Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading487Please respect copyright.PENANAbxbabz1lCQ
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 487Please respect copyright.PENANAl7BK4mIxtk
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 487Please respect copyright.PENANATAowvoyyI7
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 487Please respect copyright.PENANAvSxOKIXPom
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?487Please respect copyright.PENANAYB4UehAwfW
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college487Please respect copyright.PENANA7k7X9ISskI
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had487Please respect copyright.PENANAHBIpCSzej2
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 487Please respect copyright.PENANAz9PYKOwTbn
boss a call.487Please respect copyright.PENANAyecirPpRRd
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.487Please respect copyright.PENANAUeL3PcuRx0
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."487Please respect copyright.PENANAXWEJTpdbB1
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."487Please respect copyright.PENANAutPaSdE28q
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."487Please respect copyright.PENANA2XYYuPJzaP
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"487Please respect copyright.PENANABaVF6OCupm
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 487Please respect copyright.PENANAPr2KlMkJmX
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 487Please respect copyright.PENANAswRyXgheJc
looked really tired and restless.487Please respect copyright.PENANA9wZ06nFhMZ
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.487Please respect copyright.PENANAfVGOZmry0x
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came487Please respect copyright.PENANAoXgjokLtxK
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 487Please respect copyright.PENANAgXiP5y1yFi
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 487Please respect copyright.PENANA5tHZHoQZTr
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 487Please respect copyright.PENANAO02senp0FZ
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 487Please respect copyright.PENANAUhXOhUcD8d
huge loss.487Please respect copyright.PENANAuVmITJ55mU
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 487Please respect copyright.PENANA6SKmkRtabt
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 487Please respect copyright.PENANAOilQFxwBeK
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."487Please respect copyright.PENANACyUI43htmf
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."487Please respect copyright.PENANAW7U3uWyr1h
"What are you planning to do?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAZjcDSwBJjV
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."487Please respect copyright.PENANA7oCtFZlKcg
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 487Please respect copyright.PENANAYZ2KgAqIRp
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 487Please respect copyright.PENANAAv72f9kWtg
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 487Please respect copyright.PENANAxASJCLNMbN
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.487Please respect copyright.PENANAcpWRAXeohN
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.487Please respect copyright.PENANA2eauMJocnK
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 487Please respect copyright.PENANAnYf4nHL83A
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 487Please respect copyright.PENANAIn87uz5PKL
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 487Please respect copyright.PENANAoYkRATkA0P
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 487Please respect copyright.PENANAlvaaGswTYF
vacant space weren't as good as her.487Please respect copyright.PENANAvTNMxo1MdU
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 487Please respect copyright.PENANAzFISLio8Hn
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 487Please respect copyright.PENANA01kiwikyAp
lucky charm.487Please respect copyright.PENANAfXi3lTT9yd
And he needed her back real bad.487Please respect copyright.PENANAaCfv0SgMGX
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.487Please respect copyright.PENANA24Ku8WEbxX
"I have a job for you."487Please respect copyright.PENANA0NOWzNPLjj
***487Please respect copyright.PENANAiDG1UCzWYy
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.487Please respect copyright.PENANAoBQLiVZPmr
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 487Please respect copyright.PENANAg28BSqEe18
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 487Please respect copyright.PENANAj0hP2zLh6m
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.487Please respect copyright.PENANAbRhPTwydmN
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.487Please respect copyright.PENANARvCTtZi1sk
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.487Please respect copyright.PENANAAHu3ULakGS
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 487Please respect copyright.PENANAnJvTvB7M8B
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't487Please respect copyright.PENANA6iWQZGs4xe
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 487Please respect copyright.PENANANSICX1EGUB
serious.487Please respect copyright.PENANAqWmtL0rY92
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.487Please respect copyright.PENANAmefVM4QTeB
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.487Please respect copyright.PENANAQKCdb2gaaM
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."487Please respect copyright.PENANA5lXCbyDOqt
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.487Please respect copyright.PENANAaVTRtC20GO
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."487Please respect copyright.PENANAzMVICjuPPS
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.487Please respect copyright.PENANAHymuVWEz67
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're487Please respect copyright.PENANAidazT8BqgB
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 487Please respect copyright.PENANAmlPTs4luH1
between the two of you considering what happened."487Please respect copyright.PENANAZa9Kgbp4Uv
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.487Please respect copyright.PENANAigdyd0HS2O
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."487Please respect copyright.PENANAnDdYKZTGMc
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"487Please respect copyright.PENANABntlHGpZ1h
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."487Please respect copyright.PENANAehR8yCIbUs
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.487Please respect copyright.PENANAJjk9SUSQbU
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."487Please respect copyright.PENANAWUBKViuXSx
"And you never apologised for it," said 487Please respect copyright.PENANAmC20DbuvxS
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 487Please respect copyright.PENANA3J1JuiXsCd
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 487Please respect copyright.PENANAFEOlsXcBsp
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."487Please respect copyright.PENANASEze9C4G1X
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 487Please respect copyright.PENANAtYwowpKHE1
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 487Please respect copyright.PENANAkXNBNf20Kr
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 487Please respect copyright.PENANAcMAMtLPwcg
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 487Please respect copyright.PENANA5jdg1mmQye
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 487Please respect copyright.PENANAxSS6yG1uRZ
for what happened to her.487Please respect copyright.PENANALASTy0fqru
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.487Please respect copyright.PENANAobP70DAWJA
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 487Please respect copyright.PENANAACkCZbAtty
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 487Please respect copyright.PENANAly7OXBaQNl
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAIZAzpkZNU4
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If487Please respect copyright.PENANAQS1V9PySbG
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 487Please respect copyright.PENANAUA45xnBciQ
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 487Please respect copyright.PENANAmni1KZYGAH
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 487Please respect copyright.PENANARH5Sw6zKYB
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 487Please respect copyright.PENANAPfE6iFxwYG
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 487Please respect copyright.PENANAQZBS6inOiF
back at the club.487Please respect copyright.PENANA17nZbSf4B1
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 487Please respect copyright.PENANAGXdwFpnK5f
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 487Please respect copyright.PENANAo6E8sSs7qF
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 487Please respect copyright.PENANAdS1bDzPExm
sisters completely.487Please respect copyright.PENANAJHqGSPXIxD
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."487Please respect copyright.PENANAcJsS1uuHST
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 487Please respect copyright.PENANAMgLBJyvJg3
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.487Please respect copyright.PENANAxu3TJ6U0OU
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.487Please respect copyright.PENANASkhrdUPLj9
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 487Please respect copyright.PENANACm6M7OrcZy
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 487Please respect copyright.PENANAv749xZfDge
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 487Please respect copyright.PENANANDCuz3aoXo
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 487Please respect copyright.PENANAqzj5UUkwZd
club, not him.487Please respect copyright.PENANAFbo4uDpQeg
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."487Please respect copyright.PENANATPHt2Q2zVQ
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.487Please respect copyright.PENANAidrG0DzD35
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."487Please respect copyright.PENANAU7gEOiDK1T
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two487Please respect copyright.PENANAelpLMNRiXL
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 487Please respect copyright.PENANADThnadJmRh
at each other yet, have you?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAWubRNj0D4S
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.487Please respect copyright.PENANARLRRTExHMx
"No," they answered at the same time.487Please respect copyright.PENANAeONjF8crgK
"Great. That's good to know."487Please respect copyright.PENANAOuqIyxsLGl
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.487Please respect copyright.PENANApAHEHY5NcL
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.487Please respect copyright.PENANAFDk5G1DJPm
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.487Please respect copyright.PENANAvRm0sd2lI2
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take487Please respect copyright.PENANAWdeayYoJ7N
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."487Please respect copyright.PENANANBfTZ08kEC
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.487Please respect copyright.PENANAE1WEUMDVYM
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."487Please respect copyright.PENANAQJ23wG166n
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"487Please respect copyright.PENANATNLsRT20rQ
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 487Please respect copyright.PENANAd9yro0YRSx
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 487Please respect copyright.PENANAnflqNnXF1r
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't487Please respect copyright.PENANA9QyI35KtKo
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 487Please respect copyright.PENANAl3hvJZz5Ez
long."487Please respect copyright.PENANAL3KALZ7sFG
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.487Please respect copyright.PENANAiapjxHNdJs
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.487Please respect copyright.PENANApTA92JY6iG
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."487Please respect copyright.PENANAW8APAaambB
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.487Please respect copyright.PENANAUofUKO3fcQ
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.487Please respect copyright.PENANAKse6LiXZQr
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.487Please respect copyright.PENANApTz6UXhZfq
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.487Please respect copyright.PENANAGpCFpfiB2l
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that487Please respect copyright.PENANABSlEixfgDH
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 487Please respect copyright.PENANAx9xSYm6mH4
Not like this. Something was wrong.487Please respect copyright.PENANALgtBl8jRxb
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.487Please respect copyright.PENANAKzhWVM7Jxe
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 487Please respect copyright.PENANAiVnSKtwk2Y
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that487Please respect copyright.PENANADWZdXCelGv
embarrassed?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAN4jdlnfeRf
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 487Please respect copyright.PENANAXkstKTwdtg
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her487Please respect copyright.PENANAb3VaEgGSoR
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.487Please respect copyright.PENANAaeAyLKMZwG
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 487Please respect copyright.PENANAVASdsZacXh
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 487Please respect copyright.PENANA5naH3cy7QJ
today?"487Please respect copyright.PENANA1QMAB07RgD
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 487Please respect copyright.PENANAMyM0HsSRUM
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 487Please respect copyright.PENANAOStxHEhGCr
you want."487Please respect copyright.PENANARcVTFyzNll
"It worked for you, didn't it?"487Please respect copyright.PENANA8zUKgJNFL1
"What do you mean?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAt4lbIBjjvC
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 487Please respect copyright.PENANAbNInf7huov
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 487Please respect copyright.PENANAaoW8jucYfH
sister."487Please respect copyright.PENANAeuixAxeFRl
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."487Please respect copyright.PENANAhDc1n7fePL
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."487Please respect copyright.PENANAsSRORrh28y
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."487Please respect copyright.PENANAXJvuNxn8Wk
"I'm just speaking the truth."487Please respect copyright.PENANAjAz7C77U3N
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."487Please respect copyright.PENANAa5CUftUjom
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."487Please respect copyright.PENANApCZAVRz4Dh
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."487Please respect copyright.PENANA55p05stHnu
"I was protecting my sister."487Please respect copyright.PENANABdplLd7qEQ
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 487Please respect copyright.PENANAIpIenYA4MM
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 487Please respect copyright.PENANADknLshAEkT
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."487Please respect copyright.PENANAu727b2UWfS
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 487Please respect copyright.PENANAMvvjqtdpiA
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.487Please respect copyright.PENANARcSRvvikXp
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 487Please respect copyright.PENANAXJSPtE8R3r
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 487Please respect copyright.PENANAJa0ICrIeM2
betray you like Carly betrayed me."487Please respect copyright.PENANAECE6LfIpRc
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 487Please respect copyright.PENANA7mse9KTgHd
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 487Please respect copyright.PENANAfkd8JeX5Tc
crystal glass.487Please respect copyright.PENANAIvUucoaRWm
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 487Please respect copyright.PENANA1u22EMDUXY
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 487Please respect copyright.PENANA92DTAPohpO
in this situation right now."487Please respect copyright.PENANARr5oZUKz8k
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 487Please respect copyright.PENANAw7aKlQRgnA
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 487Please respect copyright.PENANAwRTefl72Wc
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 487Please respect copyright.PENANAfo9oC3faoR
actions.487Please respect copyright.PENANAdaTcMFmLyb
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.487Please respect copyright.PENANAnsl42de90q
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 487Please respect copyright.PENANAM1Oqgfx6sw
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 487Please respect copyright.PENANADLdhlTmOuV
near Carly."487Please respect copyright.PENANAMBo1ml4yek
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."487Please respect copyright.PENANA3kovPfgUaP
"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......"487Please respect copyright.PENANAI203HVtrUL
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 487Please respect copyright.PENANAVxJ9FDcYtD
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting487Please respect copyright.PENANAiqih1IS7Y9
Carly, she would be insulting herself.487Please respect copyright.PENANAUWpRiY1Opd
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.487Please respect copyright.PENANAioK7YLI1yI
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"487Please respect copyright.PENANA3W8HcPJoCB
"That would never happen."487Please respect copyright.PENANAjhVg6SEdSt
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."487Please respect copyright.PENANAXWuxJl3lOB
"A fool in love, yes."487Please respect copyright.PENANAMzBbeNlFHo
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."487Please respect copyright.PENANASpKiLOlKcM
"Why? Because you don't like me?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAPmnzPeYmPm
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.487Please respect copyright.PENANAn5VBxlxq2A
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 487Please respect copyright.PENANAalfZ2olL1T
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 487Please respect copyright.PENANAemeUYRTs0n
and my accident that she would ever change."487Please respect copyright.PENANATPxZ4Yc24G
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."487Please respect copyright.PENANA6wBg3c4d9O
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,487Please respect copyright.PENANAfSWs4wXi7Q
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."487Please respect copyright.PENANAc51WyeeZ4D
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?487Please respect copyright.PENANAq9Xlapo1yh
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.487Please respect copyright.PENANApfh7EjYuA2
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAOSmQOpCRKv
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 487Please respect copyright.PENANAuv6DO31KhD
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 487Please respect copyright.PENANAwVzwaKG8Xl
puzzled.487Please respect copyright.PENANA1d3ayiHWFv
***487Please respect copyright.PENANAUoVoxFm6cR
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 487Please respect copyright.PENANADGIVsXrcvV
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 487Please respect copyright.PENANAN5lDsGmV6R
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.487Please respect copyright.PENANAEmTs5krZNx
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."487Please respect copyright.PENANA7EUIwlceQg
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 487Please respect copyright.PENANAtEGsUBdsFq
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 487Please respect copyright.PENANAjceP5I5j5j
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 487Please respect copyright.PENANAxiE2VMdOzW
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 487Please respect copyright.PENANA91SvwuW5tb
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.487Please respect copyright.PENANAUl3KS9H6BK
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 487Please respect copyright.PENANAJi1cMtlwg6
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 487Please respect copyright.PENANAg8uooL31vo
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 487Please respect copyright.PENANAwhHhPqPHvy
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 487Please respect copyright.PENANABGYmd1VqSn
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 487Please respect copyright.PENANAVP107a9RJU
McDonell should be.487Please respect copyright.PENANAqySOgF5Cba
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:487Please respect copyright.PENANAcXF2Fusrwh
"Our family has been successfully with the 487Please respect copyright.PENANAQYCxpxD6pM
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 487Please respect copyright.PENANAq80a8Ybjwh
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 487Please respect copyright.PENANAtuCfb4iIEF
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 487Please respect copyright.PENANAn1ep44gRIi
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in487Please respect copyright.PENANAQZPVEDajpU
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 487Please respect copyright.PENANAeg8fv16SnL
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 487Please respect copyright.PENANArXtnNH5bYQ
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 487Please respect copyright.PENANAykoJBsczGZ
especially from my brother. He is so kind."487Please respect copyright.PENANAWYpwplp68B
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help487Please respect copyright.PENANAcDhfiW4zO3
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't487Please respect copyright.PENANAJse3rzF5ui
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 487Please respect copyright.PENANAqFhX9vJf5r
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role487Please respect copyright.PENANAf42DU5nAvC
model.487Please respect copyright.PENANAvI0fK3nmo3
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 487Please respect copyright.PENANA9GFfwLn1gc
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 487Please respect copyright.PENANAEPdaInXCpS
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 487Please respect copyright.PENANAssoWiANx3v
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big487Please respect copyright.PENANAqEJQqBcYZB
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 487Please respect copyright.PENANAjBTsmPCSjv
the financial state her family was in.487Please respect copyright.PENANAa0UoBnjbOC
But now that she was with the McDonell 487Please respect copyright.PENANAyJYK4qmlJw
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life487Please respect copyright.PENANANPb8ZPQInt
she has always wanted.487Please respect copyright.PENANAJeN2KuvU15
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.487Please respect copyright.PENANAMUpWH86WcD
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing487Please respect copyright.PENANAK1v75IMSHL
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 487Please respect copyright.PENANAmlFFvduJda
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.487Please respect copyright.PENANA0wnipOvxxc
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.487Please respect copyright.PENANAoOxAjTAa6c
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"487Please respect copyright.PENANAUb8KOdRe3S
"That would be awesome."487Please respect copyright.PENANAdp2UXpUWhb
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 487Please respect copyright.PENANAbRvIx2EDZ9
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 487Please respect copyright.PENANAWI5HULlraJ
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.487Please respect copyright.PENANA7O6d1M91gp
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 487Please respect copyright.PENANAkQgP1mmsNa
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 487Please respect copyright.PENANAon6SpRWICe
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had487Please respect copyright.PENANAdZtb1eHQ2R
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 487Please respect copyright.PENANABspY0LEgMN
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.487Please respect copyright.PENANAf8nfyUC1hR
Miranda.487Please respect copyright.PENANA1FGVRlzPoL
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 487Please respect copyright.PENANAGvbPuZ8awz
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 487Please respect copyright.PENANAXLKl8Rsgpg
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 487Please respect copyright.PENANAc4J4uDjEny
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 487Please respect copyright.PENANAQwVW3R2CKP
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.487Please respect copyright.PENANA7fM1d17iib
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 487Please respect copyright.PENANALG4eNTkuxM
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 487Please respect copyright.PENANAoN12TnoQ6Z
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 487Please respect copyright.PENANANv8WEWGMV8
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 487Please respect copyright.PENANA3oJcICFKbO
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 487Please respect copyright.PENANAs9XaOJpazk
she never ever discussed her life with them.487Please respect copyright.PENANACJDFJ2aUau
Could it be Miranda?487Please respect copyright.PENANAWf3KZOBtIw
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She487Please respect copyright.PENANA68z90LTnzH
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 487Please respect copyright.PENANA2X7Ne0pstM
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 487Please respect copyright.PENANAg4exexSKJJ
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.487Please respect copyright.PENANATR2odQbQqd
And now she was calling Carly after all this487Please respect copyright.PENANAeLtt1B97CB
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 487Please respect copyright.PENANAwgDENP13B3
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't487Please respect copyright.PENANAPWuoop8k0Q
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her487Please respect copyright.PENANAmUfaQPdMJu
betrayal.487Please respect copyright.PENANAXjBa9FeptN
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of487Please respect copyright.PENANAko7ox4hdcj
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 487Please respect copyright.PENANAejrpwmRNM7
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.487Please respect copyright.PENANAm5PmaaSguC
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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