Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading559Please respect copyright.PENANASFKs0WdCtt
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 559Please respect copyright.PENANAQBX7iOhpe4
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 559Please respect copyright.PENANATPJHMCxTRg
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 559Please respect copyright.PENANAbB6kNrFZdd
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?559Please respect copyright.PENANAH3SecRiRhv
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college559Please respect copyright.PENANAAc7WywK3X1
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had559Please respect copyright.PENANAvWbySdSmcI
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 559Please respect copyright.PENANANwxPrNsE8Y
boss a call.559Please respect copyright.PENANAkfBnlYLefu
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.559Please respect copyright.PENANAc8HSyeGkUV
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."559Please respect copyright.PENANAHZBIFKl6oP
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."559Please respect copyright.PENANAe5e2skFHLF
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."559Please respect copyright.PENANARKfjpxXmWZ
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAe5dwLD1oOb
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 559Please respect copyright.PENANArpyNTNuhqy
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 559Please respect copyright.PENANAkte7JfmkxH
looked really tired and restless.559Please respect copyright.PENANAAMerZMRloG
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.559Please respect copyright.PENANAwQQN5Y5eso
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came559Please respect copyright.PENANAwPo8opA5sf
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 559Please respect copyright.PENANAQr5Yvz8Sn4
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 559Please respect copyright.PENANAgArjWnIUZ5
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 559Please respect copyright.PENANA6rMEBCo3X6
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 559Please respect copyright.PENANAPtRmsOQTHf
huge loss.559Please respect copyright.PENANAReGKe6Tx2l
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 559Please respect copyright.PENANAANl4hhaFEP
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 559Please respect copyright.PENANAosWNxjUpcZ
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."559Please respect copyright.PENANA4idtGIUfml
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."559Please respect copyright.PENANAfiCNCcr7Do
"What are you planning to do?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAPAVd44q3Gc
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."559Please respect copyright.PENANAimkxTCZemF
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 559Please respect copyright.PENANAybsTME8HFr
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 559Please respect copyright.PENANA2tdmOojaZq
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 559Please respect copyright.PENANAQt6lYwRmFQ
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.559Please respect copyright.PENANAQcTtxzPLID
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.559Please respect copyright.PENANAGXTS5wLdvt
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 559Please respect copyright.PENANAm65q1b7pcY
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 559Please respect copyright.PENANAfz8saaP7Sv
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 559Please respect copyright.PENANAhYSKISKLrM
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 559Please respect copyright.PENANA1W4H7aCZZJ
vacant space weren't as good as her.559Please respect copyright.PENANAQFOLT3IAtQ
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 559Please respect copyright.PENANAr4BGOGpiDc
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 559Please respect copyright.PENANAb6jSgPFzsE
lucky charm.559Please respect copyright.PENANAJA0xkzlb4i
And he needed her back real bad.559Please respect copyright.PENANAC4GBHOuPN8
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.559Please respect copyright.PENANAu9lbFCl7f4
"I have a job for you."559Please respect copyright.PENANAnhxIbZsEpv
***559Please respect copyright.PENANAvYupGct2PS
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.559Please respect copyright.PENANAO2su91GosL
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 559Please respect copyright.PENANAZIULZQeBHy
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 559Please respect copyright.PENANA7MFboWUxlA
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.559Please respect copyright.PENANAR3Yc8n8qEi
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.559Please respect copyright.PENANABVGN6wj6CK
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.559Please respect copyright.PENANABxpuRtKWfM
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 559Please respect copyright.PENANAqp4TbSRtdk
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't559Please respect copyright.PENANAu91lYXbizs
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 559Please respect copyright.PENANAHT1tV6cCp8
serious.559Please respect copyright.PENANA09eKbm66mp
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.559Please respect copyright.PENANAYiBLgd5KXm
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.559Please respect copyright.PENANAWvGFsZE9zi
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."559Please respect copyright.PENANAekMWDtwnky
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.559Please respect copyright.PENANAn9nmgJ4IQe
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."559Please respect copyright.PENANAM67LShgmL5
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.559Please respect copyright.PENANAjxpx51dD1B
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're559Please respect copyright.PENANAJcgCBv8VPD
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 559Please respect copyright.PENANAxKeby0a2je
between the two of you considering what happened."559Please respect copyright.PENANA66N8hKV3wj
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.559Please respect copyright.PENANAmtcjrNI0kG
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."559Please respect copyright.PENANApuGTE1N3yw
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"559Please respect copyright.PENANANq9kvgYvwm
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."559Please respect copyright.PENANAX1DQuplwfy
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.559Please respect copyright.PENANActPOVXlQzF
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."559Please respect copyright.PENANAMcO8PDkdlD
"And you never apologised for it," said 559Please respect copyright.PENANAnQoNakU2OQ
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 559Please respect copyright.PENANAG8DSHO5iTo
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 559Please respect copyright.PENANA5p4YWvi8z1
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."559Please respect copyright.PENANAaaffeYYtaP
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 559Please respect copyright.PENANADhuQVqXJCI
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 559Please respect copyright.PENANAju5y0yw4WH
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 559Please respect copyright.PENANAfxFoQg9ixn
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 559Please respect copyright.PENANAsxPFlmid5g
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 559Please respect copyright.PENANAyLcbURrwXs
for what happened to her.559Please respect copyright.PENANAOYvCk79njc
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.559Please respect copyright.PENANA8Afs0J6vQL
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 559Please respect copyright.PENANAfLsOFaVqwz
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 559Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZX1ehZbja
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAJeZsgXIeKY
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If559Please respect copyright.PENANAAbIRpJ2Dei
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 559Please respect copyright.PENANABsYapdjVI5
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 559Please respect copyright.PENANApFbaJoF2R4
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 559Please respect copyright.PENANASc9PvsGBqa
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 559Please respect copyright.PENANAuYezKcjwyj
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 559Please respect copyright.PENANAJmnD7ml6o7
back at the club.559Please respect copyright.PENANAE6zdhbBIbm
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 559Please respect copyright.PENANAevnLlRnIqE
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 559Please respect copyright.PENANAaYe3Fbs8gT
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 559Please respect copyright.PENANA0gKWpLR1Pu
sisters completely.559Please respect copyright.PENANAPPCkDeiFKX
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."559Please respect copyright.PENANAAwkyeinG8K
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 559Please respect copyright.PENANAa8f8Ya7gwh
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.559Please respect copyright.PENANALvpYuwPgj0
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.559Please respect copyright.PENANAs1tnRKEKWa
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 559Please respect copyright.PENANARig9JOmtb6
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 559Please respect copyright.PENANAFPQll7Ja8q
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 559Please respect copyright.PENANAFHOGWf88UL
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 559Please respect copyright.PENANAfKcJ6f88mo
club, not him.559Please respect copyright.PENANA3z6udr1UCi
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."559Please respect copyright.PENANAYLtLPV6kjB
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.559Please respect copyright.PENANAbtQUksanUQ
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."559Please respect copyright.PENANAeWTvATonUq
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two559Please respect copyright.PENANAzGcRERM3cz
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 559Please respect copyright.PENANALax3gCk3r5
at each other yet, have you?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAHb01CEVS2Q
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.559Please respect copyright.PENANAREOosWjZek
"No," they answered at the same time.559Please respect copyright.PENANASDjLuNmfK2
"Great. That's good to know."559Please respect copyright.PENANADy4wLXNkdH
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.559Please respect copyright.PENANAGrqBFUyyZi
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.559Please respect copyright.PENANALNxIwd9dWf
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.559Please respect copyright.PENANAualkc9wmqq
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take559Please respect copyright.PENANAESRzRSlY0T
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."559Please respect copyright.PENANA9Qzn1DsNFv
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.559Please respect copyright.PENANAfHvLHag5bk
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."559Please respect copyright.PENANAW94dvqeIGy
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"559Please respect copyright.PENANAoBIXY6yjop
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 559Please respect copyright.PENANAv0nfG9pAga
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 559Please respect copyright.PENANAl4XpgoKDGZ
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't559Please respect copyright.PENANAMzTgLD8Wgn
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 559Please respect copyright.PENANAXAhd645NFC
long."559Please respect copyright.PENANAABbGblEeCT
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.559Please respect copyright.PENANAsfE0XrcTYL
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.559Please respect copyright.PENANAQfAjVwgGbw
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."559Please respect copyright.PENANAFDXdcw2c8e
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.559Please respect copyright.PENANAuPHYFfzWbT
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.559Please respect copyright.PENANAca9Vi0hEJI
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.559Please respect copyright.PENANAdNpcl2T3HW
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.559Please respect copyright.PENANAZKZRnzYnQ6
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that559Please respect copyright.PENANASOZsBJOXZ4
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 559Please respect copyright.PENANAIY22iArt9x
Not like this. Something was wrong.559Please respect copyright.PENANAPwMHmKtKWt
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.559Please respect copyright.PENANA9IRKjRjp4Q
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 559Please respect copyright.PENANAIkWB19AhY2
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that559Please respect copyright.PENANAe4gLVxmdzZ
embarrassed?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAn3LcIBz3qW
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 559Please respect copyright.PENANAadPHLkyC08
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her559Please respect copyright.PENANAkW0FWSx1aw
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.559Please respect copyright.PENANAuBYdpq4StS
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 559Please respect copyright.PENANAqtCbmZp4qc
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 559Please respect copyright.PENANAFIiiw7TvUo
today?"559Please respect copyright.PENANA8NrUr5MgYJ
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 559Please respect copyright.PENANABGIM5EDZPV
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 559Please respect copyright.PENANA8aLKr13QbZ
you want."559Please respect copyright.PENANAEFmBpXuFUX
"It worked for you, didn't it?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAdgPsCpdrmx
"What do you mean?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAs7WtslKhPZ
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 559Please respect copyright.PENANA3FbcyIDkUf
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 559Please respect copyright.PENANA4GhilO3OFM
sister."559Please respect copyright.PENANAgjY8JltR4U
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."559Please respect copyright.PENANAxJXsVwVU8d
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."559Please respect copyright.PENANAKyHrqMFtXH
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."559Please respect copyright.PENANAlvWZivc005
"I'm just speaking the truth."559Please respect copyright.PENANAq5dGyzBzLL
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."559Please respect copyright.PENANATRJ3pehiRa
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."559Please respect copyright.PENANAgfQTa3CcEO
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."559Please respect copyright.PENANAE0KKSdiafX
"I was protecting my sister."559Please respect copyright.PENANAFXBm3u3ucs
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 559Please respect copyright.PENANAkN5bWlUJVt
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 559Please respect copyright.PENANA1zDLfl0Hgr
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."559Please respect copyright.PENANAnzcHdxyUBm
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 559Please respect copyright.PENANAINPZudwaaY
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.559Please respect copyright.PENANAJpNSIoiqbe
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 559Please respect copyright.PENANAR52vHtToQH
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 559Please respect copyright.PENANALLXi5MotEK
betray you like Carly betrayed me."559Please respect copyright.PENANAUXijbqiagw
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 559Please respect copyright.PENANA84bMjzZwjh
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 559Please respect copyright.PENANAkmLaMB5VHy
crystal glass.559Please respect copyright.PENANAcZWCcrHaFm
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 559Please respect copyright.PENANAnqj1CpNo9f
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 559Please respect copyright.PENANAxYsOHH1MOK
in this situation right now."559Please respect copyright.PENANAIPENyYzBQC
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 559Please respect copyright.PENANAuyPlr6i6G7
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 559Please respect copyright.PENANAeJtzSbsIVf
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 559Please respect copyright.PENANAWpj5ZZqiCs
actions.559Please respect copyright.PENANAFPew275WcI
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.559Please respect copyright.PENANAPbHsUc6jCf
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 559Please respect copyright.PENANAofNC4cikRo
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 559Please respect copyright.PENANAkCNbWgJ75V
near Carly."559Please respect copyright.PENANAYYQ8yk0u7f
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."559Please respect copyright.PENANA2yzQPJnE5e
"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......"559Please respect copyright.PENANAcdccg1hR7V
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 559Please respect copyright.PENANAleAcGkK2vH
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting559Please respect copyright.PENANAnfqW50n1RF
Carly, she would be insulting herself.559Please respect copyright.PENANAVSRVtwcUgo
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.559Please respect copyright.PENANAB9K1xNFYSW
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAxuuVccjkj8
"That would never happen."559Please respect copyright.PENANAppqTb2Jm0L
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."559Please respect copyright.PENANAWRyivpM5Zy
"A fool in love, yes."559Please respect copyright.PENANApzQY0VxJw9
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."559Please respect copyright.PENANA8cAMiJktEB
"Why? Because you don't like me?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAbAemvD936V
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.559Please respect copyright.PENANA4nahL3F59T
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 559Please respect copyright.PENANA2pWOblmumq
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 559Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3H1RfxzSe
and my accident that she would ever change."559Please respect copyright.PENANAU1I3DKj3dX
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."559Please respect copyright.PENANAqpRhpUtGkE
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,559Please respect copyright.PENANAEggTq4xhfi
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."559Please respect copyright.PENANAJCJcY6UdpK
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?559Please respect copyright.PENANAClnoXHXbHx
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.559Please respect copyright.PENANAfwpNpkYGGN
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"559Please respect copyright.PENANAtuUufofiys
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 559Please respect copyright.PENANA2P7YMGdieh
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 559Please respect copyright.PENANAZ9H1vTyPeJ
puzzled.559Please respect copyright.PENANAtyPsHHyt64
***559Please respect copyright.PENANAihXLfPwovZ
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 559Please respect copyright.PENANAiIgSX6jHwb
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 559Please respect copyright.PENANA1FhpylibOu
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.559Please respect copyright.PENANAWl6EMFN3Fd
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."559Please respect copyright.PENANATc1QAmasvU
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 559Please respect copyright.PENANAy3yC0PWsmr
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 559Please respect copyright.PENANAKozLgyaZgb
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 559Please respect copyright.PENANA4n9njxPIWz
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 559Please respect copyright.PENANABgFyirgH8s
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.559Please respect copyright.PENANAtk6CJQqdjl
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 559Please respect copyright.PENANAz6ZV4ynYKs
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 559Please respect copyright.PENANAK3TimWrVay
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 559Please respect copyright.PENANAPW63QnDbhw
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 559Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4eyF888C4
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 559Please respect copyright.PENANAKLJXidGDhC
McDonell should be.559Please respect copyright.PENANAaxhN3BDHZ3
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:559Please respect copyright.PENANAmLEsgjmGfZ
"Our family has been successfully with the 559Please respect copyright.PENANA09uOUlf8Tm
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 559Please respect copyright.PENANArBvU3tvNFQ
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 559Please respect copyright.PENANAOzBMhV653R
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 559Please respect copyright.PENANA8BWnILnSz9
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in559Please respect copyright.PENANAPFdCZyVxys
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 559Please respect copyright.PENANAhKtzQHvS4g
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 559Please respect copyright.PENANAdmICADXpNV
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 559Please respect copyright.PENANAmHy2WfEm6P
especially from my brother. He is so kind."559Please respect copyright.PENANAQf7TPAchHE
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help559Please respect copyright.PENANAiPNQLl4lOF
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't559Please respect copyright.PENANAKqP8ozsDM7
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 559Please respect copyright.PENANA2q7qYpYA1A
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role559Please respect copyright.PENANA2oauI3cAwP
model.559Please respect copyright.PENANACrkN93vdOT
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 559Please respect copyright.PENANAKqTpTktPW6
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 559Please respect copyright.PENANArCJgb7JIvS
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 559Please respect copyright.PENANA8Li9NboGeL
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big559Please respect copyright.PENANAmYSyABxstV
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 559Please respect copyright.PENANADVUeh8sPB4
the financial state her family was in.559Please respect copyright.PENANAsF8e6G7qAf
But now that she was with the McDonell 559Please respect copyright.PENANARjRo6A1ZdP
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life559Please respect copyright.PENANA8gdXaBWySj
she has always wanted.559Please respect copyright.PENANApGCknWQFbj
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.559Please respect copyright.PENANAUtpOm3dPiC
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing559Please respect copyright.PENANAfrVYXuJrAb
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 559Please respect copyright.PENANA3Gb35vLxyE
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.559Please respect copyright.PENANAq4LvIQ9Qoh
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.559Please respect copyright.PENANADnDSIOhmOs
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"559Please respect copyright.PENANA3osOxcHZ1d
"That would be awesome."559Please respect copyright.PENANARXVssvCmCL
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 559Please respect copyright.PENANAhNYRCev2Hh
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 559Please respect copyright.PENANAi0mImdyvIt
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.559Please respect copyright.PENANA7BxtVd4sl1
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 559Please respect copyright.PENANAaGsPkGR0wn
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 559Please respect copyright.PENANAdBuGva6lHZ
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had559Please respect copyright.PENANAxKADGTEuft
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 559Please respect copyright.PENANAkwFWz9ETZh
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.559Please respect copyright.PENANAho7GRN9U6Y
Miranda.559Please respect copyright.PENANAzg6RxlfskR
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 559Please respect copyright.PENANA04uVt1GZiB
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 559Please respect copyright.PENANAemh6Ls9Ekb
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 559Please respect copyright.PENANAbs2OrfU7xz
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 559Please respect copyright.PENANAXKEWIM8Ys8
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.559Please respect copyright.PENANAfcK6PoBwhV
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 559Please respect copyright.PENANAtnewFoyunN
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 559Please respect copyright.PENANA0OeRmDOQ31
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 559Please respect copyright.PENANAAGRpitp5kN
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 559Please respect copyright.PENANAUEEVI96bg9
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 559Please respect copyright.PENANAKcxJer1hRg
she never ever discussed her life with them.559Please respect copyright.PENANAqFcEeG6EvB
Could it be Miranda?559Please respect copyright.PENANAtPfpnww1vT
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She559Please respect copyright.PENANAJzFUaOCdQz
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 559Please respect copyright.PENANAXbqCkfkewr
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 559Please respect copyright.PENANApfhfrPFVy5
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.559Please respect copyright.PENANAUpaj7bFLMG
And now she was calling Carly after all this559Please respect copyright.PENANADPMQPsUWne
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 559Please respect copyright.PENANAuB2mEhhHJO
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't559Please respect copyright.PENANAOYU7sVBAZ2
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her559Please respect copyright.PENANAEs1CNvVKiA
betrayal.559Please respect copyright.PENANAJgyqoR46Pr
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of559Please respect copyright.PENANAPC2VuVMAcK
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 559Please respect copyright.PENANAUF3kjZ4pxK
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.559Please respect copyright.PENANAzTWAsWS7Gc
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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