Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 95

Carla was stunned for a moment at Noah's sudden question. But after calming her nerves, she put on a smile and answered, "There is some truth in what you're asking. After all, I don't really know much about you. You are very intimidating and look very powerful. Just like a born leader. It looks like you are from a wealthy house and in charge of people's livings.

I believe that almost every woman would fear a man like you. Don't you agree?"

After finishing her words, Carla put on a naughty smile. She reached for her juice as she needed something to calm her pounding heart. But the orange juice wasn't helpful at all.

"You're right. People around me are afraid of me." Noah did a quick evaluation of himself as he had another sip of his latte. He had to admit it. Lots of people did seem to be afraid of him, even when he pretended to put across a tender image of himself.

"But I hope you don't fear me, Miss Carla. I would really like to be friends with you. If you are afraid of me, I will definitely feel frustrated,"

Noah added with a gentle smile as he looked at her.

When Carla saw Noah's friendly smile, she couldn't help but wonder, if perhaps, she was being way too nervous and wronged him.

After all, she had no reason to fear him. She didn't do anything to upset him or go against him in any way. Was it truly necessary for her to be so over cautious? He may become suspicious about her if she put up such a guard.

"Well, how about you bring your brother at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning?

Don't refuse me. Or I will be heartbroken." As he said that, Noah pulled out two tickets and lay them on the table in front of Carla.

"Miss Carla, please give me a chance to prove to you that I'm not a scary person but in fact, quite friendly. Is that okay?"

Noah looked into her eyes with sincerity and pleaded with her. She found it hard to resist his tender smile and those beautiful amber eyes.

Carla hesitated for a moment. He really had put her on the spot. She blinked and glanced down at the tickets. Carla really didn't have much of a choice but to accept his offer. After a brief moment, she came up with an idea so that she wouldn't have to be alone with Noah and said, "By the way, Sherry called me earlier and asked about you.

How about I invite Sherry to come with us, and you can have another chance to prove to me that you really are friendly? What do you think?"

Noah's eyes twinkled and he chuckled out loud. Nodding his head, he passed her another ticket.

"Is there anyone else that you might like to bring? I've got plenty of tickets," he said waving them at her with a smile.

Carla looked at the pile of tickets in his hand. She thought for a moment as Jena's grandson and Tina's nephews would love a ticket each.

However, after rethinking it, she realized it wasn't worth it. She didn't want to feel indebted to Noah just because of a few extra free tickets.

"No one else. Just the three of us," Carla replied.

She thanked Noah for the tickets and then said goodbye.

Noah watched as Carla disappeared off into the distance. His friendly smile changed back into a cold stare and he was lost in his thoughts.

Things had become more complicated now.

If only Carla was in question, Noah would be sure that he could win her heart over.

But knowing that Terence was also involved, had suddenly made things much more difficult for him.

That being the case, he couldn't just kill Carla as he had originally thought to do, as it would prove to be too risky. He had to work out a way of getting past Terence.

In addition to everything, Bonnie was going to be engaged to Terence. So he couldn't afford to jeopardize their engagement in any way. Once Terence became engaged to Bonnie, then it would mean that he had no other feeling towards Carla.

And with Terence out of the picture, he had a chance to win Carla's heart.

It would be more beneficial to Noah if he married Carla, instead of killing her.

Carla was the only biological daughter of the Hua family. She would ultimately inherit all of the properties and assets. As for Noah, if he succeeded in marrying the only heiress of the Hua family, whatever had belonged to him now, would still belong to him in the future.

No. He would have even more than that.

But the biggest problem now was to get Carla to trust him and win her heart. Once he became the son-in-law of the Hua family, instead of an adopted son, he wouldn't need to worry about losing his wealth anymore.

And only when Carla had completely fallen in love with him, would he confidently bring her back to the Hua family to meet her biological parents.

However, if he failed to get her to fall in love with him and marry him, then he would do everything in his power to stop her from ever going back to the Hua family by whatever means necessary.

When Carla had arrived home, she waved the tickets in front of Sean and told him that they would be going to the Century Amusement Park tomorrow. Sean jumped up and down with joy.

Carla smiled to see her little brother so happy. She picked up her cellphone and called Sherry to ask her if she would like to go as well.

As expected, Sherry was delighted to go with them.

Ever since Sherry went to the business party with Noah, she couldn't stop talking about him. She had been so impressed with his charm.

Carla had thought that Sherry may have been exaggerating the truth a little. But after Terence had told her that Noah was a member of the Hua family, she realized what Sherry had said about him was, in fact, the truth and not an exaggeration at all.

That afternoon, Carla successfully managed to mess up another blind date that she went on, with Sean as her secret weapon of course. Very few men were prepared to take on the responsibility of helping her raise her little brother.

Early the next morning, it was just barely past seven when someone knocked loudly on the front door of Carla's house. When Carla opened the door, Sherry stood there dressed in designer clothes, wearing a sun hat and sunglasses.

"Good morning Carla!"

Sherry waved enthusiastically to Carla and greeted her with a big smile.

"How do I look? Am I charming enough?" asked Sherry as she spun around for Carla to see her complete outfit.

Carla felt like laughing but held it in, nodding her head instead. It was really amusing for her to see Sherry take so much trouble to impress Noah and twirl around doing exaggerated poses.

"Not bad. Just like a peacock.

As ostentatious as a peacock."

Sherry's bubble was burst and she pretended to make a sulky face at Carla. She walked in with comical wiggle. Once inside Carla's house she looked around and said, "Carla, I didn't know that you had such a nice house. It's so big. Do you rent it?"

When she learned that the house had three bedrooms with a study, Sherry found it hard to believe that Carla could afford such a big house.

"Sort of," Carla mumbled. "Would you like something to drink?"

Sherry sat down on the couch and had a better look at the upholstery, she ran her hand across the material. "Wow, is this real leather? It's got to be fake, right? But it does look and feel like real leather."

After studying the couch she looked around at the rest of the decor in the room. "Yeah, the juice will be fine. Carla, was this house furnished when you began renting it? The rent must be very expensive. It's so big and so tastefully decorated," Sherry said with curiosity written all over her face.

Carla noticed that Sherry wasn't going to drop the topic of the house until she got some answers. She poured her a glass of juice and then sat on a couch opposite her.

"Yes. It's my friend's house. He doesn't live in BH City for the time being. So he rents it to me for a reasonable amount that I can afford, and I can look after it for him while he is away," Carla explained.

She had to lie about it. If she told Sherry the truth she would only dig deeper and then Carla would never hear the end of it.

Besides, Sherry was so sensitive and caring. If she sensed that something was wrong then she would force Carla to tell her everything. Carla really didn't want to discuss all of that with her.

Sherry picked up the glass of juice and had a sip. She leaned forward on the edge of the couch and looked Carla straight in the eyes and asked, "Carla, tell me the truth. Is this Noah's house? You and he are pretty close, aren't you?"

Carla frowned when she heard what Sherry had said and it made Carla upset that Sherry was probing too deeply into her private life.

"No, it's not. You're over thinking it." Carla then stood up and went to Sean's bedroom door and called out, "Sean, it's time to get up!"

Sherry put her hand to her cheek and thought for a moment. Then she turned to Carla with doubt in her eyes and asked, "So, how do you know Noah? I mean, he's not just some nobody. When I went to the business party with him, everyone there showed him the utmost respect."

Carla was starting to tire and develop a headache from Sherry's relentless questions. So to finally get Sherry off her back, she explained the whole story to her, about the thief incident and how Noah had saved her.

Satisfied with Carla's explanation, Sherry finally understood and nodded her head.

She couldn't understand how someone like Carla could get to know a noble gentleman such as Noah. Even though Sherry attended upper-class parties where ever possible, she still wasn't able to meet someone like him.

Sherry was becoming impatient and restless. Even though it was still too early to go to the amusement park. She was very eager to see the charming man.

She began to urge Carla for them to leave as soon as possible. Claiming that it wasn't good for them to be late.

Carla couldn't stand to listen to her nagging anymore, so they departed shortly afterward.

The official opening day for the amusement park was Sunday. That day was deliberately chosen to attract the maximum amount of people because it wasn't a working day. There were many people already lined up at the gate, waiting to got inside.

"See, that's what I said! I told you we should have come here earlier. Look at all those people waiting in line to get inside now. It's so annoying!"

Sherry complained as she looked at the long queue in front of them and stomped her foot irritated. She held her sun hat with one hand and said, "Carla, it's too hot to stand in the queue out here in this sun all day. Why don't you make a phone call to Noah and ask him to let us go inside without waiting?" Sherry was feeling hot and bothered by the sun.

She held onto Carla's arm and begged her to call him.