Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 124

After Terence was finally done eating, he wiped his mouth elegantly and then immediately grabbed the phone from his hand.

"Dad, how are you doing? Have you eaten dinner yet?"

Upon hearing him and finding out that he still had the mood to say those words, Edmund snorted. "Terence, don't you think you are being too impulsive?

You just went ahead and took the girl and her brother to stay in the villa again? Are you out of your mind? What do you expect Bonnie to think?"

Bonnie came back with an awful face and he asked her and soon knew what happened.

"Bonnie told you about it? Dad, Grandpa has always taught me that one should always be grateful for the things other people have done for you. Bonnie harassed Carla and even her younger brother so terribly in my name. I am only doing this to try to redeem myself after what Bonnie did to them,"

Terence said calmly in a matter-of-fact manner as he had expected him to call. It came a little bit sooner than he thought, however.

"Terence, let me tell you this. You're nowhere near as composed and prudent as your elder brother is. Unlike you, he always looks at the bigger picture and never acts on an impulse." Edmund thought of his other son who was still back in NF City. If it weren't for Terence's grandfather objecting his decision, he would've loved for him to just come back home.

"You're right. We both know that deep down inside your heart, I won't ever be good enough for you—let alone be as good as Marcus. If you've got nothing else to say, I have to go now," Terence remarked, his eyes looking so soulless and devoid of hope for his father.

Even after the committing the unforgivable sin of trying to kill his own brother, Edmund still vehemently took Marcus's side.

Had there not been a paternity test taken years ago that positively confirmed him to be Edmund's biological son, Terence would have honestly thought he was adopted.

"Terence, it's not like that. That's not what I was trying to say. What your brother did was detestable and loathsome. He went ahead and did something against our family tradition. In doing so, he has essentially rescinded his right to inherit the family fortune. I'm just hoping that you'll try not to act too much based on instinct and think more thoroughly of the consequences of your actions whenever you're going to do something.

At the end of the day, you'll be the one looking after the fortune of the three great branches of the Ans. All of it will be in your hands."

The moment he heard Terence get enraged, Edmund heaved a heavy sigh, "I know you might be feeling indebted to the Jis for standing up for you. But it's not that I don't approve of you inviting them over to the villa. I just really hope you think things through and handle things properly.

Try not to get too close to her and please maintain a proper distance between the two of you so as not to make Bonnie any more jealous. Those things could possibly bring more trouble than good,"

Edmund tried to jog his memory as he was fully aware that Bonnie was the one and only daughter of the Huas and she was their pride and joy, so she shouldn't ever be offended in any way.

"Dad, there's no need for you to be concerned. You can rest assured that I'll be marrying the daughter of the Huas," Terence said resolutely, drawing his eyes away from the calm sea in the distance under the beautiful night sky.

Hearing Terence say those words, Edmund felt much more reassured and let out a sigh of relief.

"Okay then, I feel more at ease now. I'll see what I can do to console Bonnie and you. On the other hand, you should try to get to know her better and spend more time with her, too. That's would be all for now. I have to go,"

Edmund replied. After taking in a long deep breath, he hung up the phone.

Terence handed the phone over back to Rainer and stood still by the window, staring blankly into the sea in the distance for a prolonged period of time.

He remained idly standing there for a while

until...

Rainer who had trained his ears to be sensitive enough to detect even the slighest of sounds, suddenly heard a shriek that seemed to have come from the direction of the villa. Leaning in closer to Terence, he cautiously said, "Mr. Terence, I heard Miss Ji swearing out loud... Well, to be specific, she's actually calling you out."

Upon hearing that, Terence was abruptly brought back into reality and instantly turned back, muffling a scream, "Shit!"

Rainer was extremely puzzled, but he followed Terence closely when he saw him pace hastily toward the direction of the villa. "Is there anything wrong, Mr. Terence? Would you like for me to call Nathan over to help?"

At a wave of his hand, Terence told him that it won't be necessary, causing Rainer to immediately stop in his tracks and refrain from following him any longer.

When Terence finally got to the third floor, it was just as he had feared it would be.

There was only one wall separating Terence's room and hers. Aside from Carla, there's no one else he'd ever allow to freely enter his room.

Minding his own business, Sean was simply doing his homework in his own room. Since there was no one for her to hang out with, Carla began feeling bored, and so, she decided to drop by Terence's room. The last time she came to the villa, she had stayed in his room, so she was already quite familiar with it.

But there was something else she had in mind. She had actually brought a drawerful of diamond rings from her apartment and wanted to somehow secretly stuff them back in his room without anyone noticing.

Above all else, she badly needed to look for a place safe enough to hide so many rings.

She rarely stayed there in the villa. So, if she carelessly decided to hide them somewhere in her room, by the time she left, the maid might accidentally find them while cleaning the room.