Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading528Please respect copyright.PENANApJPgbVziJE
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 528Please respect copyright.PENANA82FXQtdiy4
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 528Please respect copyright.PENANAT7oopnJpUO
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 528Please respect copyright.PENANAPQRiQq5lnV
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?528Please respect copyright.PENANAC5cKyMjbgH
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college528Please respect copyright.PENANAcTIE5XQxku
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had528Please respect copyright.PENANAaRRoqSwXP5
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 528Please respect copyright.PENANAg6Zg5AeyMK
boss a call.528Please respect copyright.PENANAGCG6htFnOs
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.528Please respect copyright.PENANAuNSOk8Dwyg
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."528Please respect copyright.PENANAFQ6mqyQWw3
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."528Please respect copyright.PENANAF72CpgE3wF
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."528Please respect copyright.PENANAdU3ZnQ0HyB
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"528Please respect copyright.PENANApuOwu5Tcsz
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 528Please respect copyright.PENANAPpIQHzlu5O
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 528Please respect copyright.PENANAKeCL3lm30Y
looked really tired and restless.528Please respect copyright.PENANApTexbW2fb8
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.528Please respect copyright.PENANAB3NW4gIFjT
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came528Please respect copyright.PENANAHNvQEjERRY
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 528Please respect copyright.PENANAS7nR8igAkq
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 528Please respect copyright.PENANAJHR1cZgc3p
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 528Please respect copyright.PENANA4OS6gnc4x5
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 528Please respect copyright.PENANAfSz2eZTo0n
huge loss.528Please respect copyright.PENANAuzsg6EI4JF
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 528Please respect copyright.PENANAeGIO4brBZ6
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 528Please respect copyright.PENANA61lYF0VaX5
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."528Please respect copyright.PENANAjTIiLE0bAX
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."528Please respect copyright.PENANAanFR53iFbZ
"What are you planning to do?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAcjui1j65IW
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."528Please respect copyright.PENANAbOzovqXAfO
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 528Please respect copyright.PENANA1qBRsksV9R
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 528Please respect copyright.PENANAbjIiYHD7jz
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 528Please respect copyright.PENANATVCVEaqlGg
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.528Please respect copyright.PENANAxPtZZNvN8c
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.528Please respect copyright.PENANAKD0oLiBgwc
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 528Please respect copyright.PENANAp3F8sfruNY
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 528Please respect copyright.PENANAgzoQiPBwOV
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 528Please respect copyright.PENANA8setC0l16Q
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 528Please respect copyright.PENANANZr0bFWmpk
vacant space weren't as good as her.528Please respect copyright.PENANAxObGsXNhXo
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 528Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0Fsuv3HLz
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 528Please respect copyright.PENANASP0pEvc7D5
lucky charm.528Please respect copyright.PENANAWeVhNo5k9M
And he needed her back real bad.528Please respect copyright.PENANAVcKCRBLXkw
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.528Please respect copyright.PENANAcim4sIn0lH
"I have a job for you."528Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZMMVEDTCk
***528Please respect copyright.PENANAndZMVaMdzG
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.528Please respect copyright.PENANAa8QsZ0ojJJ
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 528Please respect copyright.PENANAB2HGH0732W
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 528Please respect copyright.PENANAM2pyZivw5E
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.528Please respect copyright.PENANAlzmHm0304Q
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.528Please respect copyright.PENANAY6BL3OhyZ4
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.528Please respect copyright.PENANATHwXOJrVTw
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 528Please respect copyright.PENANACPkjP7Lo3s
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't528Please respect copyright.PENANACjoOQYZQU6
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 528Please respect copyright.PENANANoANoQQkPK
serious.528Please respect copyright.PENANAkLe6kcnuFb
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.528Please respect copyright.PENANAZLKYrkIEwS
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.528Please respect copyright.PENANARHrkwaJLVL
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."528Please respect copyright.PENANA2aX06goS5Z
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.528Please respect copyright.PENANApDo0wYjDpe
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."528Please respect copyright.PENANAWB20h95JmQ
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.528Please respect copyright.PENANAZEkGQMgvDX
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're528Please respect copyright.PENANA9rBNaCqIdA
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 528Please respect copyright.PENANAoytqdVBZwI
between the two of you considering what happened."528Please respect copyright.PENANAvoJA3CH5zZ
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.528Please respect copyright.PENANAWZWch87sJG
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."528Please respect copyright.PENANAWJOnIMys5e
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAFGfwwddB3p
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."528Please respect copyright.PENANAlPHNLc5i9c
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.528Please respect copyright.PENANA1Sxa0IFtRG
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."528Please respect copyright.PENANAkSMgKGitVC
"And you never apologised for it," said 528Please respect copyright.PENANAm2IfIoe22T
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 528Please respect copyright.PENANAgrAuaCjd0B
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 528Please respect copyright.PENANAcLxY5QzHOS
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."528Please respect copyright.PENANAAk9CKuC7sz
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 528Please respect copyright.PENANASDwYJScES0
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 528Please respect copyright.PENANAi8LaJZYPJj
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 528Please respect copyright.PENANAPXdqW7fI4N
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 528Please respect copyright.PENANA9pd2iJlX3T
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 528Please respect copyright.PENANAxBZoZmIier
for what happened to her.528Please respect copyright.PENANAdT8bb7muuS
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.528Please respect copyright.PENANAVy1UWKzi1d
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 528Please respect copyright.PENANAtgsUKf4CnF
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 528Please respect copyright.PENANAsUoCbKQ1pf
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAOJM4lgHwMQ
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If528Please respect copyright.PENANA1d3Sj7h18h
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 528Please respect copyright.PENANAopd4f7PHEH
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 528Please respect copyright.PENANAGzk42htZFr
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 528Please respect copyright.PENANA5zkCBXpBwa
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 528Please respect copyright.PENANAysz4IJbwvu
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 528Please respect copyright.PENANAS2ehhbKU8g
back at the club.528Please respect copyright.PENANAGJ5P964YZt
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 528Please respect copyright.PENANAqTsHw3lOcn
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 528Please respect copyright.PENANA8LtivBjGgn
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 528Please respect copyright.PENANA0U6oJpIMHH
sisters completely.528Please respect copyright.PENANAar7Xpb51FY
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."528Please respect copyright.PENANAiczFKgywbW
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 528Please respect copyright.PENANAS0kaLSAUYm
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.528Please respect copyright.PENANAml6WYmZj88
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.528Please respect copyright.PENANAERt0BJ5oW0
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 528Please respect copyright.PENANAE5ZYY24aut
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 528Please respect copyright.PENANAekoCWiVaFv
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 528Please respect copyright.PENANAIU8OX41ouM
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 528Please respect copyright.PENANACCY8uJSgY2
club, not him.528Please respect copyright.PENANAMj57z771Cw
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."528Please respect copyright.PENANADlJNRUt0t1
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.528Please respect copyright.PENANAwZag4JxfEu
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."528Please respect copyright.PENANAE6sLTO5cF0
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two528Please respect copyright.PENANA2DjtXOUQJt
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 528Please respect copyright.PENANANhJfMVMY1T
at each other yet, have you?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAGhVQ2lzsY7
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.528Please respect copyright.PENANA80e1nMra8c
"No," they answered at the same time.528Please respect copyright.PENANA26vXLs0rQ0
"Great. That's good to know."528Please respect copyright.PENANAvorE4KtCfV
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.528Please respect copyright.PENANAnHWyje7YCG
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.528Please respect copyright.PENANAZKnalBrsUS
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.528Please respect copyright.PENANAYWyqhcVaq3
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take528Please respect copyright.PENANADlQsA8FEcm
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."528Please respect copyright.PENANAzuIKBmlMmV
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.528Please respect copyright.PENANAaplYXO7Xc7
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."528Please respect copyright.PENANAuKafFR8shy
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"528Please respect copyright.PENANAoK645ElOZX
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 528Please respect copyright.PENANAzl4dSdVI8d
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 528Please respect copyright.PENANA4OKFWQ28zn
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't528Please respect copyright.PENANArFHHeBcAoY
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 528Please respect copyright.PENANAtkftBJtbWv
long."528Please respect copyright.PENANA7EWH0UpUpi
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.528Please respect copyright.PENANA1PQGbEcg0k
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.528Please respect copyright.PENANAmYYhTBbIZa
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."528Please respect copyright.PENANAKOY5Z4BDil
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.528Please respect copyright.PENANA6ezpLxoACk
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.528Please respect copyright.PENANAYR2dc7SA4K
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.528Please respect copyright.PENANALKxj2nx07n
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.528Please respect copyright.PENANAblMaPxEuav
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that528Please respect copyright.PENANAzvxDbikRon
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 528Please respect copyright.PENANAE97fJCW3Gq
Not like this. Something was wrong.528Please respect copyright.PENANAGY2QcPv6J8
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.528Please respect copyright.PENANAJoSk1GT6OZ
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 528Please respect copyright.PENANAVSn57OOsPe
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that528Please respect copyright.PENANAiajg3gKJC1
embarrassed?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAbKRNkv81fG
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 528Please respect copyright.PENANAHVctm9t4Dp
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her528Please respect copyright.PENANA8LKNDxlNh8
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.528Please respect copyright.PENANA1pEuMEfzPT
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 528Please respect copyright.PENANA9x1XzR6Kny
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 528Please respect copyright.PENANA9lu6Lr74K1
today?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAD5jnzwlGdI
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 528Please respect copyright.PENANA4wVtl18BZ9
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 528Please respect copyright.PENANAu0YQOWxymt
you want."528Please respect copyright.PENANAmcipVxJhgI
"It worked for you, didn't it?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAPeNdiwkngQ
"What do you mean?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAXnksMPgVQK
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 528Please respect copyright.PENANALYRJdmiH2i
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 528Please respect copyright.PENANASOsVTlbdQo
sister."528Please respect copyright.PENANA4cD1VwPYwg
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."528Please respect copyright.PENANA4UmRPGRRlN
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."528Please respect copyright.PENANAtzVFCmaLs1
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."528Please respect copyright.PENANAbAw2udAd6n
"I'm just speaking the truth."528Please respect copyright.PENANAV2f1EcQxnQ
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."528Please respect copyright.PENANAHJyVaA0q3g
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."528Please respect copyright.PENANAcnJ4JLuVMH
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."528Please respect copyright.PENANAoNMAaUbjIj
"I was protecting my sister."528Please respect copyright.PENANA5hNqdUIosq
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 528Please respect copyright.PENANArirPzXiIyS
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 528Please respect copyright.PENANANC14keeFDP
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."528Please respect copyright.PENANAfjcJ4EvIfv
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 528Please respect copyright.PENANApBqdOq0t6a
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.528Please respect copyright.PENANAMhgxbB53AF
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 528Please respect copyright.PENANAXmLpCsiMRd
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 528Please respect copyright.PENANAlAieXAZL37
betray you like Carly betrayed me."528Please respect copyright.PENANAcP39lIJsFA
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 528Please respect copyright.PENANAHvX5MyWGZ7
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 528Please respect copyright.PENANAfCeUcIpOwI
crystal glass.528Please respect copyright.PENANAXL0iBK2dfh
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 528Please respect copyright.PENANAlvrogMbkXZ
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 528Please respect copyright.PENANALgTFGhgVNC
in this situation right now."528Please respect copyright.PENANAConQXJvBKK
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 528Please respect copyright.PENANAlDGgESLV8r
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 528Please respect copyright.PENANA6wG0qFUHCe
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 528Please respect copyright.PENANACCiDpvTr5X
actions.528Please respect copyright.PENANAcY2BpoAGYI
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.528Please respect copyright.PENANAXYKb5xPGG5
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 528Please respect copyright.PENANAjszMuvNVjE
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 528Please respect copyright.PENANAEUdKL5hmE6
near Carly."528Please respect copyright.PENANAnblpAuNRpo
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."528Please respect copyright.PENANAMcxZLfh2Tg
"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......"528Please respect copyright.PENANArGEfk6xb1X
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 528Please respect copyright.PENANARfJ4o7tRZq
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting528Please respect copyright.PENANAAoFRrMmSw8
Carly, she would be insulting herself.528Please respect copyright.PENANA1g258ZAmge
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.528Please respect copyright.PENANAOVLkyyZPOo
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAxV0G515ZfJ
"That would never happen."528Please respect copyright.PENANAzjT338rhYk
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."528Please respect copyright.PENANAy1RONruMZh
"A fool in love, yes."528Please respect copyright.PENANAua9d9d7GPO
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."528Please respect copyright.PENANA5WWKtsY0h5
"Why? Because you don't like me?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAa2un8y7UWT
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.528Please respect copyright.PENANABHSqgZ0XYY
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 528Please respect copyright.PENANAgwsbN7V5u5
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 528Please respect copyright.PENANAZdT9Sx7iyW
and my accident that she would ever change."528Please respect copyright.PENANAkBpETZmj7W
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."528Please respect copyright.PENANARCTHBd7ign
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,528Please respect copyright.PENANAwpmaBcNsaH
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."528Please respect copyright.PENANAAFUZPl6Rqg
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?528Please respect copyright.PENANA2ThfThRTl6
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.528Please respect copyright.PENANAR3EneAFmg3
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAE7HmcRCSIV
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 528Please respect copyright.PENANAOSLSxwUvaa
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 528Please respect copyright.PENANA8EciOB9wqr
puzzled.528Please respect copyright.PENANA5kcD14l0PN
***528Please respect copyright.PENANAi161L8W3yY
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 528Please respect copyright.PENANAsQ6gT9amVo
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 528Please respect copyright.PENANA2Q7F8edVwA
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.528Please respect copyright.PENANAmSQ3Xka70g
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."528Please respect copyright.PENANAAwiphZCDzv
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 528Please respect copyright.PENANA9jYbSoZPHr
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 528Please respect copyright.PENANAcyEQPy73nQ
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 528Please respect copyright.PENANAZNI8AKl0qT
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 528Please respect copyright.PENANA9qnDgtTRlp
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.528Please respect copyright.PENANAWYGCpS4JMw
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 528Please respect copyright.PENANA1KdDYZ3svC
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 528Please respect copyright.PENANAtVw6hSCHD9
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 528Please respect copyright.PENANAj4udLW1K1B
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 528Please respect copyright.PENANAzi9qVOFnFw
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 528Please respect copyright.PENANAYoYm08WzTP
McDonell should be.528Please respect copyright.PENANA2XMTRIJmMn
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:528Please respect copyright.PENANAOZ8wq4XbNS
"Our family has been successfully with the 528Please respect copyright.PENANAXcfNJx2gVd
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 528Please respect copyright.PENANAP9luWKTl4c
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 528Please respect copyright.PENANAU6823Uik15
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 528Please respect copyright.PENANA1phEipIFg2
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in528Please respect copyright.PENANACCYXjRALTs
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 528Please respect copyright.PENANAp0zH78GlLq
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 528Please respect copyright.PENANAYa5txE8Yyl
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 528Please respect copyright.PENANAmMoy7lsHyD
especially from my brother. He is so kind."528Please respect copyright.PENANA4EF0rnFJ8y
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help528Please respect copyright.PENANAOmKK9mp9We
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't528Please respect copyright.PENANAUzbokLEQBn
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 528Please respect copyright.PENANAtzQ54BlEs0
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role528Please respect copyright.PENANA4cphWYw8vN
model.528Please respect copyright.PENANAen2TNdQ2t0
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 528Please respect copyright.PENANA7nPwewSbCN
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 528Please respect copyright.PENANAslC8y8qJTL
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 528Please respect copyright.PENANAWoqS0i4eE9
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big528Please respect copyright.PENANAtQqT4OvEaW
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 528Please respect copyright.PENANAqImT3A1oWu
the financial state her family was in.528Please respect copyright.PENANAYfqpk2VK7u
But now that she was with the McDonell 528Please respect copyright.PENANAPeT5H2Uf6Q
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life528Please respect copyright.PENANA25eD9FL40O
she has always wanted.528Please respect copyright.PENANA0Rhh91UK1J
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.528Please respect copyright.PENANACN3nZ246RN
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing528Please respect copyright.PENANAHxkf8TeJe4
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 528Please respect copyright.PENANAIdWlaHRONL
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.528Please respect copyright.PENANAQuGPqBtdZT
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.528Please respect copyright.PENANAlJeHb2HiXa
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"528Please respect copyright.PENANAXIlDgHfVOm
"That would be awesome."528Please respect copyright.PENANA8S8vWJXtfb
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 528Please respect copyright.PENANA5wMdAny6dp
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 528Please respect copyright.PENANAeLHXNmv81N
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.528Please respect copyright.PENANAkx07IbNNrs
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 528Please respect copyright.PENANAwwBLq0r96V
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 528Please respect copyright.PENANA5mwC99noaX
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had528Please respect copyright.PENANAKtpYWwdNyR
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 528Please respect copyright.PENANAoxKtPCrGSs
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.528Please respect copyright.PENANApHnTVutnrJ
Miranda.528Please respect copyright.PENANAmS3KpCuj3y
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 528Please respect copyright.PENANAlTOKAsKbdQ
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 528Please respect copyright.PENANAUNujRdtXir
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 528Please respect copyright.PENANAXi9syCBqj2
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 528Please respect copyright.PENANACRo3RbIb4z
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.528Please respect copyright.PENANAgktLFdvDmX
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 528Please respect copyright.PENANAP02JS15Up4
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 528Please respect copyright.PENANA1tzuADQFXN
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 528Please respect copyright.PENANADs3UAvqvjr
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 528Please respect copyright.PENANAPwMsGjeaOA
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 528Please respect copyright.PENANAohQP59EL7D
she never ever discussed her life with them.528Please respect copyright.PENANABYciHK21gE
Could it be Miranda?528Please respect copyright.PENANAbjliniJ76j
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She528Please respect copyright.PENANAVepr4xem7P
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 528Please respect copyright.PENANABgarKZd5Na
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 528Please respect copyright.PENANAMfWBMLGnYn
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.528Please respect copyright.PENANAm4koPfKjAu
And now she was calling Carly after all this528Please respect copyright.PENANAJuZWiau2IZ
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 528Please respect copyright.PENANAhZu423PqBI
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't528Please respect copyright.PENANAwOB9QBnEXy
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her528Please respect copyright.PENANAQIMHNd81Et
betrayal.528Please respect copyright.PENANAI9pT12eJ72
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of528Please respect copyright.PENANACG9GHkrw6W
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 528Please respect copyright.PENANAxTYAUaSKru
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.528Please respect copyright.PENANAzBSIcZjhnC
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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