Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 81

It was pouring rain in JA City.

Terence stood in front of the window and looked out at the gloomy gray sky. He watched as the heavy rain dripped from the eaves.

"Mr. Terence, I have just received news about Miss Carla from BH City. She ran into some trouble yesterday."

Nathan said as he stood quietly behind Terence, waiting for a response.

"Tell me all about it." Terence didn't turn around. He remained to look out of the window. 'What happened to Carla?' he thought with a slight frown.

"Noah has been spotted in BH City lately, and it is still unclear what the purpose of his visit is. However, he has also been seen with Miss Carla," Nathan said carefully when he reported the recent events of Carla to Terence.

Terence turned when he heard Noah's name mentioned and faced Nathan directly. He narrowed his eyes.

"Noah?"

Nathan nodded and continued gravely, "Noah is a ruthless and greedy man. He leaves no room for negotiation and is very cruel with his methods of persuasion. Ever since he took charge of the Hua Group, he has used every method possible to achieve his goals. If anything were to stand in his way, he would simply eliminate the problem. He must have some sinister motive since he has approached Miss Carla."

Terence's face suddenly took on a serious expression. His mood got worse after hearing what Nathan said. He clenched his teeth as he reached for the cigarette box and pulled one cigarette out.

"The Hua family and the An family never interfere with each other. But recently, Bonnie Hua had come to JA City and shortly afterward, Noah Hua had been spotted in BH City. He has lived in HA City for a long time. That's so weird.

What the hell is the Hua family up to? After so many years of peace between the two families, why did they suddenly decide to make a move?"

Terence frowned, puzzled about their purposes. He sat back in his leather chair. He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly. He only smoked when he felt disturbed about something and this was one of those occasions.

"Did you find out how Noah got in touch with Carla?" he asked.

Nathan nodded his head.

"Yes. I found out the whole story. Miss Carla was mugged on her way home from work yesterday and the thieves ran off with her bag. Miss Carla tried to pursue them and she was attacked with a knife by one of them. Noah appeared right at that moment and saved her.

He drove Miss Carla to the hospital. She had sustained some minor cuts and bruises, but she is all right. This afternoon they ran into each other again at the police station to give their witness statements. And then they had dinner together.

After they had dinner, Noah personally drove Miss Carla home. She has got home safe now."

Terence's heart sank when heard that Carla was injured. He sat up in the chair and butt the cigarette out into the ashtray vigorously, as if the cigarette was the villain who hurt Carla.

"Noah is only interested in doing things for his own personal gain and he is notorious for his ruthless means of getting his way. There is only one reason can be explained why he wanted to approach Carla. There must be something in Carla that he want."

Terence lowered his eyes slightly and stroked his chin with his index finger and thumb while he thought. After a few moments, he looked up and said, "Nathan, get our undercover agent in HA City to find out the actual situation of the Hua family and if there was anything happened recently in the Hua family.

In addition, send some bodyguards to protect Carla and Sean discreetly. I don't want them to know. Remember that, I will hold you personally responsible if I hear that either one of them is hurt again."

Nathan nodded and left briskly.

Terence picked his cellphone up from the table and began to dial Carla's number.

The phone had only rung once when he regretted the idea and quickly hung up.

When he thought of what he had said to her on the phone last night, he hated himself so much for it. 'She must have been hurt by that time.'

It had suddenly occurred to Terence that Carla had entrusted him with the emerald ring. He picked his cellphone up again and dialed Bryant's number immediately.

"Hello, Bryant. What's the progress on the investigation of the emerald ring?

Bryant specialized in investigating information. He was good at both investigating people and investigating things.

"Mr. Terence, you're not sleeping?"

Bryant yawned and stretched. He was already in bed sleeping when the phone had rung. Hearing Terence asked about the emerald ring, he quickly took the survey data out of the drawer and flicked through the information.

"Nonsense! How can I call you if I'm asleep?

Just tell me how the investigation is going."

Terence's tone conveyed coldness and impatience.

Bryant rubbed his sleepy eyes and spread the data out and said, "Mr. Terence, take it easy.

The emerald ring has been around for so many years. You just gave me ten days to investigate it.

Time is so pressing, and investigating it is like, looking for a needle in a haystack. But I've got a useful clue, so it will be slightly easier to find out its origin."

"Just tell me what you've got," Terence urged him again.

"Okay. Well, the ring appeared only once in the 1970s, but it was not recorded. So we can only get information from other people by word of mouth. I can only make a rough estimate of the wealthy families who might have had this ring in their possession at that time. But, there were hundreds of such families. It will take a long time to exclude them one by one. So there really is no substantial progress, Mr. Terence."

Bryant sighed deeply.

It was a really big project.

There were so many variants to take into account and to consider. At the time there were many similar rings. Besides, many of the families that may have had the ring could have moved to different places or even parts of the world. Some may have even changed their surnames, which just added to the difficulty of the investigation.

"Is that the best you could do? How can you be so stupid?"

Terence couldn't help scolding Bryant. "Carla is the one who has the emerald ring now, which means that the ring belonged to her parents in the past.

Her parents were not financially well off, unlike those who could have owned the ring. So they must have had contact with someone wealthy, or there was something special that happened that year before they got the ring.

If you start the research with her parents, you'll find the truth out faster, you silly fool."

Bryant seethed on the other end of the phone. He remained silent for a moment to calm himself down so he didn't blurt something out that he would later regret.

When he had calmed and felt confident that he could control himself, he explained in an aggrieved tone, "Mr. Terence, you just asked Nathan to send me the information of the emerald ring and didn't tell me that the owner of it was Carla's parents. I thought you wanted me to investigate the ring without any basis.

And I didn't want to bother you by asking if you had any leads already."

Although Bryant was really peeved, he dared not complain too much.

'In the past, you often asked me to investigate cases without any clues. If I asked you a few more questions about it, you would always give me the same reply — 'if I knew the answer, you wouldn't need to investigate it.'

How was I supposed to know that you had a lead this time around? So it's all my fault now, is it?' he thought bitterly to himself.

"It's your job to ask those things before you start.

You should have known that. You only have yourself to blame." Terence sneered with no sympathy. "I'll give you a month to continue the investigation. I expect you to make some substantial progress by then. I'll get Nathan to send you the information about Carla's parents."

Bryant thought Terence was a tyrant, but he had to put up with it.

"No problem!" Bryant promised soundly. It wouldn't be difficult to investigate now since they had got a useful clue. The investigation was his specialty.

Terence hung up the phone.

He rubbed his brow irritably and pulled another cigarette from the box and lit it up.

Carla had been hurt.

Terence was worried about her injuries and how she was coping.

He wanted to go to her right away, but he couldn't leave now.

The reason why he said those cruel words to her on the phone was that he hoped that she could be prepared for any unexpected situation. So that even if something bad happened in the future, she could bear it.

And according to how the current situation was, he really needed to stay away from her temporarily.

It was for her own safety.

"Mr. Terence, you haven't recovered fully yet. Please go easy with the cigarettes," Rainer said as he entered the room and poured a cup of tea for Terence and placed it on the table.

Terence tapped the ash from the end of his cigarette into the ashtray, his eyes narrowed and no one could tell what was going through his mind.

Suddenly his eyes lit up and he looked up at Rainer who was standing beside him.

"Rainer, I am going to assign a very important task to you. It is imperative that it must be carried out tomorrow."

Rainer straightened his posture and put his hand on his chest for assurance.

"Mr. Terence, you can rest assured that whatever it is that you want me to do, I will do it for you!"

But, Rainer, never expected what Terence was about to ask him to do would be so shocking.

"I want you to go to BH City and install two hidden cameras in Carla's house. One in the living room and the other in Carla's bedroom.

Remember, be absolutely covert and interference-proof and make sure to be discreet about it. I have to see the monitor screen before tomorrow night!"

Rainer was completely shocked by what Terence said and lowered his head in silence.

'Did I hear it right? Mr. Terence wants me to install cameras in Miss Carla's house?

And even in her bedroom?

Mr. Terence, you are so shameless!

Where are your morals?'