Love is the Sunshine

"Promise me, Carla. Don't put your life at risk the way you just did. You really scared me, taking Sean with you and leaving like this. You know I can't bear to see you two get hurt," Terence sincerely told her. Terence didn't want to blame her. He was actually rejoicing inside for getting Carla back in one piece when the girl just drove a car out without having a license. But in all honestly, that was the least of his concerns. What was more important for him was she didn't really know how to drive properly. Terence didn't know what he could do if something happened particularly because Carla did it from misunderstanding his actions. He could really thank his lucky stars that Carla and Sean were both safe.

Carla's eyes glared at him. She cocked her head to one side and stated, "Don't try to avoid the topic. I wouldn't have left if you hadn't pissed me off."

Her temper quickly boiled as she listened to Terence.

However, if she were being honest, she also got scared of her recklessness.

"Yeah, I admit. It was my fault," Terence softly said. Terence didn't argue with her. He just apologized and carried Carla in his arms all the way upstairs.

Once he managed to get Carla into his room, Terence locked the door really tight, in case she wanted to run away again.

"I assume you're thirsty. Here, have some milk..." Terence told her as he handed her the glass of milk that he fetched. Carla had been on the plane for the whole night and flew into a series of anger afterward. So her belly must be rumbling in hunger.

Carla ignored his kindness. She just sat on the sofa, sulking, with her arms wrapped around her legs.

Terence sat beside her and sighed very softly. He started to explain, "It was really a long story. I never wanted you to know about her at first, since I didn't know about this at that time.

And I didn't think that I would meet her ever again.

I didn't know where she was until that time when I went to see you in HA City. I went to Entertainment Club first, and that was where I met her."

Hearing this, Carla suddenly turned to Terence. She thought, 'Entertainment Club? Was she the woman who worked there?'

"Don't be too surprised. You've seen her before. She was the girl in the photo, remember that? Her name is Erica Su. Everyone in the Entertainment Club calls her Erica," Terence continued to clarify.

Carla's eyes widened as words came out of Terence's mouth.

'Erica? !' The name rang in Carla's head.

"I assume you must know what she does for a living. So it must be obvious by now that nothing would ever happen between her and me. I went to see her because I found out that I had some responsibility regarding her present situation. Therefore, I asked my men to bring her here," Terence patiently narrated.

As he carefully watched Carla, he realized that she hadn't recovered from being in shock. So he stuffed the glass of milk into her hands and said, "Have some. It will help ease your mind. The rest of the things that I'm about to tell you will be more surprising."

Indeed, it was too much for Carla. She took a sip of the milk and instantly felt a slight sense of satisfaction. Terence was right about her hunger.

After seeing her reaction to the milk, Terence continued, "Back when I was serving in the army, my head got injured in a field training. Part of my memory was lost. I couldn't remember everything about her and some other things for that matter. After that, my grandpa sent her away.

since then, I haven't seen her

a heavy sigh. All along, Carla thought that HA City was her bad luck since a lot of unpleasant things happened while she was there. She now realized that the place was also Terence's

her because I wanted to know what exactly happened at that time. I don't want to

had been ten years since then, he still wanted Carla to know

eager to know everything that happened between

eyebrows and stated, "Do you think I'm a child? Like I'm two years old or so? We're not in a

anything to defend himself. Instead, he stood up, grabbed

She asked after glancing at what Terence had

make it all up. And I only lost a very small part of my

he pointed at the diagnosis to let Carla

lot that she couldn't understand in the diagnosis, but she looked at the date. It was ten years ago, which matched Terence's

proof, Carla's temper slowly started

is the only woman that you forgot about?" she then asked as she watched Terence in doubt.

knowing another

else except this woman? Or maybe next time, a woman will just bring one of your sons out of nowhere," Carla sternly

replied, "I think you're

for your sake, I could swear I remember everything else clearly. I called it an accident because it

her eyes. She took another sip from the glass and asked, "So, what did you find out from talking

silent for a

Carla. We were indeed in a relationship at that time. I was too young then, you know. After having spent a lot of time together, we

Terence's face. She

her? Are you sure you didn't do anything else with

fair eyes squinted and

little ashamed at what she had just implied. "Gosh, I mean, did you two—

wipe off the milk

was seventeen then. Neither of us was an adult. You think I would dare to do that thing with her?" Terence calmly

knows? Boys often know about things like that at a very young age. I didn't know you at that time so I wouldn't know if you will hesitate to do it with a

blurted out when she felt Terence's fingers

glared at Terence.

her on the cheek. He raised his eyebrows as

was trying to tease her. But on the contrary,

young. We were of similar ages, so we often hung out with each other. I liked her very much at that time. That was why I often played with her. When we were climbing the mountain together, the elders thought we were in

relationship. It was Erica who set my mind straight. She made me realize that we were only good friends. We just had more common interests than everyone else. But we were never