Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading533Please respect copyright.PENANAm95TU5iQQk
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 533Please respect copyright.PENANADXIfGEYt3h
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 533Please respect copyright.PENANAACaAfg7OZo
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 533Please respect copyright.PENANAfawTDHB1li
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?533Please respect copyright.PENANAmaDgiKGNbh
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college533Please respect copyright.PENANAfUryP6sYLJ
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had533Please respect copyright.PENANArlRbWwQ9zc
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 533Please respect copyright.PENANAHe82zS366h
boss a call.533Please respect copyright.PENANAR28VkffR08
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.533Please respect copyright.PENANAwfVn96DYCy
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."533Please respect copyright.PENANAL50kMBHshL
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."533Please respect copyright.PENANAAtv9MM9Huv
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."533Please respect copyright.PENANAUpXly4CTiV
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAWHzo0IOMTU
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 533Please respect copyright.PENANA2kcHRec4Vd
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 533Please respect copyright.PENANAECKzcRPzIe
looked really tired and restless.533Please respect copyright.PENANAOSgcL0BxoE
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.533Please respect copyright.PENANAjDZRkyIFO3
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came533Please respect copyright.PENANAepAiJa0DnQ
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 533Please respect copyright.PENANAIRl98DDnNg
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 533Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0BGGel9fL
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 533Please respect copyright.PENANAeuxQ2OZbhi
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 533Please respect copyright.PENANAZwAKFiB2rm
huge loss.533Please respect copyright.PENANAgNnk98Oi4M
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 533Please respect copyright.PENANAgdiMU7Jigd
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 533Please respect copyright.PENANAI1zBJiim84
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."533Please respect copyright.PENANATcduGEOzMn
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."533Please respect copyright.PENANAiY3k0oDxMD
"What are you planning to do?"533Please respect copyright.PENANA9GIxaAEIgH
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."533Please respect copyright.PENANAkSYYV9FY10
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 533Please respect copyright.PENANAiu5r42O0I9
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 533Please respect copyright.PENANAIu1BleYiM2
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 533Please respect copyright.PENANAjGv7NOyDIx
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.533Please respect copyright.PENANAyaS8xuUT7p
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.533Please respect copyright.PENANACqjNPL13Bl
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 533Please respect copyright.PENANAvtJcN9UrVe
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 533Please respect copyright.PENANAehlSi7UfIU
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 533Please respect copyright.PENANAUcquSJ947s
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 533Please respect copyright.PENANAyZEZwrrr0Z
vacant space weren't as good as her.533Please respect copyright.PENANAcjdUQojodt
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 533Please respect copyright.PENANA1nbQhvUL1x
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 533Please respect copyright.PENANArUjSkOukEj
lucky charm.533Please respect copyright.PENANAS7uWp97CQH
And he needed her back real bad.533Please respect copyright.PENANAzda5W8vhQU
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.533Please respect copyright.PENANALf70EahdEf
"I have a job for you."533Please respect copyright.PENANASn7eLn9UL2
***533Please respect copyright.PENANAt6Oo0aUXuF
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.533Please respect copyright.PENANAiw2P1Kf6FB
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 533Please respect copyright.PENANASF9Je4rMsd
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 533Please respect copyright.PENANARJwUjfUf1L
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.533Please respect copyright.PENANAAOKPeIYcwx
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAnUWASLdLLb
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAz2ZYhXB13k
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 533Please respect copyright.PENANA9e9lTlU0kz
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't533Please respect copyright.PENANAFmTyLJsO5x
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 533Please respect copyright.PENANABFHEnVVGI3
serious.533Please respect copyright.PENANAcChHEH18BV
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAhlF2Jl0w21
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.533Please respect copyright.PENANAtwWlBTJ8Yq
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."533Please respect copyright.PENANAi6pCN597Wq
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.533Please respect copyright.PENANARa0PMzIFpm
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."533Please respect copyright.PENANAE7rCxUQ0hf
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.533Please respect copyright.PENANAEvPvWzK7Vo
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're533Please respect copyright.PENANA0RhKtAC7yu
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 533Please respect copyright.PENANAdtZojldobR
between the two of you considering what happened."533Please respect copyright.PENANAPIGOQ2hKe9
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.533Please respect copyright.PENANAzh4d15w86x
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."533Please respect copyright.PENANAua6c3aJ3x6
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAwooqd2awVG
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."533Please respect copyright.PENANAzZ59XxyiDC
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.533Please respect copyright.PENANAiUBNI4QxeS
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."533Please respect copyright.PENANANL2kABODaS
"And you never apologised for it," said 533Please respect copyright.PENANAG2DM74DmWI
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 533Please respect copyright.PENANAKHRy6nTNKe
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 533Please respect copyright.PENANAoTy9X7T8gY
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."533Please respect copyright.PENANAVOumFOJDQu
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 533Please respect copyright.PENANAwXnk8IXRzE
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 533Please respect copyright.PENANAKivoYsTHh5
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 533Please respect copyright.PENANAbOOz9qsFh7
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 533Please respect copyright.PENANAhqJZws8ybH
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 533Please respect copyright.PENANAz442xab9oS
for what happened to her.533Please respect copyright.PENANASawJrpq9vA
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.533Please respect copyright.PENANAxtn9fFrUr8
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 533Please respect copyright.PENANAonQGSCMOAm
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 533Please respect copyright.PENANAMF3nAK1jzS
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAR7BJyfJ00Q
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If533Please respect copyright.PENANACVh9mOGrcr
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 533Please respect copyright.PENANAFcukaxSlJc
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 533Please respect copyright.PENANAbJ4ltPPT2A
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 533Please respect copyright.PENANAygB5T9ZlaW
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 533Please respect copyright.PENANAKRdfx4e1q7
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 533Please respect copyright.PENANAgWNFdb5Awv
back at the club.533Please respect copyright.PENANAF9iZdiRkXM
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 533Please respect copyright.PENANAq03IRMNJMR
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 533Please respect copyright.PENANASDOPNpmoTe
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 533Please respect copyright.PENANAVjZrvVVn2V
sisters completely.533Please respect copyright.PENANAqSm1mvmpTX
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."533Please respect copyright.PENANAnlFyUXhTB4
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 533Please respect copyright.PENANA6orNqopyaU
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.533Please respect copyright.PENANAkqs6fPIwXZ
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.533Please respect copyright.PENANA8bqgmVK5UM
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 533Please respect copyright.PENANA3r8nXz72ty
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 533Please respect copyright.PENANA0VB6DrQBX5
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 533Please respect copyright.PENANARH9LRVNGzi
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 533Please respect copyright.PENANAoRjQGgHLTE
club, not him.533Please respect copyright.PENANA1KZ7tWqLBy
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."533Please respect copyright.PENANAJVTWOVGvUM
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.533Please respect copyright.PENANAc3xLTd3h8N
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."533Please respect copyright.PENANATw3lFrcCeq
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two533Please respect copyright.PENANAghtyrU0nn4
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 533Please respect copyright.PENANABYdWh0rMiC
at each other yet, have you?"533Please respect copyright.PENANANc3S6np39w
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAS98pkaNoVS
"No," they answered at the same time.533Please respect copyright.PENANAPHEHbAsN05
"Great. That's good to know."533Please respect copyright.PENANAQCfQyLpNp3
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.533Please respect copyright.PENANAtE1yGcxlLW
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.533Please respect copyright.PENANA5M8Ybvtgxp
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAeUsd4KuK8b
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take533Please respect copyright.PENANArq2vFtoWkY
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."533Please respect copyright.PENANAnjpM1SxmKK
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.533Please respect copyright.PENANAIZ8qOVIlTd
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."533Please respect copyright.PENANAJDvMvZr1ma
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"533Please respect copyright.PENANANl743t8y1l
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 533Please respect copyright.PENANAxFNcfWCmiM
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 533Please respect copyright.PENANAGqzT4Ar85h
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't533Please respect copyright.PENANARJMulfdmA5
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 533Please respect copyright.PENANAc3Lm4LziWj
long."533Please respect copyright.PENANAa3VBed8qgs
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.533Please respect copyright.PENANAMAkLudXhGz
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.533Please respect copyright.PENANA7buX4SiUOS
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."533Please respect copyright.PENANAzKtuCkcyPw
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.533Please respect copyright.PENANAuV1T5dogkC
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.533Please respect copyright.PENANAR28iAuNd2m
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.533Please respect copyright.PENANAXJrOdKJC9N
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.533Please respect copyright.PENANAWA16AacSjh
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that533Please respect copyright.PENANAQutcgEkPJm
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 533Please respect copyright.PENANAGolO8fpSB3
Not like this. Something was wrong.533Please respect copyright.PENANAG4WMqllbyC
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.533Please respect copyright.PENANAiHkz3oE91p
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 533Please respect copyright.PENANA6dQI13bplv
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that533Please respect copyright.PENANASUakPBDfaA
embarrassed?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAkn5wDl6bEw
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 533Please respect copyright.PENANAlPIO90yXzU
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her533Please respect copyright.PENANAqkTbg3lNqC
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.533Please respect copyright.PENANAM4ie66DCyV
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 533Please respect copyright.PENANAC41mC2ZEhM
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 533Please respect copyright.PENANA71SajMv70E
today?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAXyrmC40TdE
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 533Please respect copyright.PENANAzLUdbZFoaR
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 533Please respect copyright.PENANAGXEPmzBdoz
you want."533Please respect copyright.PENANAniOXu44xnt
"It worked for you, didn't it?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAamD4YvHCy2
"What do you mean?"533Please respect copyright.PENANARWvCdV9CoY
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 533Please respect copyright.PENANA0CHf98yZ75
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 533Please respect copyright.PENANAyEj3nQbC9j
sister."533Please respect copyright.PENANAynoEvY5YNw
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."533Please respect copyright.PENANAqXpa5Ftp1t
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."533Please respect copyright.PENANAE4WzLyTKc9
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."533Please respect copyright.PENANA6IfzHArkQ2
"I'm just speaking the truth."533Please respect copyright.PENANAWiBai5krkX
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."533Please respect copyright.PENANA4ffrh6V72n
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."533Please respect copyright.PENANAR82lEm23ye
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."533Please respect copyright.PENANAU6ydgMUKho
"I was protecting my sister."533Please respect copyright.PENANAA2mEUmLonl
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 533Please respect copyright.PENANAsDvo1dddYT
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 533Please respect copyright.PENANAS7fnyMLHiM
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."533Please respect copyright.PENANAXCD7qS1LAF
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 533Please respect copyright.PENANAldLqBgFI8H
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.533Please respect copyright.PENANA0UQM8t8olo
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 533Please respect copyright.PENANAK8rBMA1PQE
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 533Please respect copyright.PENANAzQQUnh2Dz8
betray you like Carly betrayed me."533Please respect copyright.PENANASG1f55zDBp
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 533Please respect copyright.PENANAXJfVHLF3he
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 533Please respect copyright.PENANAQsdv7t3VFl
crystal glass.533Please respect copyright.PENANAr3vtCoisrd
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 533Please respect copyright.PENANAZSEOUnWS2l
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 533Please respect copyright.PENANA9aKyM1p2eL
in this situation right now."533Please respect copyright.PENANAsT4BHvLc2N
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 533Please respect copyright.PENANAS3CVVKMhKT
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 533Please respect copyright.PENANAZpQngpxmzQ
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 533Please respect copyright.PENANA8nZHSyeNwI
actions.533Please respect copyright.PENANAACOEK7Mrvs
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.533Please respect copyright.PENANAG6rfgoxbQC
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 533Please respect copyright.PENANAFjExMjDZYO
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 533Please respect copyright.PENANAfZAIy27Z7v
near Carly."533Please respect copyright.PENANAKaWJaiKm3L
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."533Please respect copyright.PENANAvlg10epJlE
"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......"533Please respect copyright.PENANAbbQpzqbrms
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 533Please respect copyright.PENANAG39SXC5NC1
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting533Please respect copyright.PENANAer5YJifOWF
Carly, she would be insulting herself.533Please respect copyright.PENANAqesHBnpZeL
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.533Please respect copyright.PENANAEXt4TfDeRq
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"533Please respect copyright.PENANABXWQnH2Rhn
"That would never happen."533Please respect copyright.PENANAO1DFIixOUG
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."533Please respect copyright.PENANAbHMbYylw1Z
"A fool in love, yes."533Please respect copyright.PENANAyArdUJQXOD
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."533Please respect copyright.PENANAg1YypIevZE
"Why? Because you don't like me?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAsMLrKaUEqW
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.533Please respect copyright.PENANAMaiCB7Sq3H
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 533Please respect copyright.PENANAVejvwtXM7k
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 533Please respect copyright.PENANAUWWKVzQ7oY
and my accident that she would ever change."533Please respect copyright.PENANAHJYwyVjoNt
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."533Please respect copyright.PENANAKhro9WCCSZ
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,533Please respect copyright.PENANAFECCy34fQf
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."533Please respect copyright.PENANAZpMxVuu4SX
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?533Please respect copyright.PENANA8CRiTkht5P
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.533Please respect copyright.PENANAkJsoUDUryC
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"533Please respect copyright.PENANAdWXkFsK7M6
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 533Please respect copyright.PENANACMHi2RPglF
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 533Please respect copyright.PENANABTNyuDCRD9
puzzled.533Please respect copyright.PENANAYgy7Yo8mUh
***533Please respect copyright.PENANAf9787Kbb7Q
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 533Please respect copyright.PENANANbqQnDRtMw
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 533Please respect copyright.PENANAuiLrK8NosA
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.533Please respect copyright.PENANAmD6aEfGyhT
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."533Please respect copyright.PENANAI62iBzbDqj
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 533Please respect copyright.PENANAMygNsJVjzq
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 533Please respect copyright.PENANATFSGk7890O
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 533Please respect copyright.PENANAw9vS8sSGD2
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 533Please respect copyright.PENANAmMnKUWPMTs
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.533Please respect copyright.PENANApeMewZLJ6p
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 533Please respect copyright.PENANASfiggl89RV
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 533Please respect copyright.PENANAQXAEfjcXQr
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 533Please respect copyright.PENANAx4cwRp3rAA
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 533Please respect copyright.PENANAKizszT0Blm
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 533Please respect copyright.PENANADWv66XvGKD
McDonell should be.533Please respect copyright.PENANAaW8sVroPAY
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:533Please respect copyright.PENANANggvCoXjKg
"Our family has been successfully with the 533Please respect copyright.PENANAcFFOpdmuYP
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 533Please respect copyright.PENANAohC0OcYJyH
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 533Please respect copyright.PENANAcAtyx3Ypwb
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 533Please respect copyright.PENANAJqBW1LbH24
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in533Please respect copyright.PENANA4oEhLTGian
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 533Please respect copyright.PENANA9E46nnIOga
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 533Please respect copyright.PENANAwche9Xrx4w
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 533Please respect copyright.PENANATU7f5OZURW
especially from my brother. He is so kind."533Please respect copyright.PENANAnh8Qp4tfnR
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help533Please respect copyright.PENANA4OjvEXqOpI
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't533Please respect copyright.PENANAH0Pw3K8y3G
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 533Please respect copyright.PENANArHZMZoQpZR
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role533Please respect copyright.PENANA8el2oTWjoy
model.533Please respect copyright.PENANACie0uqMITb
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 533Please respect copyright.PENANAstHTvcrPjx
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 533Please respect copyright.PENANANZ8YtT5P1V
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 533Please respect copyright.PENANASM4DD2BJX2
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big533Please respect copyright.PENANABVKzvv40xN
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 533Please respect copyright.PENANAxSgpeVIZvY
the financial state her family was in.533Please respect copyright.PENANAVOuENZvQIt
But now that she was with the McDonell 533Please respect copyright.PENANALPckLbfgGt
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life533Please respect copyright.PENANAPt13Hv5mEQ
she has always wanted.533Please respect copyright.PENANAMdekcvIjqQ
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.533Please respect copyright.PENANAkpAvLVqLJp
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing533Please respect copyright.PENANAcb7VIUz7z9
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 533Please respect copyright.PENANAXf4DYtzcLk
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.533Please respect copyright.PENANAKy9yCay0ps
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.533Please respect copyright.PENANAWIOFy5D228
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"533Please respect copyright.PENANA7JnvAKsYAs
"That would be awesome."533Please respect copyright.PENANAyIGC541CoE
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 533Please respect copyright.PENANATLaXyUEEkX
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 533Please respect copyright.PENANAKXevC11RL2
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.533Please respect copyright.PENANAkhK7ihWNFZ
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 533Please respect copyright.PENANADm42tYNrKE
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 533Please respect copyright.PENANAsilNKkTqgb
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had533Please respect copyright.PENANAISeFu0AbMF
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 533Please respect copyright.PENANAqucisajINv
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.533Please respect copyright.PENANABRCMcwh3oM
Miranda.533Please respect copyright.PENANAKz2ZBSEHkf
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 533Please respect copyright.PENANAobi6m1tKiR
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 533Please respect copyright.PENANA1Lbjt3IAIw
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 533Please respect copyright.PENANAVTlAIaUI6O
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 533Please respect copyright.PENANAOQViaXSRF8
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.533Please respect copyright.PENANAcgUCqDoAaY
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 533Please respect copyright.PENANAcbMKHtKXQX
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 533Please respect copyright.PENANA3TcIL2L1Vq
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 533Please respect copyright.PENANAAqpPJtibWm
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 533Please respect copyright.PENANARIxOmmw3yK
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 533Please respect copyright.PENANALHb4n3842s
she never ever discussed her life with them.533Please respect copyright.PENANAJIIs7iBa0l
Could it be Miranda?533Please respect copyright.PENANAnmwvgZbN2N
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She533Please respect copyright.PENANAMensdPnzhh
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 533Please respect copyright.PENANAxt2yFOoCBX
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 533Please respect copyright.PENANATXUbQpbmjy
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.533Please respect copyright.PENANArYMZt2dc17
And now she was calling Carly after all this533Please respect copyright.PENANApamSRFLgaa
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 533Please respect copyright.PENANAUgyb42N0PE
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't533Please respect copyright.PENANAM20ocCE05I
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her533Please respect copyright.PENANAQfJuZZTD6p
betrayal.533Please respect copyright.PENANAJJCd9ejQNw
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of533Please respect copyright.PENANAJf5IMuZZWk
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 533Please respect copyright.PENANA5hZ3lr3TYe
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.533Please respect copyright.PENANAx08DySwrL4
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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