Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 212

As soon as they returned from their beach trip, Terence grabbed breakfast together with Carla and then he headed back to the company immediately.

That was on a Sunday. So, Carla just decided to stay at home and hang out with Sean. And even though she wasn't any good at playing basketball, she still wanted to play with him anyway.

Basketball was the only pastime Sean was truly interested in. With Carla being his sister, she thought that she should at least give his favorite sport a chance, otherwise, they could end up having nothing to talk about in the future.

Initially, she could barely even hold the basketball well, causing her to be laughed at by Sean.

Sean used to look up to her, but now that Terence was around, it seemed as though he had taken her place in Sean's life.

"Hello? Noah..."

Her mobile phone suddenly rang, so Carla flung the basketball toward the court and picked up the phone, a little bit out of breath.

Noticing that she was panting, Noah's eyebrows furrowed in an instant. "Carla, is now... a good time for you to be taking a call? Because if not, I can just call you later. That's totally fine."

It looked as though Noah got the wrong idea about what she was doing. He actually thought she was in the middle of having...

Realizing that, Carla was cracking up so much, and she said, "Noah, what was it that you thought I was doing? I was out on the court playing some basketball with my brother!"

"Oh, so that's what was happening." A grin crept up on Noah's face, feeling quite embarrassed as he had utterly misread the situation and took her gasping for air as being due to something else. "Carla, are you busy right now? Would you be able to come and see me? I'm actually in JA City at this moment."

Carla looked at the watch and checked what time it was. It was barely just ten in the morning.

"Okay, sure. Where would you like to meet?" Right after deciding on the time and the place, she headed straight toward the villa to get dressed and get ready.

Upon her arrival at their designated meeting place, she saw that Noah was already waiting for her and had already taken a seat at one of the tables.

"Sorry for being late. Did you wait too long?" Carla glanced at her watch. Due to the fact that she had been sweating all morning after playing basketball with Sean, she needed to take a shower and put on a fresh change of clothes. To add to that, she also got caught in traffic.

"It's totally fine. No need to worry about it," Noah reassured her, letting out a gentle smile as he watched her looking a bit uneasy.

Carla could tell he was just being nice. Taking a seat across him, she took a sip of the water and asked, seeming to be so worried, "How are you? How are things going? Are you already feeling any better?"

"Certainly. I've been doing fine. I've already gotten discharged from the hospital, haven't I?" Noah replied, with a smile still glued to his face. But she noticed in an instant there was a shadow underneath his dark eyes. Wasting no time at all, his tone abruptly turned serious and he asked, "Carla, There's actually something that I've been meaning to ask you. Forgive me, but I'm gonna have to cut to the chase. To tell you the truth, I've been implored to ask about it."

Seeing him suddenly getting serious, Carla gathered herself together.

"What's the matter? Why did you get serious all of a sudden? If there's something you wanna know, you can go ahead and ask," Carla responded.

Noah lowered his gaze a little, but her response caused him to smile even if just a little.

"Carla, have you ever wondered where you came from?"

The second she heard his question, Carla had gotten caught so off guard that she instantly stopped in her tracks as she held a white cup of coffee. When she finally came to her senses, shaking her head, she answered, "No, I haven't really thought of that. Why are you asking about it?"

Noah had always been so kind and sweet, much like a warm gentle breeze. Upon hearing her answer, he shook his head ever so slightly and took a quick sip of his coffee.

"Oh, I was just wondering. There's this friend of mine who happened to see you one time. She mentioned how you were the spitting image of her daughter, someone who had been missing for many years now. For that reason, she asked me to look into it."

Everything happened so fast. Noah's questions were surprising, but he brought up the topic into the conversation as swiftly and reasonably as he could, making it somewhat easier to understand.

Carla bobbed her head and remarked, "Then your friend would most probably be disappointed. Despite the fact that there's a significant age gap between Sean and myself, I can say for certain that I wasn't adopted. Without a shadow of a doubt!"

Else, how could anyone have kept this secret going on for so long? If she were really an adopted daughter, she surely would've heard something about it by now.

"Moreover, given that the friend you mentioned had lost her daughter so many years ago, how could she even know what she would look like at this point? Just where did she get the idea that I looked just like her long lost daughter? That makes zero sense to me."

Noah simply smiled at her reaction and nodded. "You have a point. However, blood ties couldn't ever be severed. There would be cases where even though you hadn't met yet, you would still be able to somehow feel it."

"Is that so? Then where's this friend you've been talking about? If she truly thinks that I look an awful lot like her daughter, I wouldn't mind hanging out with her every now and then. After all, I could understand just how much a mother could miss her lost child," retorted Carla, being so deep in thought about it.

Since it was one of Noah's trusted friends, she was probably a nice and trustworthy woman. At least that was what Carla was thinking.

It was not like Noah really agreed to it or anything, but he simply said, "Okay, I'll make sure to tell her you said that. If she says yes and she's interested, then I'll let you know right away."

Carla didn't say a word and simply nodded along. Despite the fact that she wasn't really taking his words seriously, in a way, it was able to plant a seed well beneath her heart.