Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading560Please respect copyright.PENANAx212AOFkmf
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 560Please respect copyright.PENANA0dkyiWxRlr
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 560Please respect copyright.PENANAj2Lhk7AM1p
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 560Please respect copyright.PENANApWSsP3aLKg
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?560Please respect copyright.PENANAUxtXlLa3hc
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college560Please respect copyright.PENANAsrnAzH9nCP
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had560Please respect copyright.PENANAzRn7kuNoxf
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 560Please respect copyright.PENANABh4AhIHIw9
boss a call.560Please respect copyright.PENANAhOw56IOzYD
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.560Please respect copyright.PENANAd8os6OqDLk
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."560Please respect copyright.PENANAYkQDdus5yW
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."560Please respect copyright.PENANAZYfYTew914
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."560Please respect copyright.PENANACw261GRm25
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"560Please respect copyright.PENANABVjDktPps8
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 560Please respect copyright.PENANA8KfiqslNFP
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 560Please respect copyright.PENANA5pMWwbzGG0
looked really tired and restless.560Please respect copyright.PENANA5Gqv3mWIWN
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.560Please respect copyright.PENANAcUHDVJ023Y
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came560Please respect copyright.PENANAE2f9dU9uzG
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 560Please respect copyright.PENANAxnNOyxNLkn
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 560Please respect copyright.PENANATtTbcBdfJ7
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 560Please respect copyright.PENANANAMklDVaFF
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 560Please respect copyright.PENANAyxP4m0ny2J
huge loss.560Please respect copyright.PENANA9Ah4QTqVDS
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 560Please respect copyright.PENANAxQilFbvPi2
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdXJQRMGL8m
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."560Please respect copyright.PENANAs4oFmf2suf
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."560Please respect copyright.PENANAz9IREKu0VV
"What are you planning to do?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAs1Row8VVCm
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."560Please respect copyright.PENANAEpEAOFA3Kg
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 560Please respect copyright.PENANACOzVUsFDxj
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 560Please respect copyright.PENANA3oCJnXiZ7S
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 560Please respect copyright.PENANAzNafMfgdzN
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.560Please respect copyright.PENANAVU4jrOKlwu
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.560Please respect copyright.PENANAwg2hCXA1TE
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdBDJmeN47z
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 560Please respect copyright.PENANAPVefpDE6ow
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 560Please respect copyright.PENANAd4nq8oWNeR
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 560Please respect copyright.PENANAMnpluzrQR0
vacant space weren't as good as her.560Please respect copyright.PENANAWBel77onbX
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 560Please respect copyright.PENANA4nsuMIXUFW
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 560Please respect copyright.PENANARb9T49iAbQ
lucky charm.560Please respect copyright.PENANAbJAZgTaTEK
And he needed her back real bad.560Please respect copyright.PENANArAuUcB61x0
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.560Please respect copyright.PENANAuz4fKfwKnm
"I have a job for you."560Please respect copyright.PENANA2jrmwJ4zGS
***560Please respect copyright.PENANAH2bEEhnebs
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.560Please respect copyright.PENANAU6LEBpYDwM
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdu01wPsBaJ
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 560Please respect copyright.PENANACIRyS216ho
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.560Please respect copyright.PENANAK3sQRaTKU4
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.560Please respect copyright.PENANADLsmf9pqjb
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.560Please respect copyright.PENANAIqv0u5fWco
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 560Please respect copyright.PENANAcGD9OczMdI
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't560Please respect copyright.PENANATRLjeU0blq
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 560Please respect copyright.PENANAIQZ0jbFnNU
serious.560Please respect copyright.PENANANoUgE4S6cs
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.560Please respect copyright.PENANAuSZ2nAjh4s
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.560Please respect copyright.PENANA1RwEIo5zzV
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."560Please respect copyright.PENANA46cS3MpE24
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.560Please respect copyright.PENANAMbLNxgc2ol
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."560Please respect copyright.PENANAgcPRz7zC0w
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.560Please respect copyright.PENANAzWeZXCF9yI
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're560Please respect copyright.PENANA48p2hTMpZ2
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 560Please respect copyright.PENANACRmjvH2KxU
between the two of you considering what happened."560Please respect copyright.PENANA2R7tVaJ2XJ
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.560Please respect copyright.PENANAjW7KpzmyKv
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."560Please respect copyright.PENANAQKBMNQ0Y0c
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"560Please respect copyright.PENANA1ffggV2zIY
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."560Please respect copyright.PENANACMtBgUkIdK
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.560Please respect copyright.PENANA9dunp9iqTn
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."560Please respect copyright.PENANA9wVrtjNJ7r
"And you never apologised for it," said 560Please respect copyright.PENANAg1AuSLpvN1
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 560Please respect copyright.PENANAsJPZH6BNZa
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 560Please respect copyright.PENANAU7sD9S1HZ7
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."560Please respect copyright.PENANAHo3SKyGsIG
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 560Please respect copyright.PENANAJNvIj2JHEU
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 560Please respect copyright.PENANA2HI35AuxqM
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 560Please respect copyright.PENANAAZpv8WnyTg
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 560Please respect copyright.PENANA3AMHpN86bG
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 560Please respect copyright.PENANAbq0DM67XxM
for what happened to her.560Please respect copyright.PENANAm0vUM0EqGY
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.560Please respect copyright.PENANALXSsMIHgO0
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 560Please respect copyright.PENANAwRYMXgrLqW
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 560Please respect copyright.PENANAAVNTnih9Ge
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAwHCeuebEuJ
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If560Please respect copyright.PENANAV8F6QPVfhx
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdufWFXiVRv
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 560Please respect copyright.PENANAOrTuKUQ6Pd
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 560Please respect copyright.PENANA8JDx5ClKqw
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 560Please respect copyright.PENANAF27tNmxKP2
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 560Please respect copyright.PENANANxfWfdg6xL
back at the club.560Please respect copyright.PENANA6XgApf6Sgy
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 560Please respect copyright.PENANATnl4YkuhtY
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 560Please respect copyright.PENANAjbr8TSBHya
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 560Please respect copyright.PENANA3sNnl3OKiJ
sisters completely.560Please respect copyright.PENANAC6vZJ8IZl6
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."560Please respect copyright.PENANABcxjJBpib7
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 560Please respect copyright.PENANAM2vKEOoJMk
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.560Please respect copyright.PENANAYAXhoiloN5
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.560Please respect copyright.PENANAfG0bX4XTZb
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 560Please respect copyright.PENANAA1Q5bw3RnM
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 560Please respect copyright.PENANAUBQI5BKKUE
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 560Please respect copyright.PENANAOaR2FWowOr
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 560Please respect copyright.PENANAbs4N3BYe1d
club, not him.560Please respect copyright.PENANAbsLE8yUFxR
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."560Please respect copyright.PENANAX1Y1TT1GXo
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.560Please respect copyright.PENANAa1xuIUQCFe
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."560Please respect copyright.PENANAHqwXMaQrvt
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two560Please respect copyright.PENANApH5t1REsVr
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 560Please respect copyright.PENANAqX4VqWDaU5
at each other yet, have you?"560Please respect copyright.PENANACg6aV4Pgok
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.560Please respect copyright.PENANA8t3UoyczmC
"No," they answered at the same time.560Please respect copyright.PENANA3nhK9c9iQS
"Great. That's good to know."560Please respect copyright.PENANA02dARbOX0G
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.560Please respect copyright.PENANA70Ft1m2Wlq
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.560Please respect copyright.PENANAb5JHUXHSdf
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.560Please respect copyright.PENANAKMzPX74h27
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take560Please respect copyright.PENANAqVBLCIHyFk
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."560Please respect copyright.PENANAVmTFrGrjKl
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.560Please respect copyright.PENANAP6KzynqB5u
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."560Please respect copyright.PENANACiFFr47S69
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"560Please respect copyright.PENANAxnWzx8kmuB
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 560Please respect copyright.PENANAofhq8Il2Ay
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 560Please respect copyright.PENANABPz1NSevuJ
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't560Please respect copyright.PENANAeRUaCP4QMj
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 560Please respect copyright.PENANA6vQi3k3CGG
long."560Please respect copyright.PENANAW47yYZDmoQ
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.560Please respect copyright.PENANAcyGvbSH5gn
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.560Please respect copyright.PENANAcCxJ8Z7RTe
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."560Please respect copyright.PENANAiv1TjAwLSW
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.560Please respect copyright.PENANAvQ9T7JWP9S
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.560Please respect copyright.PENANAOEjI7qSryn
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.560Please respect copyright.PENANAc3kSuUdF3Z
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.560Please respect copyright.PENANAzG2F6vuoks
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that560Please respect copyright.PENANA99KazylQRc
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 560Please respect copyright.PENANAvyXZf14xWk
Not like this. Something was wrong.560Please respect copyright.PENANAnz706ZRQCl
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.560Please respect copyright.PENANA8cpYmBWhIo
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 560Please respect copyright.PENANARbjRRK8Zjr
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that560Please respect copyright.PENANACTqP8gja9E
embarrassed?"560Please respect copyright.PENANA80m5Fe3nYC
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 560Please respect copyright.PENANA1Z7oaL0Sdp
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her560Please respect copyright.PENANAclhAkpKF9q
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.560Please respect copyright.PENANAMURlk0AZ5z
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 560Please respect copyright.PENANALZaL65IF0m
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 560Please respect copyright.PENANA2pE5UYFMKp
today?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAEkMNE0sBrh
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 560Please respect copyright.PENANAMVEv1ThTAQ
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 560Please respect copyright.PENANAocwZsn1nSP
you want."560Please respect copyright.PENANAncRDGX2ao5
"It worked for you, didn't it?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAYPoMejIxWY
"What do you mean?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAi7h9uMc5UT
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 560Please respect copyright.PENANADB9VoSSES7
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 560Please respect copyright.PENANALngb4Flbgo
sister."560Please respect copyright.PENANAnPfdww9EEJ
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."560Please respect copyright.PENANAZJfb48Iiib
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."560Please respect copyright.PENANA8Fnm78fcmy
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."560Please respect copyright.PENANAc2hO3DWyPn
"I'm just speaking the truth."560Please respect copyright.PENANApSXGtKgpvE
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."560Please respect copyright.PENANAfe5iGfFSjj
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."560Please respect copyright.PENANADf50vombZX
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."560Please respect copyright.PENANAl3uU0EvEtt
"I was protecting my sister."560Please respect copyright.PENANAbNwgF6TLyQ
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 560Please respect copyright.PENANAGPSD5RG3Z5
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 560Please respect copyright.PENANA9hJlZKI3xg
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."560Please respect copyright.PENANAJFFFRbxGyA
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 560Please respect copyright.PENANA0v370sJKdq
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.560Please respect copyright.PENANAntnVjx4Ik1
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 560Please respect copyright.PENANATBDDtct4Qk
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 560Please respect copyright.PENANAYSTso6AQPu
betray you like Carly betrayed me."560Please respect copyright.PENANATi8XULTdrJ
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 560Please respect copyright.PENANAmZoUyi5Ihd
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 560Please respect copyright.PENANAP10vHZVI2u
crystal glass.560Please respect copyright.PENANAGAbTq4HjcG
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 560Please respect copyright.PENANAOzWh2PdPxH
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 560Please respect copyright.PENANAmcV3cLftiR
in this situation right now."560Please respect copyright.PENANA0kg4yuwhW5
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 560Please respect copyright.PENANAANcTxLSRhd
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 560Please respect copyright.PENANATO53NLwuUh
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 560Please respect copyright.PENANAUj42g1uEpc
actions.560Please respect copyright.PENANAOHIgA5clRM
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.560Please respect copyright.PENANAcX0fiDaFKt
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 560Please respect copyright.PENANAeZQmEpHMQP
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 560Please respect copyright.PENANA2VfDOmCs8J
near Carly."560Please respect copyright.PENANAajRpVdQWxB
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."560Please respect copyright.PENANAAnC4dOIbnn
"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......"560Please respect copyright.PENANABjNGNBKT0j
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 560Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3lPzMKqXh
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting560Please respect copyright.PENANAenXhnFzP0Q
Carly, she would be insulting herself.560Please respect copyright.PENANAwI80qLD8NO
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.560Please respect copyright.PENANA0Qmca3xxRl
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAdqrLmJ50A3
"That would never happen."560Please respect copyright.PENANA4Zejygb8pt
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."560Please respect copyright.PENANABYTi8RkGw1
"A fool in love, yes."560Please respect copyright.PENANA3BB3a8tX8g
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."560Please respect copyright.PENANAuQGL0Jnv5N
"Why? Because you don't like me?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAqJYoF5yLKy
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.560Please respect copyright.PENANApPy4U5GvjS
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 560Please respect copyright.PENANAbP8PLWgLqr
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 560Please respect copyright.PENANA9MY4FBWH36
and my accident that she would ever change."560Please respect copyright.PENANAwzlEr6hwej
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."560Please respect copyright.PENANA0NjxCfT6PL
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,560Please respect copyright.PENANAnVhXDRbibu
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."560Please respect copyright.PENANACtDXR9f5xI
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?560Please respect copyright.PENANA3iL7dTGz3l
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.560Please respect copyright.PENANAk0nvbnzleb
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"560Please respect copyright.PENANACTFPppdmrz
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 560Please respect copyright.PENANAX06xDD2xou
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 560Please respect copyright.PENANAqPfy49YTG8
puzzled.560Please respect copyright.PENANAjSrh7zWEbc
***560Please respect copyright.PENANAfKrMBhMuem
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 560Please respect copyright.PENANATYleu9KfSY
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 560Please respect copyright.PENANAA47POobXl1
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.560Please respect copyright.PENANAc68g5M8wi4
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."560Please respect copyright.PENANA72NK2p5vDE
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 560Please respect copyright.PENANA1KerqPbOhb
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 560Please respect copyright.PENANAcguu88tJOH
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 560Please respect copyright.PENANA7rXdHdotS8
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 560Please respect copyright.PENANAgzlyYorMbZ
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.560Please respect copyright.PENANAMRr2qRJzLR
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 560Please respect copyright.PENANADqBmkAUyuR
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 560Please respect copyright.PENANAbF5gD5VnZd
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 560Please respect copyright.PENANAZmvymbKnUS
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdb7tXSguhH
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 560Please respect copyright.PENANAK55wsSoIYU
McDonell should be.560Please respect copyright.PENANAXG7JUkdNEw
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:560Please respect copyright.PENANAyEvyng9PEr
"Our family has been successfully with the 560Please respect copyright.PENANABh1BUDMEuA
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 560Please respect copyright.PENANASdqjUUw1w5
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 560Please respect copyright.PENANAhRW76stJto
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 560Please respect copyright.PENANAkpgrhCzMTa
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in560Please respect copyright.PENANAx4CrSHsl3w
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 560Please respect copyright.PENANALk8oifaphS
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 560Please respect copyright.PENANApVyXjHkpnh
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 560Please respect copyright.PENANAupvLkZCNDv
especially from my brother. He is so kind."560Please respect copyright.PENANA6a5S6l7nK2
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help560Please respect copyright.PENANANiMgf1RfJG
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't560Please respect copyright.PENANABGVmWqOM50
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 560Please respect copyright.PENANAeONi8jO0EL
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role560Please respect copyright.PENANAtRqgPVQO9P
model.560Please respect copyright.PENANAmofuQ4c13D
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 560Please respect copyright.PENANArwE1U8cFKp
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 560Please respect copyright.PENANAUISaNTQAF2
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 560Please respect copyright.PENANAdPxXV8hB7U
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big560Please respect copyright.PENANAfnB9Pwicxn
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 560Please respect copyright.PENANAJJpwiQElpr
the financial state her family was in.560Please respect copyright.PENANAA8RVFU7gkQ
But now that she was with the McDonell 560Please respect copyright.PENANA4E2w6V5XRC
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life560Please respect copyright.PENANAsnURDVOxQ4
she has always wanted.560Please respect copyright.PENANAvY7euoHpBR
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.560Please respect copyright.PENANAjqk768goZt
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing560Please respect copyright.PENANA7XK0j8Rwtc
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 560Please respect copyright.PENANA9cQIAaL5RW
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.560Please respect copyright.PENANAf9U7AGiq9m
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.560Please respect copyright.PENANAUjw5YLXCmk
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"560Please respect copyright.PENANAhdW2H3dRNl
"That would be awesome."560Please respect copyright.PENANAyPRzks0tky
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 560Please respect copyright.PENANAcVEyQrWrSg
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 560Please respect copyright.PENANAzOV3EFGFzc
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.560Please respect copyright.PENANAykNzds8nsE
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 560Please respect copyright.PENANAOIQog8ewpH
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 560Please respect copyright.PENANA7wqLSpix56
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had560Please respect copyright.PENANATAWZnZkSu5
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 560Please respect copyright.PENANAK2k7lxPxqK
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.560Please respect copyright.PENANAHdp0JiR0mh
Miranda.560Please respect copyright.PENANAqAS7Y9CJsL
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 560Please respect copyright.PENANAivuvW1Rk80
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 560Please respect copyright.PENANA92e9Mo3lXY
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 560Please respect copyright.PENANAGhAkaSOltI
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 560Please respect copyright.PENANAE9SHMkeZUb
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.560Please respect copyright.PENANArBA59OOoGB
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 560Please respect copyright.PENANAPcqRWmShLA
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 560Please respect copyright.PENANAHhCNcxEFfs
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 560Please respect copyright.PENANAiuoBra8m0k
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 560Please respect copyright.PENANAlrH3ZPkL28
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 560Please respect copyright.PENANANdmj4iL2IZ
she never ever discussed her life with them.560Please respect copyright.PENANAQs5ohEoGO2
Could it be Miranda?560Please respect copyright.PENANAhPo1KOpBzD
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She560Please respect copyright.PENANA8iqYqUXeHy
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 560Please respect copyright.PENANAr1NLJpmAmQ
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 560Please respect copyright.PENANABdjb7Xq6UF
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.560Please respect copyright.PENANAgYrkOS9lEu
And now she was calling Carly after all this560Please respect copyright.PENANANVhxU7oIRm
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 560Please respect copyright.PENANA1CniBRPtzE
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't560Please respect copyright.PENANAwib4vq1qHu
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her560Please respect copyright.PENANAGF1Rp9diZL
betrayal.560Please respect copyright.PENANAujc3ffFJzC
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of560Please respect copyright.PENANAkMZEQYL5yR
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 560Please respect copyright.PENANAZp9XlV7ndO
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.560Please respect copyright.PENANAeuG7ZymieV
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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