Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 98

Upon hearing Noah express his opinion, Sherry was immediately flushed. She lowered her head and tightly held onto his shirt feeling so embarrassed that she wished the earth would just swallow her up right then and there and get it over with.

"Noah, I know that was so thoughtless of me. But you just won't look at me no matter what I do. I couldn't think of any other way to grab your attention aside from..."

Sherry abruptly stopped talking, but what she was trying to express was clear as day. It was a smart decision for her to directly admit her mistakes after getting exposed. It, at the very least, made her look upstanding since she made no attempts to deny it.

Noah handed the menu over to her and said, "Have a look at the menu and see what else you would like to have for dinner. I'll ask them to cook these dishes first. When Carla and Sean get back from the restroom, they can just add some dishes later."

Sherry was visibly feeling distressed as she shot him a glance and said in a sulky voice, "You seem to be only concerned when it comes to Carla. I noticed how your eyes had been glued to her the whole time. But you never once looked at me even though I was the one standing right next to you."

Noah's hand was frozen for a moment when he was about to grab his cup of tea. Then he turned and looked toward the corridor and checked to see if Carla and Sean had gone back yet.

"It's good that you're aware of it. I'm glad to hear that,"

Noah flat out replied without trying to evade her question. Carefully picking up his tea, he slowly took a sip of it.

A bit confused and perplexed upon hearing Noah's response, Sherry thought that she might have just heard him wrong. So, she put the menu down on the table and tried to ask him a second time, her eyes filled with so much disbelief, "Noah, what did you just say? Did I hear that correctly? You... You and Carla?

No, no way. This can't be real! What does she have that I don't? She's wearing cheap clothes and she's even got a younger brother to take care of. For all I know, people might even think that's her own child if they didn't know better.

How come you fancy someone like her? Just what the hell is it that you see in her?"

Sherry was so overwhelmed by shock that she went a bit hysterical after discovering the cold hard truth. Not able to control her emotions, it had been written all over her face.

However, she was only fooling herself since she truly believed that there was no way Carla could ever be living better than her.

In Sherry's eyes, Carla couldn't compare to her in any way. She just wasn't as elegant nor attractive as Sherry was.

At least, she thought that was Noah's perspective on things as well.

"Sherry, when a woman is badmouthing another woman without any regard for how she looks on the eyes of other people, it means that she has already lost it because of the overflowing jealousy. Carla is really a nice girl. I actually think she's great. I sincerely admire her. And I've already told you that it's impossible between us, so it would be best for you to stop wasting your time on me."

Noah humored her with an answer in a cold voice as he passed the menu over to the waiter and picked up his tea to take a sip.

"Even if you somehow manage to end up being with me, I'm sure we won't last together for so long. After that, I'll probably just give you some form of compensation for it, but it's nothing written in stone.

Sherry, if that's what you're hell-bent on dying to get, I can grant that wish of yours. Go meet me at the hotel tonight if you want," Noah added, swirling the cup of tea in his hand ever so slightly.

Noah had essentially brought into sharp focus that

if she was looking to make a total fool of herself, he had no qualms about it.

Staring at the man with a heart of stone right in front of her, Sherry felt an overwhelming vexation and disenchantment.

Unlike any other man she had ever met before, Noah was much clever. He had actually thought things through, and he was able to perceive what she had been scheming in a no time. But even so, he still wasn't so eager to expose her.

And he probably wouldn't have said anything at all if she hadn't taken things too far today. Specifically speaking, she had just gone so way out of line that it annoyed him to the point that he couldn't stand it anymore.

But even though he pointed all of that out straight up to her face, Noah still had the decency to let her keep some dignity, because, at any rate, he chose to made clear of that while the two of them were alone instead of embarrassing her in front of everyone else, which he could've done just as easily.

"What are you two talking about? Do you mind if we join in? Sherry, you don't look so good. Are you alright? Is everything okay here?"

Carla and Sean finally came back from the restroom after what felt like an eternity as Carla had really intended to give Sherry and Noah a chance to be intimate.

But the second she stepped into the booth, she noticed after just a single glance that Sherry was looking so pale and it appeared as if she really wasn't feeling well at the moment.