Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading549Please respect copyright.PENANAcSCY3ecnDT
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 549Please respect copyright.PENANANEe9ZHX9oz
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhu8am5R5JI
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 549Please respect copyright.PENANAzhq8x0lqqM
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?549Please respect copyright.PENANARaPmpaomFu
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college549Please respect copyright.PENANAmp2CtcPStb
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had549Please respect copyright.PENANAm8pwloqazh
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 549Please respect copyright.PENANAxQufBGuxDQ
boss a call.549Please respect copyright.PENANAwLRipUAsb4
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.549Please respect copyright.PENANA2Wk3lEyYJa
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."549Please respect copyright.PENANAXT2yAW8339
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."549Please respect copyright.PENANAmHTYSms50a
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."549Please respect copyright.PENANAC3VTAM5mdI
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAL7b8CSnzFu
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 549Please respect copyright.PENANA7bl6Dzqagv
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 549Please respect copyright.PENANAd1tEchifd5
looked really tired and restless.549Please respect copyright.PENANAcypQhGtoV1
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.549Please respect copyright.PENANAA12QsduM3d
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came549Please respect copyright.PENANAvE81xrLOou
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 549Please respect copyright.PENANACatEGPnfHd
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 549Please respect copyright.PENANAo2iXn2lKew
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 549Please respect copyright.PENANAbLKJYv0dPg
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhBBu1Brq7v
huge loss.549Please respect copyright.PENANAH6DNGlMTRi
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 549Please respect copyright.PENANAQTyCsCkbuz
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 549Please respect copyright.PENANANgrafxeX9j
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."549Please respect copyright.PENANAJPhUwXwGFd
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."549Please respect copyright.PENANApV95xXxJwO
"What are you planning to do?"549Please respect copyright.PENANA9kHoPFjzvJ
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."549Please respect copyright.PENANAKZfcxjI3kU
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 549Please respect copyright.PENANAs2V0REZNT0
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 549Please respect copyright.PENANAOYPnqGDsFJ
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 549Please respect copyright.PENANAFtGfrEIIXy
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.549Please respect copyright.PENANAmIch8z88Wz
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.549Please respect copyright.PENANAkATxvwR66m
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 549Please respect copyright.PENANAE54j0keArV
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhs1vj4Lc7v
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 549Please respect copyright.PENANArw3LYNTBBg
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 549Please respect copyright.PENANAjFvJ4UIUoA
vacant space weren't as good as her.549Please respect copyright.PENANAJfoprKmKOC
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 549Please respect copyright.PENANAA6uDQC2ODG
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 549Please respect copyright.PENANAA5GNHSOyyz
lucky charm.549Please respect copyright.PENANAWJnIsLHLm5
And he needed her back real bad.549Please respect copyright.PENANAL8FOwJDJfq
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.549Please respect copyright.PENANAMLGCOpYcIc
"I have a job for you."549Please respect copyright.PENANAES7mqGlkW6
***549Please respect copyright.PENANAQn52zsL9in
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.549Please respect copyright.PENANAj8DlTMebl8
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 549Please respect copyright.PENANAqpmuCoM78D
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 549Please respect copyright.PENANAL5UI7nCLB4
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.549Please respect copyright.PENANANk3rECaFdG
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.549Please respect copyright.PENANAoPV06tyC8Z
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.549Please respect copyright.PENANAvlHJ8sQv7K
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 549Please respect copyright.PENANATyzFG6OSWj
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't549Please respect copyright.PENANAucReBHrvf9
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 549Please respect copyright.PENANAL2rcxCtmqq
serious.549Please respect copyright.PENANAPIwJM6Dnfg
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.549Please respect copyright.PENANAnfB5jltKwD
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.549Please respect copyright.PENANAmc3LL2u12f
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."549Please respect copyright.PENANAwlehCqjn4h
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.549Please respect copyright.PENANAXnsL0vY2gr
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."549Please respect copyright.PENANADGYzWJ7SKI
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.549Please respect copyright.PENANAuI7sw4IX9Y
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're549Please respect copyright.PENANAwvphAHNBzX
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 549Please respect copyright.PENANAZA5K07QvVE
between the two of you considering what happened."549Please respect copyright.PENANACYTfodrAZw
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.549Please respect copyright.PENANAQMJmcSyq2O
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."549Please respect copyright.PENANAJ7hKLwfPMg
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAXLbnYtUXV0
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."549Please respect copyright.PENANA8tUraOuNk8
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.549Please respect copyright.PENANATJCxdIKRpw
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."549Please respect copyright.PENANAsrO6MHS0Aj
"And you never apologised for it," said 549Please respect copyright.PENANARWSIZ0zsAS
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 549Please respect copyright.PENANAUy4k3bYn5B
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 549Please respect copyright.PENANAmFIV4pwkEO
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."549Please respect copyright.PENANAjDGHDh1Ayu
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 549Please respect copyright.PENANApTXZ1l7iZE
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 549Please respect copyright.PENANAsBV8Gygkmx
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 549Please respect copyright.PENANAI5CeC36JS2
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 549Please respect copyright.PENANAiSdgCfpovu
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 549Please respect copyright.PENANA3EMVIqXvYJ
for what happened to her.549Please respect copyright.PENANAbP2Gyb2VGG
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.549Please respect copyright.PENANA9D5wGxxqLI
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 549Please respect copyright.PENANAQzMLfxzUEB
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 549Please respect copyright.PENANAaZCnZP2bJE
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAtK9htY9E1S
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If549Please respect copyright.PENANA5tBok8zSga
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhd7pCuIHuH
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 549Please respect copyright.PENANAfeVX2zlJjI
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 549Please respect copyright.PENANAI7mnttZdkG
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 549Please respect copyright.PENANAsScJ8SOQy2
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 549Please respect copyright.PENANAaMfKDL2EHe
back at the club.549Please respect copyright.PENANA5d0ivT3Cdo
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 549Please respect copyright.PENANAXVvMkdPgku
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 549Please respect copyright.PENANA22hFOvqpUu
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 549Please respect copyright.PENANAHE3ZOr3jod
sisters completely.549Please respect copyright.PENANAgty9kPPJNW
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."549Please respect copyright.PENANAwmQ1BJzyGE
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhU9BzLKwSL
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.549Please respect copyright.PENANAnCSiFLK76y
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.549Please respect copyright.PENANAfx8ZamuKzU
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 549Please respect copyright.PENANArOi1AYGlyR
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 549Please respect copyright.PENANATgOEVGscTx
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 549Please respect copyright.PENANAMhFmAzbfZN
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 549Please respect copyright.PENANAc77GuX5Xji
club, not him.549Please respect copyright.PENANAWm1oz2HK0o
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."549Please respect copyright.PENANApUfBPRZZe4
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.549Please respect copyright.PENANA9Uckp1aOa3
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."549Please respect copyright.PENANAJrBw8mRrwG
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two549Please respect copyright.PENANAVT9QPe3Zp4
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 549Please respect copyright.PENANAPneK1UpA4r
at each other yet, have you?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAv7b3paaC0r
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.549Please respect copyright.PENANANY3MDnFs4C
"No," they answered at the same time.549Please respect copyright.PENANA3pzLmrGoXX
"Great. That's good to know."549Please respect copyright.PENANAlRHLyQMXCM
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.549Please respect copyright.PENANAB0zXXx6smv
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.549Please respect copyright.PENANAw8A3vLCYPl
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.549Please respect copyright.PENANAzWN465IhHP
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take549Please respect copyright.PENANAF0xINvg0dj
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."549Please respect copyright.PENANALg9vBEvyfg
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.549Please respect copyright.PENANAm3bSjHiCT4
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."549Please respect copyright.PENANAbeNJThtD8u
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"549Please respect copyright.PENANA2GYmElGg4B
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 549Please respect copyright.PENANAsI5CR9FkVN
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 549Please respect copyright.PENANAKBN5GYQaOi
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't549Please respect copyright.PENANAcdiHEwUEEY
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 549Please respect copyright.PENANABqoN0BRWzM
long."549Please respect copyright.PENANA6ancOzMSqF
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.549Please respect copyright.PENANAWHFzNFUbox
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.549Please respect copyright.PENANAhdZV69fgjy
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."549Please respect copyright.PENANAf0AX0x12GE
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.549Please respect copyright.PENANA8xV4i2zmdW
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.549Please respect copyright.PENANAs1ulwRpgMf
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.549Please respect copyright.PENANAAShMeSMwKF
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.549Please respect copyright.PENANAazZCJ243BW
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that549Please respect copyright.PENANAeWOUDht3Ey
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 549Please respect copyright.PENANAXsDZN4b8Dw
Not like this. Something was wrong.549Please respect copyright.PENANAZjPskQuHz7
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.549Please respect copyright.PENANANVGkhkGnIa
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 549Please respect copyright.PENANAEF2Jlb0LmV
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that549Please respect copyright.PENANAJEzK8vOGAF
embarrassed?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAQoAA46SUep
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 549Please respect copyright.PENANAJnIgnM3v0d
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her549Please respect copyright.PENANAG3RGdYaU8a
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.549Please respect copyright.PENANApjk5fWwSdJ
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 549Please respect copyright.PENANA9AkRdmUuOD
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 549Please respect copyright.PENANAKHZi2gi0VI
today?"549Please respect copyright.PENANA8DQU1tMAFH
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 549Please respect copyright.PENANATEptj8wEW4
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 549Please respect copyright.PENANAn7G3nRi3S2
you want."549Please respect copyright.PENANAFymZCon5ob
"It worked for you, didn't it?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAKHLVErI4l0
"What do you mean?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAkHnvuvvSvr
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 549Please respect copyright.PENANALtVy3aGE9z
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 549Please respect copyright.PENANAVPA6zejMdy
sister."549Please respect copyright.PENANAlDW9AKVv8y
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."549Please respect copyright.PENANAG9afMKTEj8
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."549Please respect copyright.PENANA5hFJR5zP6c
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."549Please respect copyright.PENANAu8pKmiVYpK
"I'm just speaking the truth."549Please respect copyright.PENANA4aFl1N1prk
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."549Please respect copyright.PENANA3eh5Cq70K2
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."549Please respect copyright.PENANA7f0t3DE5lF
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."549Please respect copyright.PENANA8AsBrgZfcC
"I was protecting my sister."549Please respect copyright.PENANAyTW5p5EPrv
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 549Please respect copyright.PENANAjOmgWigQA8
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 549Please respect copyright.PENANAFzvTJXuRgQ
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."549Please respect copyright.PENANAOA76XREaUS
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 549Please respect copyright.PENANA196GghjGyW
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.549Please respect copyright.PENANAHvp9f0ObgH
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 549Please respect copyright.PENANA5Pl467E2V2
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 549Please respect copyright.PENANAFMxMBwuIVq
betray you like Carly betrayed me."549Please respect copyright.PENANAntexQ4vUAB
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 549Please respect copyright.PENANAPppQsHrzRw
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 549Please respect copyright.PENANAOUVw37x1PQ
crystal glass.549Please respect copyright.PENANAqMwJLA8cXN
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 549Please respect copyright.PENANAPKk1VQeXnb
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 549Please respect copyright.PENANAhoz6X7GcnT
in this situation right now."549Please respect copyright.PENANADFfzaz4cqV
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 549Please respect copyright.PENANALk9VZE3v02
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 549Please respect copyright.PENANAXHkwaLp01U
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 549Please respect copyright.PENANA6veuyruKTM
actions.549Please respect copyright.PENANA4qDK6Wntx9
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.549Please respect copyright.PENANAnd8g1Z7dPv
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 549Please respect copyright.PENANAa4hHpkVwIQ
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 549Please respect copyright.PENANA0Mu0sImO2O
near Carly."549Please respect copyright.PENANAykuZ7FHKKg
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."549Please respect copyright.PENANAiI3AHfk3Xo
"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......"549Please respect copyright.PENANAjEPrwwPoZv
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 549Please respect copyright.PENANApyD0ALdg7J
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting549Please respect copyright.PENANAHJC3ANFW0M
Carly, she would be insulting herself.549Please respect copyright.PENANA09DpwOsvKq
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.549Please respect copyright.PENANAoChkR38I9O
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAdbCcFqB3bJ
"That would never happen."549Please respect copyright.PENANApDLQDr3LR3
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."549Please respect copyright.PENANApk0mewj51u
"A fool in love, yes."549Please respect copyright.PENANAiIVQ4XWVyC
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."549Please respect copyright.PENANAyGza8tPT5S
"Why? Because you don't like me?"549Please respect copyright.PENANArUjDqjokHk
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.549Please respect copyright.PENANAhDxcR027N2
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 549Please respect copyright.PENANAoeLwkePfIH
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 549Please respect copyright.PENANAsbECjSvESL
and my accident that she would ever change."549Please respect copyright.PENANAzMOgNr9qTO
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."549Please respect copyright.PENANAkQbeBx5we8
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,549Please respect copyright.PENANAnDvnBArnRV
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."549Please respect copyright.PENANAwL3EBdUoho
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?549Please respect copyright.PENANATma7tzT16O
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.549Please respect copyright.PENANAGBCozM9HbU
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"549Please respect copyright.PENANAO4p9hkEpxf
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 549Please respect copyright.PENANAP6ZxOw89jl
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 549Please respect copyright.PENANABjICxoq00r
puzzled.549Please respect copyright.PENANAWst7Mti1DT
***549Please respect copyright.PENANAuSILA7x3aM
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 549Please respect copyright.PENANAymHT38025Q
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 549Please respect copyright.PENANANjoaRIa1LI
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.549Please respect copyright.PENANA4e5qyfuuX7
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."549Please respect copyright.PENANAIw9bN4YanH
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 549Please respect copyright.PENANAkhIs0KOGdv
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 549Please respect copyright.PENANA4pXSrAsVsm
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 549Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0f0JWxhvc
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 549Please respect copyright.PENANAgRSWNTuvIY
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.549Please respect copyright.PENANAZ9IIbf9r2a
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 549Please respect copyright.PENANA95CuxEbIYy
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 549Please respect copyright.PENANAzb2w7yhWsH
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 549Please respect copyright.PENANAvnkUEYlN4M
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 549Please respect copyright.PENANAtYYqaVN6jn
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 549Please respect copyright.PENANA6ISpSTmLNb
McDonell should be.549Please respect copyright.PENANA8KTx6SrI94
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:549Please respect copyright.PENANAPcSoS3wt2I
"Our family has been successfully with the 549Please respect copyright.PENANAwRmJ7Qe4H5
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 549Please respect copyright.PENANAACkPtDKeTJ
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 549Please respect copyright.PENANApFUoi0YRep
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 549Please respect copyright.PENANAVT8c0O3S33
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in549Please respect copyright.PENANAdCb7fBJ02z
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 549Please respect copyright.PENANAspiAxDmpl0
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 549Please respect copyright.PENANAOk7uz7jSWg
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 549Please respect copyright.PENANAo9uAAqa7fy
especially from my brother. He is so kind."549Please respect copyright.PENANA3h6dMB6uag
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help549Please respect copyright.PENANApT3Z8JTQzn
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't549Please respect copyright.PENANA0Fbi7IzOUR
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 549Please respect copyright.PENANAfzSGPSsJgl
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role549Please respect copyright.PENANAL859a9bjdc
model.549Please respect copyright.PENANAp1nLZi8jZC
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 549Please respect copyright.PENANAFsQ90bhDwn
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 549Please respect copyright.PENANAlk5BsZEFtm
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 549Please respect copyright.PENANAT1SPLqMOKF
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big549Please respect copyright.PENANAZA4C09Nmb4
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 549Please respect copyright.PENANAJXGL6NhpDu
the financial state her family was in.549Please respect copyright.PENANAnLx11QD2Wd
But now that she was with the McDonell 549Please respect copyright.PENANAuN0lXDRtaz
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life549Please respect copyright.PENANAs3kRNdOzxd
she has always wanted.549Please respect copyright.PENANAD7ruMo4PkJ
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.549Please respect copyright.PENANAEZyEre0LUa
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing549Please respect copyright.PENANA3lR8lglXLQ
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 549Please respect copyright.PENANAzj3NwRS5Dt
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.549Please respect copyright.PENANAmX9fIkHZv8
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.549Please respect copyright.PENANAX70nDJcihC
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"549Please respect copyright.PENANA6nBcQmL4pZ
"That would be awesome."549Please respect copyright.PENANAIQ3bYr2lve
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 549Please respect copyright.PENANAM6XMCavF1B
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 549Please respect copyright.PENANABWaH8QDkuP
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.549Please respect copyright.PENANAgkIpooxAb9
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 549Please respect copyright.PENANAWoEwxCmgcm
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 549Please respect copyright.PENANAgYaDJatAUL
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had549Please respect copyright.PENANAxp0bxbexNS
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 549Please respect copyright.PENANAAb39V2a0Yp
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.549Please respect copyright.PENANAX4E9u9YMpZ
Miranda.549Please respect copyright.PENANATHBf2yUPEU
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 549Please respect copyright.PENANACvmcTqubQq
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 549Please respect copyright.PENANApVqQpnOmag
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 549Please respect copyright.PENANAiC2OU5UpiO
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 549Please respect copyright.PENANA4eQuC6BXzy
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.549Please respect copyright.PENANAnE8466v5Tv
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 549Please respect copyright.PENANAB0A6TmYFwu
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 549Please respect copyright.PENANAKnMVY7VdF0
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 549Please respect copyright.PENANAbeLk4ovSTm
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 549Please respect copyright.PENANAinx0O6eYkX
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 549Please respect copyright.PENANAwDwS8qd4hS
she never ever discussed her life with them.549Please respect copyright.PENANAu85lu9JUqc
Could it be Miranda?549Please respect copyright.PENANASGMxPVU1AW
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She549Please respect copyright.PENANA4rYJ4WP5IN
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 549Please respect copyright.PENANAw9xRuqFhKl
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 549Please respect copyright.PENANAuF2f0WCZ1o
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.549Please respect copyright.PENANAWqFKmQREt6
And now she was calling Carly after all this549Please respect copyright.PENANATf5ECVaklY
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 549Please respect copyright.PENANAqrPqTfnbRI
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't549Please respect copyright.PENANAPFLQncZQfx
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her549Please respect copyright.PENANAsW3qXJHPbq
betrayal.549Please respect copyright.PENANAaSlMnYZ69e
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of549Please respect copyright.PENANAcwihY88gLT
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 549Please respect copyright.PENANAru4NZPplLC
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.549Please respect copyright.PENANA8fPqHfNy4l
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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