Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 111

Terence let Bonnie leave deliberately, because he didn't want her to be there at that moment. Otherwise, she would have sensed the close relationship that Terence and Carla shared between each other. And in the future she might seek revenge upon Carla.

Terence wasn't concerned about getting into trouble. He was worried for Carla, not wanting her to be in any danger.

After he carefully and thoroughly wiped the chili oil from Carla's hand, he raised his head to look at Carla's face.

There was a red cross drawn across Carla's flushed cheek. Terence smiled inwardly as he studied her face. She looked so sweet with her furrowed brows and flushed cheeks. And the red lipstick mark only made her look even more adorable. In Terence's eyes, she was lovely no matter what.

"Carla, now I am beginning to think that the chili is very becoming on you..."

Terence said affectionately. Carla reminded him of a little red hot chili pepper at the moment. She was indignant and so her face became red.

Carla looked up at him with sincerity in her eyes. She was surprised to see that Terence had stepped in and openly took action to care about her after tactfully asking his friends to take his fiancee away, which was a clever thing to do.

He wisely managed to avoid an ugly situation between Bonnie and Carla. Otherwise, Bonnie would never have let Carla off easily.

What was worse, if it had escalated then Terence would really have been in a dilemma.

Besides, Bonnie was after all his fiancee, so if he defended Carla in front of Bonnie, then people would make unkind remarks and accuse him of being a playboy.

However, the situation was different now.

Since Bonnie was no longer there, no matter what happened between them she wouldn't be a witness to it.

When Terence released Carla's hand, Carla remembered the lipstick mark on her face and was about to reach up to wipe it off.

"You won't be able to wipe it off. Your skin will just get irritated if you try to wipe it. I've figured out an easier way to remove it,"

Terence said in a low voice grasping Carla's hand before she raised it to her face.

"He's right! Carla, I have the makeup remover. You can use it to wipe the lipstick from your face. It's very useful."

Mrs. Xu took the bottle of makeup remover from her bag and held it out to Carla.

But before Carla got the chance to take it, Terence took it from Mrs. Xu first.

"Thank you."

Terence then took Carla's hand and led her to the bathroom.

After they had left

the people sitting at the tables nearby looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces.

It took them a while to absorb what had just happened and what was going on.

"Wow! Mr. Terence is very considerate and polite," Mrs. Xu said happily, feeling proud of herself for being wise just now.

After what unfolded in front of them, it was obvious that Bonnie was only Terence's fiancee nominally. Even though Bonnie was from a wealthy and powerful family similar to his own, Terence didn't have feelings for her. Instead, he was attracted to Carla who was fearless and frank.

Standing beside the hand basin, Terence first dampened Carla's cheek with a wet tissue and then he used the makeup remover and gently dabbed at the lipstick on her face.

When the lipstick was removed from her face, he smiled at her with satisfaction.

"How does that feel? Does it sting at all?"

He knew what to do because he had just removed the lipstick stain from his own face only a few moments ago.

"Terence, aren't you angry with me?" Carla uttered sullenly, shooting a glance at Terence who didn't look embittered at all.

Last time, Carla took away Terence's key card and kicked him out of the house.

At that time she thought that Terence would be angry at her because of it and would ignore her from there on.

After all, he was so arrogant and overbearing and wouldn't put up with her irritating him all the time. However, what she thought of him was wrong. Terence didn't seem to be annoyed with her at all.

"If I were to get angry at every annoying little thing that you ever did, I would surely go insane. And I wouldn't live long enough to enjoy my wonderful life."

Terence ran his thumb across Carla's cheek and then sighed. "Even a couple who have been married for many years might quarrel from time to time, let alone us. But we have to make up after we have an argument each time, right?

Since you don't want to make the first move then I have to do it to stop the conflict between us. After all, one of us has to give in."

Carla stared at him and pouted. "But we're not married," she responded.

Terence fixed his eyes on her for a moment as if in thought. He then took her by the hand and led her downstairs.

"Tell me where are you staying at now? Where's Sean?"

When they reached Terence's car, he opened the door for her and then got in the driver's side.

"Terence,"

Carla suddenly called out.

"What do you think you are doing? Your fiancee is in the hospital. She would be getting anxious, waiting for you to go and see her. Besides, it's not a reason to break up with her.

So you should go to the hospital right now instead of taking me back home. Your fiancee is more important than I am."

Terence gripped the steering wheel and squeezed it hard. He paused thinking for a moment and then put his foot down hard on the accelerator and sped off quickly out of the underground parking lot.

Carla didn't tell Terence where she was staying.

And Terence no longer needed to ask her.

After a short drive, Carla was surprised to find that

Terence had driven her to a hotel and got a room there for them.

"Terence, what are you trying to do?"

Carla was nearly speechless with rage wondering why he brought her to the hotel at noon.

"You have seen everything that I've done. I even got a hotel room for us." Taking Carla's hand, Terence walked up to the elevator inside the hotel. After he swiped the card, the elevator door opened and he pulled Carla inside the elevator with him.

Carla's expression had changed to that of concern and worry. She would probably have accepted what he was doing now if it was happening a few months back.

However, he was engaged now. It was highly inappropriate for him to bring her to a hotel room. If they were discovered it would certainly put them both in an embarrassing situation. Not to mention what it would do to both of their reputations.

"Don't think too much. It's hot outside and you'd best stay here and have a rest. I'll take you back to where you're staying later on today."

After the elevator had reached the top floor and opened, Terence virtually dragged Carla out of the elevator, not giving her a chance to refuse.

"Mr. Terence, this way please."

Upon seeing Terence and Carla, the porter immediately led them to the best suite at the end of the hall.

When they arrived at the suite door

Carla wasn't willing to enter the room.

The porter noticed Carla's reluctance and wisely left them alone.

He thought that Carla was an ungrateful lady and that she should feel honored that someone like Terence would bring her here.

But instead she was being difficult and even unwilling to go inside the room.

It also struck the porter that Terence had never brought any women to the hotel before and this woman was the first that he had ever seen him with here.

Carla leaned stubbornly against the door refusing to go into the room. With one hand, Terence held onto Carla so she wouldn't run away from him and with the other, he swiped the card to open the door. Once the door buzzed open he tossed the card onto the desk inside and held the door open with his foot so that it didn't close shut.

He pulled Carla to him with one strong arm and tossed her over his broad shoulders carrying her like a sack of potatoes into the room. He then dropped her unceremoniously onto the soft king-sized bed.

"Carla, you like to play hard to get. Well, that's okay. I love that too."

When Carla noticed that Terence was about to come down on top of her, she quickly rolled over and moved to one side of the bed. Through gritted teeth she said, "Terence, you're really thick skinned! You are cheating on your fiancee and have brought another woman to a hotel room with you. How dare you be so shameless! You even expect me to do the dirty with you!"

Carla glared angrily at him. But Terence wasn't annoyed at all. He simply lay on his side with his head resting on his hand and he stared at her with a cheeky grin.

"Are you saying that you want to be my secret lover? If you make love to me, Carla, and I die on the spot from exhaustion after that. It would all be worth it..."

Upon hearing Terence's rude remarks, Carla cast him a sidelong glance. She chose to ignore what he said and changed the subject. "By the way, remember the ring I asked you to investigate for me? How's it going? Have you found anything out yet?"

It had been a while since she had given Terence the ring.

She wasn't anxious about it. But she was curious to find out why her parents insisted on keeping such a valuable ring, when they could have pawned it off to get some money to pay off the expenses for medicine.

She wondered why the ring was so important.

"I have received some clues, but we still have to wait a bit longer to get more information.

I will tell you all about it as soon as I get all of the information together,"

Terence replied with a sparkle in his beautiful eyes. At that moment he gave her a big smile.

Thinking of the possible truth, he felt very pleased within himself.

But until he found out all of the details and put everything into place, he would have to hold back the excitement that he felt in his heart and keep a calm composure at all times.