Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading818Please respect copyright.PENANAkSv2TmjoEl
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 818Please respect copyright.PENANAunKbeZYHRh
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 818Please respect copyright.PENANAGYx0QMXU95
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 818Please respect copyright.PENANApwj12rTf8i
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?818Please respect copyright.PENANAbo0gvZpHuY
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college818Please respect copyright.PENANAYnAHbgMFgJ
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had818Please respect copyright.PENANAKbkhToL9hT
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 818Please respect copyright.PENANAj3vpqfwBVY
boss a call.818Please respect copyright.PENANAKKb64wcszn
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.818Please respect copyright.PENANASOjBG2EGNr
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."818Please respect copyright.PENANAooyYdqwQW6
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."818Please respect copyright.PENANA2MqoLW86Zv
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."818Please respect copyright.PENANAB4zTTZTjpL
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAk1J7i1upLM
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 818Please respect copyright.PENANA6SbjD3ZGfp
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 818Please respect copyright.PENANAIqdYbMiF6y
looked really tired and restless.818Please respect copyright.PENANA4OShTGjKUW
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.818Please respect copyright.PENANAIrNEvOaSmM
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came818Please respect copyright.PENANAkWZZ15Li5z
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 818Please respect copyright.PENANAU7IbAzp0hF
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 818Please respect copyright.PENANAfegeDPZVPx
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 818Please respect copyright.PENANAH1gNv8jOUF
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 818Please respect copyright.PENANAGuJnrRJpXM
huge loss.818Please respect copyright.PENANA8XhHqXvcHh
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 818Please respect copyright.PENANA54lvYI13OQ
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 818Please respect copyright.PENANAWPDBo72Lmu
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."818Please respect copyright.PENANAq0bPZgXoe8
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."818Please respect copyright.PENANAYdbrBTUx6K
"What are you planning to do?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAXDXR6S6T3l
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."818Please respect copyright.PENANAhQZEq7PqPZ
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 818Please respect copyright.PENANA3Hf6OBzGMb
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 818Please respect copyright.PENANAopWKbL85ZB
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 818Please respect copyright.PENANAWixkJDLyOm
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.818Please respect copyright.PENANACGUgeQTQZL
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.818Please respect copyright.PENANAX7Ysk9EmCT
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 818Please respect copyright.PENANA0tsIVsLNaL
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 818Please respect copyright.PENANAesoYZHHHlY
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 818Please respect copyright.PENANAsnkFMbhe9c
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 818Please respect copyright.PENANAQQOnS2EpR6
vacant space weren't as good as her.818Please respect copyright.PENANAXbVaEOECzI
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 818Please respect copyright.PENANAcWrSjLwSbL
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 818Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8PHi9KrE7
lucky charm.818Please respect copyright.PENANAQQctLSSb1c
And he needed her back real bad.818Please respect copyright.PENANA8YCoyHsk3W
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.818Please respect copyright.PENANAH3jytPBFb7
"I have a job for you."818Please respect copyright.PENANAWC2kVy9SEr
***818Please respect copyright.PENANA5hY9VazKlh
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.818Please respect copyright.PENANANJz0u0MsBI
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 818Please respect copyright.PENANAsLl7jehJb1
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 818Please respect copyright.PENANAj6SrwyJdJv
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.818Please respect copyright.PENANACR4HfJ4R7o
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.818Please respect copyright.PENANAQUlPK0mY3J
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.818Please respect copyright.PENANAksQbOqrIUO
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 818Please respect copyright.PENANAR7Wv4ihLyw
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't818Please respect copyright.PENANA3TiKXkqvaQ
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 818Please respect copyright.PENANAI59GcvyPaT
serious.818Please respect copyright.PENANAyPvxb5fS0A
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.818Please respect copyright.PENANAU4k0OtqBPa
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.818Please respect copyright.PENANA79hYP01y9x
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."818Please respect copyright.PENANAq2uTZgx3Dl
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.818Please respect copyright.PENANAgkcyJuEp1O
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."818Please respect copyright.PENANA5esbV7xU8t
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.818Please respect copyright.PENANAitNRf69qvp
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're818Please respect copyright.PENANASyXNd1X7Rd
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 818Please respect copyright.PENANARebx4vyjxe
between the two of you considering what happened."818Please respect copyright.PENANAyJBF4kzfeX
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.818Please respect copyright.PENANAWZktf5aV2q
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."818Please respect copyright.PENANAV4FwLrHmLc
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAj3bHiLtq5Z
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."818Please respect copyright.PENANArSF4fRp4OE
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.818Please respect copyright.PENANA4XSziIBe53
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."818Please respect copyright.PENANAWoCgsrBuVm
"And you never apologised for it," said 818Please respect copyright.PENANAu8BYABGe1M
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 818Please respect copyright.PENANAcJKTHPcuDp
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 818Please respect copyright.PENANARbVLrvEHZO
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."818Please respect copyright.PENANAJRE4ulclY6
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 818Please respect copyright.PENANAR4foN3SK5m
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 818Please respect copyright.PENANAYNGC4QdZxE
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 818Please respect copyright.PENANAr7GBgNcUay
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 818Please respect copyright.PENANAuf4A55PK0v
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 818Please respect copyright.PENANAfAFh57M0rU
for what happened to her.818Please respect copyright.PENANAbCNDKdHrMW
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.818Please respect copyright.PENANA69kQ6Fukrg
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 818Please respect copyright.PENANAnbRMOBwNf0
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 818Please respect copyright.PENANAMyGOHvlF5B
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA2RjJQG1CRr
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If818Please respect copyright.PENANAX8VTIp4Eil
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 818Please respect copyright.PENANA4KeT1Q53iZ
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 818Please respect copyright.PENANApExsu1TAAI
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 818Please respect copyright.PENANASX9Ntb3Odt
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 818Please respect copyright.PENANAl9NaNwHtU0
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 818Please respect copyright.PENANA7o3KOZKWus
back at the club.818Please respect copyright.PENANAfrCLRgaQjF
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 818Please respect copyright.PENANAjzURNMPIJa
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 818Please respect copyright.PENANAXnM9vUaZNE
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 818Please respect copyright.PENANA54FlLF8Pf9
sisters completely.818Please respect copyright.PENANAky4CmOOGsT
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."818Please respect copyright.PENANAqDQRSWMARL
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 818Please respect copyright.PENANADQ655NQvRF
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.818Please respect copyright.PENANAdI5lxsH78z
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.818Please respect copyright.PENANAH4NJ2YjF6W
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 818Please respect copyright.PENANA9fOhQwUY9S
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 818Please respect copyright.PENANA06khSlF5i1
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 818Please respect copyright.PENANASXCTBnoW7q
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 818Please respect copyright.PENANANyMlUSu6iw
club, not him.818Please respect copyright.PENANAp7hA4Cip6c
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."818Please respect copyright.PENANA45RiynnW4R
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.818Please respect copyright.PENANAq6C2RVBMR0
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."818Please respect copyright.PENANA6Z6zWi0hYy
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two818Please respect copyright.PENANA7I3TVtC4eA
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 818Please respect copyright.PENANAFEjSOdwST4
at each other yet, have you?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAzTvGETuHsP
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.818Please respect copyright.PENANA2MvgzaPvc1
"No," they answered at the same time.818Please respect copyright.PENANAwwFfTEO4Jm
"Great. That's good to know."818Please respect copyright.PENANApkUAHKP66C
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxgbewP3V6r
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxE1VU1zaCw
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.818Please respect copyright.PENANAPetMs1sRED
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take818Please respect copyright.PENANAXk03G8Z6Pf
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."818Please respect copyright.PENANAlTjijYeC4F
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.818Please respect copyright.PENANAhUPRXuXPZg
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."818Please respect copyright.PENANAyDc0ujkgct
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"818Please respect copyright.PENANAwmiyZ8U73l
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 818Please respect copyright.PENANAufmjWoabdk
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 818Please respect copyright.PENANAF4PJZan6Rh
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't818Please respect copyright.PENANAGVBDZWVSE2
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 818Please respect copyright.PENANAke1ftwRpzp
long."818Please respect copyright.PENANAp9rckOUhPQ
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.818Please respect copyright.PENANAV2yiQPoz7r
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.818Please respect copyright.PENANA61vkQ3IEe0
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."818Please respect copyright.PENANAkK2yaG2wPF
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.818Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0TGcUu4qO
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.818Please respect copyright.PENANAmAMcStxJeb
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.818Please respect copyright.PENANARh9tTmzDBF
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.818Please respect copyright.PENANAuoL7d6GpeQ
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that818Please respect copyright.PENANAOg3MbmzPn2
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 818Please respect copyright.PENANALI9fVePjop
Not like this. Something was wrong.818Please respect copyright.PENANAzcEUyfxbgP
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.818Please respect copyright.PENANAvns21XjdQa
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 818Please respect copyright.PENANAQXvRohTVB2
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that818Please respect copyright.PENANAPgbduxVdMk
embarrassed?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAldLJGzbedF
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 818Please respect copyright.PENANA1fdJfI89iG
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her818Please respect copyright.PENANAxkPI73qjCB
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.818Please respect copyright.PENANAv6H2JPHuRR
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 818Please respect copyright.PENANAkAIKC4UNtG
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 818Please respect copyright.PENANATaCdE9Ij8O
today?"818Please respect copyright.PENANACS60sst0bL
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 818Please respect copyright.PENANAM8T4r2MXLq
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 818Please respect copyright.PENANA7tRZ0K3TBF
you want."818Please respect copyright.PENANAKVDq8fJ16s
"It worked for you, didn't it?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAQEu124KiTc
"What do you mean?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA5pGJgIkSIB
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 818Please respect copyright.PENANAy2qDKpwV9Z
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 818Please respect copyright.PENANA2XnitnWBgk
sister."818Please respect copyright.PENANAPR0nddr2u9
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."818Please respect copyright.PENANAJnLoKBLhfm
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."818Please respect copyright.PENANAeTmqOOdhl1
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."818Please respect copyright.PENANAXcdIpDlZ5i
"I'm just speaking the truth."818Please respect copyright.PENANA4Zjb5Yr6wA
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."818Please respect copyright.PENANAHzS5KQwCq1
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."818Please respect copyright.PENANASXLtBBYvao
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."818Please respect copyright.PENANA8zKTQs7ohC
"I was protecting my sister."818Please respect copyright.PENANAqXmaa1bQYp
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 818Please respect copyright.PENANABQMc0W40rP
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 818Please respect copyright.PENANAqZT6Pn29Uv
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."818Please respect copyright.PENANAYOLeXjizgD
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 818Please respect copyright.PENANAJqnhmxijSk
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.818Please respect copyright.PENANAIyX2n2w7R8
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 818Please respect copyright.PENANAnzKwQsdWXg
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 818Please respect copyright.PENANAZhDbB3xg12
betray you like Carly betrayed me."818Please respect copyright.PENANAumuR90kDqs
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 818Please respect copyright.PENANAYuiDd3L5FM
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 818Please respect copyright.PENANAQInIAprszo
crystal glass.818Please respect copyright.PENANAY0N7N4mbuC
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 818Please respect copyright.PENANA5AQcO3TzMy
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 818Please respect copyright.PENANAr7osz770zt
in this situation right now."818Please respect copyright.PENANArc0zsfDWLU
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 818Please respect copyright.PENANAQJKQEvBEAj
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 818Please respect copyright.PENANALkyPPZBcqz
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 818Please respect copyright.PENANAn2ZBDTaw8K
actions.818Please respect copyright.PENANAwJNh13zcnt
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.818Please respect copyright.PENANADTIXQf4sfr
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 818Please respect copyright.PENANAJJfZD8zMjQ
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 818Please respect copyright.PENANAhS3lMhGEDw
near Carly."818Please respect copyright.PENANAUEyUnWjEbI
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."818Please respect copyright.PENANAkpT2am84tJ
"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......"818Please respect copyright.PENANAkwbIsD8rrc
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 818Please respect copyright.PENANAy5roAWByUF
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting818Please respect copyright.PENANAkzdMZPCIW1
Carly, she would be insulting herself.818Please respect copyright.PENANALrYsP0LD9S
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.818Please respect copyright.PENANAqiUyqEulry
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"818Please respect copyright.PENANA1UXN0z1AIi
"That would never happen."818Please respect copyright.PENANA3XA9Gqarxd
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."818Please respect copyright.PENANAiIWYBiKKNg
"A fool in love, yes."818Please respect copyright.PENANAWN0s5mDoW4
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."818Please respect copyright.PENANAxwlUTTwHUA
"Why? Because you don't like me?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAWzEnAIYsZp
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.818Please respect copyright.PENANABRipBFx16P
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 818Please respect copyright.PENANANDZ0lV4x0F
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 818Please respect copyright.PENANAXXhYRPjBxM
and my accident that she would ever change."818Please respect copyright.PENANAOQJVMtTgUU
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."818Please respect copyright.PENANAqJI4wzPlHx
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,818Please respect copyright.PENANAOi8aoYW3oC
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."818Please respect copyright.PENANA6cp7jwwvvs
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?818Please respect copyright.PENANAqlaf6yb0Zi
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.818Please respect copyright.PENANAOuYOpmGQap
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAyfR977FvvJ
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 818Please respect copyright.PENANASTsoLSkASs
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 818Please respect copyright.PENANAkus7yonS5g
puzzled.818Please respect copyright.PENANAyD2a5paBf4
***818Please respect copyright.PENANAPW3Uz2UHbK
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 818Please respect copyright.PENANAhWs5k5O4yC
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 818Please respect copyright.PENANAHf6cMKSTRG
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.818Please respect copyright.PENANAtRtuBuHy6R
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."818Please respect copyright.PENANA7PTnG0JIYK
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 818Please respect copyright.PENANATkI9z0FGtR
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 818Please respect copyright.PENANAEN7NwGWATw
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 818Please respect copyright.PENANANQFtDDDCVd
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 818Please respect copyright.PENANAfjgytkP8JW
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.818Please respect copyright.PENANAWf5kfWnJKI
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 818Please respect copyright.PENANA8HwA4BDHHR
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 818Please respect copyright.PENANAOFj16kGQ6x
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 818Please respect copyright.PENANA1ERsvZbJh8
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 818Please respect copyright.PENANAsl8cDjcW4y
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 818Please respect copyright.PENANAZh20IYy1F5
McDonell should be.818Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZbvnwdfbS
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:818Please respect copyright.PENANAIqZ85uM5Ug
"Our family has been successfully with the 818Please respect copyright.PENANAPcHRRqwaMK
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 818Please respect copyright.PENANAOMLbklPbtI
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 818Please respect copyright.PENANA0BLuV24I8w
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 818Please respect copyright.PENANASvyI72OLjR
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in818Please respect copyright.PENANA7CCl4ZxVol
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 818Please respect copyright.PENANAYf4LKQEuk9
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 818Please respect copyright.PENANAV4JrmVmqwY
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 818Please respect copyright.PENANAeLDmenTcIM
especially from my brother. He is so kind."818Please respect copyright.PENANAZe9iJ37ypr
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help818Please respect copyright.PENANA3Z87rsmt3t
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't818Please respect copyright.PENANAzDZOsm8Wfu
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 818Please respect copyright.PENANAT5bZrvyVWz
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role818Please respect copyright.PENANAZMy6RSnxDB
model.818Please respect copyright.PENANAmcilg0VKW9
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 818Please respect copyright.PENANAddfxA8caHA
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 818Please respect copyright.PENANAub0c9yK3IG
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 818Please respect copyright.PENANAM4yJbT6My5
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big818Please respect copyright.PENANAlHT9bCEP9S
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 818Please respect copyright.PENANAzrtLs9TuM0
the financial state her family was in.818Please respect copyright.PENANA0kpB4Vtwff
But now that she was with the McDonell 818Please respect copyright.PENANAuTINhTofiu
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life818Please respect copyright.PENANAPiM4r6nnOn
she has always wanted.818Please respect copyright.PENANA6OtfEUgtZ6
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.818Please respect copyright.PENANADZRDHWan4H
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing818Please respect copyright.PENANAfFH05hoigL
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 818Please respect copyright.PENANApuDUBHqMjp
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.818Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4XDyU4fjS
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.818Please respect copyright.PENANA4ihfys23Lj
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"818Please respect copyright.PENANAJYWRpSapdn
"That would be awesome."818Please respect copyright.PENANAg4G4O2CPEN
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 818Please respect copyright.PENANALCrFcUjOgG
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 818Please respect copyright.PENANAs9ofLiDcay
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.818Please respect copyright.PENANAHhqfmXAw9D
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 818Please respect copyright.PENANA9JoZXGxxIx
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 818Please respect copyright.PENANAt6AefIsRDU
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had818Please respect copyright.PENANAEka0RhQ6ME
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 818Please respect copyright.PENANAfAZxZv9qjI
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.818Please respect copyright.PENANApF6swfbkYZ
Miranda.818Please respect copyright.PENANAlAxhdAMVDI
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 818Please respect copyright.PENANAOqftBhH9Ko
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 818Please respect copyright.PENANAeXG5uv6xAD
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 818Please respect copyright.PENANANi77Msocb5
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 818Please respect copyright.PENANAmFd5fIMgHf
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.818Please respect copyright.PENANALrK4sjGc8R
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 818Please respect copyright.PENANAx2QKKzjvUh
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 818Please respect copyright.PENANAagXwnq9nyF
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 818Please respect copyright.PENANA8JWEZXv0ec
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 818Please respect copyright.PENANANGsnq7yBc5
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 818Please respect copyright.PENANA4iGguStYAp
she never ever discussed her life with them.818Please respect copyright.PENANA9CMMhjNMXv
Could it be Miranda?818Please respect copyright.PENANAWY1NGIe89Q
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She818Please respect copyright.PENANA1XzObRVmHm
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 818Please respect copyright.PENANAo3P8MYOVJ8
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 818Please respect copyright.PENANAIu11LuSWwG
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.818Please respect copyright.PENANAyHTijkSjap
And now she was calling Carly after all this818Please respect copyright.PENANAw8BDq8YJ7X
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 818Please respect copyright.PENANADZwipE6bkl
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't818Please respect copyright.PENANAbGSoKXTDtp
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her818Please respect copyright.PENANAUMTEYMcjcF
betrayal.818Please respect copyright.PENANAxMAVNfk0Je
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of818Please respect copyright.PENANAe8VEjO0l8p
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 818Please respect copyright.PENANA9czWUHT95J
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.818Please respect copyright.PENANAN4aMpe547c
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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