Miranda looked round the lecture theater one last time before heading785Please respect copyright.PENANA9BhAgaXBon
out of the door. She couldn't help but feel strange that Carly wasn't 785Please respect copyright.PENANAnYo2dkPh6f
here. The past two weeks were understandable. She had to wait for her 785Please respect copyright.PENANA6QtPEDhEBl
sister to recover and that there was a funeral. She thought Carly would 785Please respect copyright.PENANAmTvY8leCL1
be back by now. Did her mother's passing affect her that much?785Please respect copyright.PENANAACmNBY7UnR
As she walked out of the lecture theater with the rest of her college785Please respect copyright.PENANAUFo8pSvuTp
mates, she went down the hall and straight to the ladies' room. She had785Please respect copyright.PENANAyNQgEQebrp
another lecture in ten minutes. That gave her enough time to give her 785Please respect copyright.PENANAFGNrmBvIWw
boss a call.785Please respect copyright.PENANA8yUC95bvXw
"What is it, Miranda?" Mr Walters asked as soon as he picked up.785Please respect copyright.PENANALrlq5BpkLl
"She didn't come for lectures today," said Miranda. "And she is still not picking up my calls."785Please respect copyright.PENANAMTTSeatsme
"Maybe she's still mourning her mother's death as usual."785Please respect copyright.PENANAXL6jDkPuVn
"Are you serious? Don't you think something is going on? Because I do."785Please respect copyright.PENANAncPymutCmA
"Since when are you ever concerned about Carly's whereabouts?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAeF9MZSdQb5
"Ever since things stopped going well at the club after she left," 785Please respect copyright.PENANA1Wy4RopERq
Miranda answers as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. She 785Please respect copyright.PENANAkr3x0xogd1
looked really tired and restless.785Please respect copyright.PENANA0G2BFUZgPj
"I know, I know," there was frustration in Mr Walters' voice. He too was just as tired as she was.785Please respect copyright.PENANAgKRupOnt8m
Since Carly left the club, there was a hustle and bustle when it came785Please respect copyright.PENANAO6OE5eWvct
to working there for Miranda and the other workers. The customers 785Please respect copyright.PENANAEPeHpI6cvj
weren't happy that Carly wasn't working there anymore, and it became 785Please respect copyright.PENANA0yj9xakgU0
difficult to please them. And just like that, most of their faithful 785Please respect copyright.PENANAVbBi5NoWlY
customers even stopped showing up to the club. And that amounted to a 785Please respect copyright.PENANA0Nc2IUFrtl
huge loss.785Please respect copyright.PENANAy7TTD35mP9
"What should we do now?" Miranda asked. "I tried asking a few of her 785Please respect copyright.PENANAGWBDHQoluP
close friends if they have been in any contact with her, but they 785Please respect copyright.PENANAMIXNyPJier
haven't. It will be difficult to find her now."785Please respect copyright.PENANAeEWXUIri2n
"I'll handle it. There will be no need for you to try and look for her."785Please respect copyright.PENANALObr42jXBy
"What are you planning to do?"785Please respect copyright.PENANADF012akowx
"You just concentrate on your studies, Miranda. Just as I said, I'll handle it."785Please respect copyright.PENANAtdYifoie16
Mr Walters cut the call and Miranda stared at her phone wondering 785Please respect copyright.PENANAhhAOuAwPqY
what her boss could be planning now. If there was one thing she knew 785Please respect copyright.PENANA4aBkW69l39
about him, is that he is willing to do anything to get what he wants. 785Please respect copyright.PENANAANlxr64szl
Even if it means doing so in the most dangerous way possible.785Please respect copyright.PENANAYDwNvPiOBj
Miranda quickly gathered herself and walked out of the ladies' room to go for her next lecture.785Please respect copyright.PENANAiQXKjewtj3
As for Mr Walters, he was in his office at the club tapping his 785Please respect copyright.PENANAZtO4UZCzsM
fingers on the table, thinking of what to do next. He needed Carly back 785Please respect copyright.PENANABUV3hWf9kX
no matter what. Life without her proved to be quite useless. He thought 785Please respect copyright.PENANAMC0Slbcv9y
of replacing her, but all the women who had come here to fill up her 785Please respect copyright.PENANAiVmHI1iERg
vacant space weren't as good as her.785Please respect copyright.PENANARUjxLKT0gS
When Carly was working at the club, business was booming. But now, 785Please respect copyright.PENANAc7ueEApGeo
things weren't the same as it was with her around. She was more of his 785Please respect copyright.PENANA4pyi1jJQeD
lucky charm.785Please respect copyright.PENANA0y4W5i0noI
And he needed her back real bad.785Please respect copyright.PENANAPwtj7GbwAx
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.785Please respect copyright.PENANAjAcZtrLb9X
"I have a job for you."785Please respect copyright.PENANAQzYbrlbyRL
***785Please respect copyright.PENANAebiEjdjaWO
"The weather is so friendly, don't you think?" Amanda asked as she looked up at the clear blue sky.785Please respect copyright.PENANAqIdy4CagIR
The weather was pleasant indeed. Amanda was 785Please respect copyright.PENANAVBffhxvCJL
by the patio with Angel and Leo. There was a small white garden table 785Please respect copyright.PENANAQKkX3N2fLw
and they sat around it, with Leo sitting on one of the garden chairs.785Please respect copyright.PENANAEMkOVUEiRi
"It sure is," said Angel as she smiled at Amanda.785Please respect copyright.PENANAIIVMyrxoav
"Okay, what did you want us to talk about?" Leo asked as he looked at Amanda.785Please respect copyright.PENANA45Di9M2CYJ
Amanda's eyes averted from the sky to Angel 785Please respect copyright.PENANAdDkzl5QzW5
and Leo. The smile she had on her face earlier soon fell away. It wasn't785Please respect copyright.PENANAQvCicdzOvo
like her to be like that. That's if she wanted to talk about something 785Please respect copyright.PENANA021vrsdgIO
serious.785Please respect copyright.PENANACc6sJ5WfmN
"I want to talk about you two," said Amanda.785Please respect copyright.PENANAwjNVku9qFr
"Us?" Angel and Leo asked at the same time, again. This time, they looked at each other.785Please respect copyright.PENANAPBvOXtxUZR
"Yes. I know this is going to sound weird and I hope you don't get mad."785Please respect copyright.PENANAuSAfG0x8oD
Angel and Leo didn't say anything as they waited for Amanda to continue.785Please respect copyright.PENANAsCCylaD9F9
"I know you two haven't been on the best of terms lately. Considering one ran over the other with their car."785Please respect copyright.PENANAttb609CRiV
Angel turned her eyes towards the garden while Leo cleared his throat.785Please respect copyright.PENANAo4Xq0hewGw
"I hate to bring this up, but now that we're785Please respect copyright.PENANAlJW5nh4S5c
all leaving under the same roof, it seems weird that there is tension 785Please respect copyright.PENANAeqK0yhpBlh
between the two of you considering what happened."785Please respect copyright.PENANA7cibFiWhBI
"Wait, you think there is tension between us because of the accident?" Angel asked.785Please respect copyright.PENANAvEw2xGLPIP
"Why, yes. I noticed the way you two look at each other."785Please respect copyright.PENANAAEI35oGHVz
"Grandma, look," said Leo, "maybe you're just imagining things, okay? Why should there be any tension between Angel and I?"785Please respect copyright.PENANA83OnUWnlKq
"I don't know. Maybe it's because you always look at each other like you want to kill each other."785Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZWKTZkqSR
Angel and Leo both gave out a casual little laugh. Amanda couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.785Please respect copyright.PENANAYgfCroprsK
"If anyone should be angry, it's Angel," said Leo. "Since I 'mistakenly' ran her over."785Please respect copyright.PENANARwI0LgUHcm
"And you never apologised for it," said 785Please respect copyright.PENANAt3IwlTbRqw
Amanda. "Eric had to cover up for you when you should have been the one 785Please respect copyright.PENANAEPqZppXpwW
at the hospital checking up on Angel. And you're simply not comfortable 785Please respect copyright.PENANAvUfyev5oiD
with her being here because she reminds you of what you have done."785Please respect copyright.PENANAafRgRXaghk
Leo turned to look at Angel who gave him a 785Please respect copyright.PENANAqRiIXNhRIV
jeering look. Angel was simply winning this case since she was the 785Please respect copyright.PENANAoprM8Tr2en
victim and Amanda had grown so fond of her. But Amanda wasn't wrong 785Please respect copyright.PENANAMwhLHYz7E8
about what she said. Leo was in the wrong and he should have been 785Please respect copyright.PENANA634vz6wGwQ
checking up on Angel when she was hospitalised since he was responsible 785Please respect copyright.PENANAWmAITbO4wx
for what happened to her.785Please respect copyright.PENANA6jJOr7tFZc
"Are you saying all this was my fault?" Leo asked.785Please respect copyright.PENANAlNcA55lvAm
"I'm not blaming you for anything, Leo," said Amanda. "All this was 785Please respect copyright.PENANAVcMo4khzZS
nothing but an accident. I thought by now you would have apologised to 785Please respect copyright.PENANAtr0wDt6oWp
Angel. That's what a gentleman should do, right?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAVLxyhGXVW9
Leo sighed. He didn't want to apologise today, much less to Angel. If785Please respect copyright.PENANALpYBlgdELO
only his grandmother knew that the main reason for the tension between 785Please respect copyright.PENANAs83EAsiKvL
them was because of Carly. The accident didn't even matter. Angel was 785Please respect copyright.PENANA9iBZY3fLgy
Carly's sister and she found out that Carly worked as a call girl (a 785Please respect copyright.PENANANNF4x5sPFb
more decent way to put it) and now Leo was in love with her. And Carly 785Please respect copyright.PENANAvct0sAx2qa
to Leo, was his lover and didn't like Angel after how she attacked him 785Please respect copyright.PENANA0tCTFEqQcZ
back at the club.785Please respect copyright.PENANAVr3ygKm2kJ
They couldn't tell Amanda the whole thing. She would die of a heart 785Please respect copyright.PENANA3d55WyZ8Kx
attack and it might just put the Barclay's reputation on the rocks 785Please respect copyright.PENANAS2ObcVpjST
considering Carly once working as a call girl. It would ruin the two 785Please respect copyright.PENANAzW32gNL0RY
sisters completely.785Please respect copyright.PENANAlYxE1DkrU1
"I know, grandma," said Leo. "I'll apologise right now."785Please respect copyright.PENANAbmLV5SzBaS
Angel grew shocked as she looked at Leo. She wasn't really expecting 785Please respect copyright.PENANAOWP7TrMKYT
this at all. Leo apologising? This should be on the news headlines.785Please respect copyright.PENANANu61WBuAIq
Amanda smiled. "Now that's the grandson I know," she said.785Please respect copyright.PENANAFvyJT9I2kC
Leo paused for a moment before turning to look at Angel. He 785Please respect copyright.PENANAV5vCneKJHM
swallowed. He didn't want to do this at all. But his grandma wasn't 785Please respect copyright.PENANAO262DAyPO5
going to let him even if he refused to apologise in the first place. If 785Please respect copyright.PENANAKKSuWIST1p
anything, Angel should apologise for how she attacked him back at the 785Please respect copyright.PENANAy4cydLzul2
club, not him.785Please respect copyright.PENANAuJDkZib7VC
"I'm.....I'm sorry, Angel," said Leo. "I should have apologised to you sooner."785Please respect copyright.PENANAhskBammw61
Amanda felt like she was watching one of those soaps on television. She couldn't help but smile at the two for some reason.785Please respect copyright.PENANAmsvrSPdOyv
"It's fine, Leo," said Angel. "I don't like to keep grudges. I've already forgiven you."785Please respect copyright.PENANAR0DXnCked0
"Good," said Amanda. "This is just what I needed. Now, I hope you two785Please respect copyright.PENANAE9GISsfYqg
won't look at each other like angry wolves again. You haven't had a go 785Please respect copyright.PENANAjuCRE8khCR
at each other yet, have you?"785Please respect copyright.PENANA18SCOxaPdB
Leo and Angel gave each other a brief look and went back to looking at Amanda.785Please respect copyright.PENANAcfOaIR8XB5
"No," they answered at the same time.785Please respect copyright.PENANA0mKYFuWsQf
"Great. That's good to know."785Please respect copyright.PENANA711y7ciGkU
If only she knew that the two of them already had a go at each other almost two weeks ago.785Please respect copyright.PENANAMtpNRidKE4
One of the helpers soon appeared on the patio from the house.785Please respect copyright.PENANADQFR3eSSRr
"The doctor is here to check up on you and Angel, madam," he said to Amanda.785Please respect copyright.PENANAh7QpeEcPYk
"Oh, he came here really early," said Amanda. "I've an idea. You take785Please respect copyright.PENANAGKQb6Pp9eM
me up to him first and leave Angel and Leo so that they can talk."785Please respect copyright.PENANAG3cMtn2afL
"Huh?" Angel looked at Amanda not believing what she said.785Please respect copyright.PENANA3hCFWox5mJ
"Yes, now that Leo has apologised to you, it's high time you two get to know each other a little better."785Please respect copyright.PENANANDlCZeOeUW
"That isn't necessary, grandma," said Leo. "I'll need to go to......"785Please respect copyright.PENANAe9OiMV1Mv1
"Work? You always like dodging whatever I say," said Amanda. "The 785Please respect copyright.PENANAKeST0KMM6B
others just left for the office a little while ago and you said you 785Please respect copyright.PENANAAVKAwnqQ1x
would be in late. There is no harm in getting to know someone. Why don't785Please respect copyright.PENANARuCupywjAM
you keep her company while I go get checked by the doctor? I won't be 785Please respect copyright.PENANA6Vy9pYyodT
long."785Please respect copyright.PENANA5090B1TnIv
Leo almost rolled his eyes but he didn't because he knew his grandmother would scold him for it. He just sighed.785Please respect copyright.PENANAFWzecZrDlK
"Okay, I'll stay here and keep Angel company," he said.785Please respect copyright.PENANAbqYDHZhkWY
"Now," Amanda turned to the helper beside her, "you can take me to the doctor."785Please respect copyright.PENANAHp2buCPNRI
"Yes, madam," said the helper and he helped Amanda into the house.785Please respect copyright.PENANAoylGYDOSva
As soon as they were out of earshot, Leo turned to look at Angel.785Please respect copyright.PENANA0vKZMvKPaq
"I can't believe I apologised to you," he said.785Please respect copyright.PENANArbp9GqsrXC
"I can't believe your grandmother made you do it," said Angel with a smirk on her face.785Please respect copyright.PENANAHOWcerVHeI
Leo couldn't help but blush. There was something about her smirk that785Please respect copyright.PENANAizcQFF0n71
made his heart race and heat up his cheeks so much. He rarely blushed. 785Please respect copyright.PENANALw70Wwf9nr
Not like this. Something was wrong.785Please respect copyright.PENANApt5zgv7G34
"Don't make fun of me," he said as he looked the other way so that Angel wouldn't see him blush.785Please respect copyright.PENANAgEW8ZouVoF
"Why? Does it hurt your ego that much?" Angel had her arms folded as 785Please respect copyright.PENANAecCFDGGo1j
she looked at him. "I see that you're even blushing. Are you really that785Please respect copyright.PENANATUrKedK0ZC
embarrassed?"785Please respect copyright.PENANA2VwQUqaYIZ
Leo blushed even more, but this time, he looked at Angel who looked 785Please respect copyright.PENANAoUuYRS5u8A
at him straight in the eye. Angel couldn't help but smile this time. Her785Please respect copyright.PENANAQeow75rdRk
smile made Leo seem so confused, like he didn't know what to do next.785Please respect copyright.PENANAvPlSoCJKzE
"Oh, aren't you going to say anything?" Angel asked. "It's so unlike 785Please respect copyright.PENANAWEvWunI6dm
you not to say a word. Has the mighty Leo McDonell gone tongue-tied 785Please respect copyright.PENANAQQAWLVY9v7
today?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAAFZbn7qmgF
"Stop it, Angel," said Leo who finally managed to speak. "Just 785Please respect copyright.PENANAuoisq46Vp6
because you've the upper hand at this doesn't mean you can do whatever 785Please respect copyright.PENANAA3finTAafm
you want."785Please respect copyright.PENANAMr0I4diU64
"It worked for you, didn't it?"785Please respect copyright.PENANA7sLdTBLzn1
"What do you mean?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAkAVGi7PwB1
"You remember what happened at the club, don't you? You thought you 785Please respect copyright.PENANA07OBCHhvqV
would get away with everything when you wanted to take advantage of my 785Please respect copyright.PENANAvkj1FipkRO
sister."785Please respect copyright.PENANAASLbpig8uO
"I wasn't taking advantage of her. You know she loves me and I feel the same way about her."785Please respect copyright.PENANAbzEUur3yDK
"She doesn't love you, Leo. All that is nothing but infatuation."785Please respect copyright.PENANALIVEioTbz3
"That's what you say, but I know how Carly feels about me. You just don't want to admit it."785Please respect copyright.PENANAgYJYEbWAVW
"I'm just speaking the truth."785Please respect copyright.PENANAoPN1RKXK7i
"No, you're saying how you feel. And you don't like at me at all, Angel."785Please respect copyright.PENANAAUl0lYF42J
"Well, you don't like me either, at least we can both agree on that."785Please respect copyright.PENANAGvy9IxoFSe
"You made me hate you with the way you approached me at the club that day."785Please respect copyright.PENANAc94c5KvIaS
"I was protecting my sister."785Please respect copyright.PENANAlCYH8QvErE
"Oh, really? Then where were you all those nights when she used to 785Please respect copyright.PENANAJqoTIw0RmX
work there? If anything, you should be attacking those perverts at the 785Please respect copyright.PENANAJDEfdy1qlD
club who dared even touched Carly, not me."785Please respect copyright.PENANAFkCRWqkhkm
Angel banged her hand on the white garden table. That startled Leo 785Please respect copyright.PENANAUpN614cs3g
and the two looked at each other with a moment of silence between them.785Please respect copyright.PENANAPBIf3GFc8f
"You don't know," said Angel, slowly, "......what's it's like to 785Please respect copyright.PENANAySm0kygyLC
know....that the person whom you trusted the most in this world, could 785Please respect copyright.PENANAEnW96ALzSa
betray you like Carly betrayed me."785Please respect copyright.PENANAoWsCdsHnzb
Tears started to form in Angel's eyes, but it surprised Leo that not 785Please respect copyright.PENANAIZQ8dQGzae
one of them fell to her cheeks. They were just there in her eyes like 785Please respect copyright.PENANAi2YydgQEFH
crystal glass.785Please respect copyright.PENANAtOwnpvGG89
"If I knew what Carly was up to from the very start," Angel 785Please respect copyright.PENANA19ZgRTElKv
continued, this time she was much calmer, "maybe you and I wouldn't be 785Please respect copyright.PENANAq1uJpy0iDg
in this situation right now."785Please respect copyright.PENANAJRQ6qliYm3
Leo thought of what Angel said. He realised that she had completely 785Please respect copyright.PENANACAMXdLfoJE
no idea that Carly was working at the club. And the way she said it, it 785Please respect copyright.PENANAucDh1zlSBL
seems like she blames herself for not being aware of her sister's 785Please respect copyright.PENANArNmJc3mkcL
actions.785Please respect copyright.PENANAYykgRagt0m
The two of them just sat in silence, not looking at each other.785Please respect copyright.PENANAJFoSkQIOSh
"Maybe now you understand," said Angel as she broke the silence and 785Please respect copyright.PENANANZG23vIxW5
looked at Leo, "why I'll go to any lengths to prevent you from getting 785Please respect copyright.PENANAYOB2cpxaSR
near Carly."785Please respect copyright.PENANAKmqHyzrW5M
"You know you can't do that, Angel," he said. "I love Carly."785Please respect copyright.PENANAYk7yhRLvON
"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......"785Please respect copyright.PENANAWgUvK6gLPZ
Angel couldn't even utter the word. As much as she was still mad at 785Please respect copyright.PENANA2zECoXHI5P
Carly, she couldn't use that word on her. Not only would it be insulting785Please respect copyright.PENANAeZ1v4GyJEl
Carly, she would be insulting herself.785Please respect copyright.PENANAfHjsHJWuc5
"I don't see her like that," said Leo.785Please respect copyright.PENANAw3vrL2EOPY
"Really? What if one day you don't feel the same way you feel for her now? What would you do then?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAz3Xz72CXsZ
"That would never happen."785Please respect copyright.PENANAqaDdqGrLFZ
"You're only saying that because you're a fool."785Please respect copyright.PENANA8Xk6gZePai
"A fool in love, yes."785Please respect copyright.PENANABaahDuZPZv
Angel shook her head. "I want to believe you, but I can't."785Please respect copyright.PENANA0cNiIiLNRO
"Why? Because you don't like me?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAOZoYCNq3u0
Angel smirked. Again, Leo could feel his cheeks heat up.785Please respect copyright.PENANAO15RNu0jzE
"Maybe. But let me tell you this. When I found out about Carly, she 785Please respect copyright.PENANAjyxUDPWsDM
broke my trust completely. I don't know if after our mother's passing 785Please respect copyright.PENANA2IXZai2eX3
and my accident that she would ever change."785Please respect copyright.PENANA1y0CejJQAv
"She has," Leo defended her. "She promised me she would never go back to that place ever again."785Please respect copyright.PENANAhPyLGfOrFI
"You don't know her. And until I know she has changed for the better,785Please respect copyright.PENANAeGkXj1EAb8
maybe then I won't have to worry about her being with you."785Please respect copyright.PENANA1jtIa6tlUT
Leo couldn't help but feel confused. Didn't Angel trust her own sister? Why was she saying this?785Please respect copyright.PENANATZNUlIHehn
"Wait, do you think, Carly would be betray me too?" Leo asked.785Please respect copyright.PENANA9QbzUiGWwV
Angel shrugged her shoulders. "If she could do that to me and my late mother to fulfill her ambitions, what more you?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAnqxiF1tvGJ
Leo didn't answer and Angel expected him not to. She soon turned the 785Please respect copyright.PENANA8I8Ro9BjTs
wheelchair around and dragged herself back inside the house leaving Leo 785Please respect copyright.PENANAIxNV2InBzN
puzzled.785Please respect copyright.PENANA0FXojV2rXw
***785Please respect copyright.PENANA3njvTK0IlT
Carly sighed. She had never felt this 785Please respect copyright.PENANAWgheVa7fx1
relaxed in her life as she sat on the inclined chair and her nails were 785Please respect copyright.PENANAUUz8AmKGjb
being attended to by the manicurist at the beauty salon.785Please respect copyright.PENANA5xY3H13v6r
"This is the life," Carly thought to herself with a smile on her face and her eyes closed. "I can get used to this."785Please respect copyright.PENANAKHAuA1xBO6
When Carly got to the beauty salon with 785Please respect copyright.PENANAvcFTcCXpy6
Diana since Bertha remained behind and couldn't come along with them, 785Please respect copyright.PENANARWiJddWH6T
she couldn't help but admire the place. She was amazed with what Diana 785Please respect copyright.PENANAtAV0O3fI1W
had achieved so far. The place was well known and many women came here 785Please respect copyright.PENANAFlDHAZTiwO
for manicures, pedicures, hair and cosmetic treatments.785Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4YN8Ro5ts
It was surprising how Diana didn't join her 785Please respect copyright.PENANAcV7hXS5L7x
brother, Mr McDonell in the family business. It seems most successful 785Please respect copyright.PENANALunPXqmudI
rich families work together in the same company nowadays. But Diana was 785Please respect copyright.PENANAvZaYv8us2a
different. She wanted to do something else. Something for herself. More 785Please respect copyright.PENANAJXoTm4F8y2
like defining who she really was from what everyone thought every 785Please respect copyright.PENANA3QZnkDvCzg
McDonell should be.785Please respect copyright.PENANAayXBNQJEnw
Carly had asked the question a while back why Diana didn't join in the family business. Diana had answered:785Please respect copyright.PENANA5epEY9HQg3
"Our family has been successfully with the 785Please respect copyright.PENANAEosER5Kr8E
company throughout the years. I thought maybe I can get in the family 785Please respect copyright.PENANAaXZNSDExGA
spirit and do what everyone else in the family was doing. But it didn't 785Please respect copyright.PENANA9TiO5Ofsx7
feel right for me, you know? I already imagined my future doing 785Please respect copyright.PENANANff4UNRXeB
something else. My parents didn't mind my choice of career. They were in785Please respect copyright.PENANA5FYoNfCgey
fact quiet supportive and helped me in anyway to build this beauty 785Please respect copyright.PENANACMBMm2YC5e
salon and across some parts of America as well. It's a big thing and a 785Please respect copyright.PENANADwyrRyaHVz
huge achievement on my part. Am glad for the support I continue to get, 785Please respect copyright.PENANACaqsBwFYIQ
especially from my brother. He is so kind."785Please respect copyright.PENANA1OY9zioMns
That was some story. And Carly couldn't help785Please respect copyright.PENANAb6Ni1J9uCe
but admire her more than ever. Diana was a lady of ambition. She didn't785Please respect copyright.PENANAW1rBic0eYw
want to work in the McDonell family and followed her own dreams 785Please respect copyright.PENANAyq7dHeey8Q
instead. She was one a lot of females would like to look up to as a role785Please respect copyright.PENANAp2YLDzme8G
model.785Please respect copyright.PENANAd1hvBno1iO
What Diana is today, sent Carly thinking of 785Please respect copyright.PENANAB6Kqr6NNOw
what she wanted to do with her own life. Maybe she could be just like 785Please respect copyright.PENANAbJZdrp7JzX
Diana. She has always wanted to do something big, not just try and get 785Please respect copyright.PENANAkvSzDThTZe
enough money so that she could live in luxurious apartments. She had big785Please respect copyright.PENANALfdZPX7Z7L
dreams when she was a child, but all that faded away when she realised 785Please respect copyright.PENANA8FspZVLqUR
the financial state her family was in.785Please respect copyright.PENANAaGUNqyBZK0
But now that she was with the McDonell 785Please respect copyright.PENANAkNgiEoezfp
family, she might try and do something good with her life. Live the life785Please respect copyright.PENANAus9i5Dgkgg
she has always wanted.785Please respect copyright.PENANAlI1MQnFq7T
"Are you enjoying yourself, Carly?" Diana called out to her.785Please respect copyright.PENANAsJ94je9CC0
Carly opened her eyes and saw Diana standing785Please respect copyright.PENANAeoOzpqTNm3
a few feet from her, smiling. She had gone in her office to take an 785Please respect copyright.PENANAhFYCjbdyRD
important phone call and left Carly to be attended to.785Please respect copyright.PENANAsyh9DmpPoO
"I am, thanks for asking," replied Carly.785Please respect copyright.PENANAHrgZNjFlnM
"Okay, once you're done, we can go out and have lunch together. What do you think?"785Please respect copyright.PENANAj20e8Ollsq
"That would be awesome."785Please respect copyright.PENANAPt8AIT9Ejh
"Great, I'll be in my office. Make her feel 785Please respect copyright.PENANA609Txcb2Mf
comfortable, okay?" Diana directed that to the manicurist who nodded 785Please respect copyright.PENANAXhUAhDghy3
with pleasure and continued to work on Carly's nails.785Please respect copyright.PENANAwMEhxvqAZI
As soon as Diana walked away and Carly was 785Please respect copyright.PENANAo8jB2H7Z9H
about to close her eyes again, she noticed from the corner of her eye 785Please respect copyright.PENANAHt8Kp65HJZ
that her phone was ringing on the small table next to her chair. She had785Please respect copyright.PENANApxtaqUfskF
put her phone on silent so that she wouldn't be disturbed. She picked 785Please respect copyright.PENANA5kc21ZG9Jy
up the phone with her free hand and looked at the caller ID.785Please respect copyright.PENANAtItwyr51i2
Miranda.785Please respect copyright.PENANA9Sh4OoADOE
Carly rolled her eyes. Miranda has been 785Please respect copyright.PENANAYTfRjDfL2F
calling her for days now and she wasn't interested in picking up her 785Please respect copyright.PENANASD2U15V7Fy
calls. It was obvious that Miranda wanted her back at the club. So did 785Please respect copyright.PENANAQKLAbuPh9V
Mr Walters who even left her a bunch of messages this past week. She 785Please respect copyright.PENANA33Pu5VW2er
wasn't going back there. She already promised herself and Leo.785Please respect copyright.PENANAcSKjjnaoIq
Carly put her phone aside as a thought soon 785Please respect copyright.PENANAThbSzGNfTK
came up in her mind. Angel never knew that she was working at the club 785Please respect copyright.PENANAblVwMZ62DX
and she showed up there when it wasn't even during working hours. Who 785Please respect copyright.PENANA2fUJ9PC3T3
tipped Angel about her whereabouts that day? It couldn't be Mr Walters 785Please respect copyright.PENANAECHmX5jM2b
and probably not any of the bartenders or dancers at the club because 785Please respect copyright.PENANAoQLHL9FMLk
she never ever discussed her life with them.785Please respect copyright.PENANAx1rVlSDVMC
Could it be Miranda?785Please respect copyright.PENANA6GXeWc6Vum
Carly couldn't help but feel it was her. She785Please respect copyright.PENANAMwYcHOOh1X
didn't even ask Angel who had told her where she was that day. 785Please respect copyright.PENANAN0skCdmgcz
Everything happened so fast she completely forgot about it till now. 785Please respect copyright.PENANArQkTCDaGHq
There was no doubt it was Miranda who had told Angel.785Please respect copyright.PENANApETQIoJxZP
And now she was calling Carly after all this785Please respect copyright.PENANAyj5cALUp4N
time. Miranda isn't her friend, she never was. Why she put Carly in 785Please respect copyright.PENANAbWyd7jsESV
such a situation, Carly would never know unless she asks. But she wasn't785Please respect copyright.PENANAQEed0TMkMS
in the mood to talk to Miranda. Not when it's was pretty obvious of her785Please respect copyright.PENANAgr8ijs8V8O
betrayal.785Please respect copyright.PENANAf2LZefDf91
Carly looked at her phone again. Thinking of785Please respect copyright.PENANA5JJVArCDbw
whether to answer it. But she relaxed on her chair. She was not going 785Please respect copyright.PENANAsfDLokZzZG
to let Miranda spoil her mood like she ruined her life some weeks ago.785Please respect copyright.PENANA7Egpb1fc50
"She can go to hell for all I care," Carly thought with a smirk on her face.
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