529Please respect copyright.PENANA5nOYEYbzSa
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 529Please respect copyright.PENANA8MAp1lqIg4
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 529Please respect copyright.PENANAx24NlJljWM
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 529Please respect copyright.PENANAsStw4QCvNq
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 529Please respect copyright.PENANAe56JsG7miv
she never ever discussed her life with them.529Please respect copyright.PENANACKBukWOS5k
Could it be Miranda?529Please respect copyright.PENANAHFPAiVTOZy
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She529Please respect copyright.PENANA0MbrUKnuvg
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 529Please respect copyright.PENANAbkHXRZdKcK
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 529Please respect copyright.PENANAYovCYlQdEL
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.529Please respect copyright.PENANAPqcvd1YPka
And now she was calling Carly after all this529Please respect copyright.PENANAsXN2AMx1uB
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 529Please respect copyright.PENANASEZAHgBNyX
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't529Please respect copyright.PENANAMwvo0jKKPj
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her529Please respect copyright.PENANAxeKCTTjINI
betrayal.529Please respect copyright.PENANADOvcq5R7a8
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of529Please respect copyright.PENANA9xZB5LdsyL
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 529Please respect copyright.PENANADE2RajeYyA
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.529Please respect copyright.PENANA8HmNJ90No9
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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