Love is the Sunshine

Chapter 177 The Expired Juice (Part One)

Bonnie despised Carla so much to the point that she resorted to hiring gunmen to abduct her.

Noah was Bonnie's elder brother and the eldest of the four Hua siblings. Needless to say, being next to

him made Carla feel so uneasy.

The hand that Noah reached out to Carla was shaking. Realizing that Carla suddenly went on the

defensive, he let out a soft smile on that lean and handsome face of his.

Taking a small step forward, he looked down at Carla, seeming to be in a state of shock. "Carla, even

though Bonnie is my sister, we are totally different. I'm not like her. You don't have to keep your guard

up when you're around me. Whatever it is that happened between you and my sister won't affect our

friendship."

After saying that in an attempt to reassure her that she could trust him, Noah grabbed onto her arm and

snatched the heavy bag from her hand, then he walked over to his Land Rover which was parked just

across the road.

He placed the bag right in the back seat of his car and, just like any gentleman would, he opened the

door of the front passenger seat for her.

Noah could see as bright as day that Carla was still so hesitant about getting into his car or not, so he

nudged her to get in and carefully closed the door.

"Mr. Noah, I'm not sure... Oh, my God!" Before she could finish what she was trying to say, Noah

suddenly hit the ignition without warning. She was so startled that she couldn't hold herself back from

screaming.

As it turned out, he was a bit upset. Despite the fact that it wasn't literally written on his face that he

was angry, she was somehow able to sense it.

She had no clue why Noah could possibly be mad.

'If he wasn't really happy to see me, then he can just ignore me for all I care!' Carla thought.

She took a deep breath once she got used to his driving speed. Then, she fastened her seat belt and

held on for dear life with a tight grip on the handrail on the roof of the car.

"... Mr. Noah, I didn't see Miss Julie back there. Have you already driven her back?"

She tried striking up a conversation to ease up the tension inside the car.

Carla glanced at Noah and saw a deadpan look on his face. She wasn't able to get a read on him, so

she was beginning to get even more scared.

Terence was far from being like that. No matter how furious he might get whenever he was in front of

her, Carla couldn't ever sense the slightest tinge of danger coming from him.

Noah always seemed like such a shrewd and cunning man that Carla tended to get nervous and

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"She has already gone home," Noah briefly replied.

What really happened was that the minute they exited the department store, he immediately told Julie

to head home first by herself.

"Where are you heading to? You're going the wrong way. This road isn't the way to my house," Carla

sobbed, her voice trembling under so much fear for what Noah might be scheming. Without anything

else to grab on to, she just tightly held the bag in her hand.

When all was said and done, Noah was still Bonnie's eldest brother. Just as the old but famous proverb

went, 'Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.' 'Bonnie was such a ruthless woman.

Could it be possible that she just actually got all of those traits from her eldest brother, Noah?' Carla

pondered.

Knowing full well that she was getting restless, Noah forced out a smile from the corners of his mouth,

"What seems to be the problem? You're already inside my car. What are you being so scared of?" Are

you afraid that I might gobble you up and swallow you whole or something?"

"I..." Biting her lips, all Carla could do was stare at him.

Truth be told, she didn't actually enter the car of her own volition. She had just been forced to do so

against her will.

"Do you see me as some kind of man-eater? Or is it that you've actually seen me eat someone

before?" Planning to poke even more fun at her, Noah decided to turn the car around when he came

upon a big corner and started driving into a remote place.

The road was surrounded by some reeds. Dark shadows were looming all over the area and hiding in

the breeze, frightening Carla much, much more.

Carla was already trembling with fear, but she tried her best to shake it off. Without saying a word, she

simply bit her lip even harder.

"The air is quite peaceful here and there's even a river just around the bend. If I were to really do

anything to you, It would be a great idea to just dump your body and toss you over at that river and let

the rapids drag you some place farther," Noah carefully said, as if laying out his plans, and then he

grabbed a cigar from the glove box and proceeded to light one up for himself.

Carla was shivering in cold sweat. Biting her lip even harder and trying to act composed, she cautiously

peered at Noah and questioned him, "Mr. Noah, do you have any reason to try to kill me?

Are you perhaps blaming me for getting in the way of your family's plans?"

Carla's thoughtless question caused Noah's eyes to darken and his teeth to clutch lightly. He then

turned and fixated his eyes upon her. Although, before he could begin to say anything, she added, "I

know everyone in your family might have gotten so upset when they found out that Terence had broken

off the engagement with Bonnie. But... but that decision was not mine to make. I don't have any say on

that matter. I don't think I'm the one that you should blame for it."

Terence didn't love Bonnie, he never really did. That being said, even if Carla never came to his life, he

probably still wouldn't have agreed to the engagement.

Rolling down the window, Noah stretched out his hand to flick the ash off his cigar. Before giving her

any form of response, he took another puff of smoke from it.

"I've already said a few times before that I'm not mad and I won't ever be mad at you just because of

what became of Bonnie. And yet here you go still doubting me."

When he was finally done smoking his cigar, Noah flicked it outside the window on the side of the road,

and then