Love is the Sunshine

Chapter 288 The Funeral (Part Two)

"Oh, I'm fine. They sent me back earlier so I had a good rest," she said while she returned his smile.

After a sip of his water, Noah got up and sat by her side. He gently lifted her injured leg and put it on his

thigh. He spoke again while he gave her a gentle massage, "I'm sorry, Carla. I still need several days to

take care of some necessary things. I promise I will accompany you after I'm done."

After she heard what he said, Carla hesitated for a moment but she still asked, "That's okay, Noah. I

can take care of myself. Although, now that everything is fine. Can I go back to JA City now?"

Noah's hand paused for a moment, then he asked, still with a smile, "Why, Carla? Are you missing

Sean or Terence?"

Carla somehow felt a little nervous. She raised her hand to fix her hair and hide the embarrassment

which was evident on her face. Then she answered, "I have already been far away from them for too

long. I think it's time for me to go back. Sean is still so young. I couldn't stop worrying about him. I just

really feel bad for leaving him alone."

Noah took a few moments to think about what she said before he replied with a sigh, "Carla, Mother

was hoping that we could get engaged as soon as possible. She already told all our relatives and

friends that we'll have our engagement ceremony three days later. But don't worry. Only some closed

relatives and friends will attend the ceremony."

Carla couldn't produce any words after hearing what Noah had just said.

She was completely taken aback by his words. Everybody had been busy with the funeral recently and

nobody even mentioned the engagement. Even she herself almost forgot about it.

At that moment, what Noah had just said reminded her what she had promised to Allen.

She bit her lip and after quite a while, she slowly uttered, "Noah, now that Allen had already passed

away, what's the point of us being engaged?"

Back when Allen asked her to marry Noah, she just said "yes" to comfort him. It would be too cruel to

refuse a dying man.

But at that moment, she couldn't see any point of being married to Noah after Allen's death.

Looking at her confused face, there was pain in Noah's soft brown eyes if one looked closely.

But he looked down in case she would see it. Then, with a smile he explained patiently, "Carla, only

when we get engaged can all the terms in the will be pushed through. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to

take over the family business legally. In fact, the company is already in chaos because of Father's

death. If I couldn't take over everything as soon as possible, I'm afraid it would get worse."

After a short pause, he continued, "Of course I won't get in your way if you insist on leaving. But I still

suggest that you do so after you have fully recovered from your leg injury."

Then, he continued to massage her while he said, "Or you can go back after we get engaged. Then

you can stay as long as you want."

"Noah, I......" Carla wanted to say something but she hesitated and couldn't go on.

She couldn't help but feel panic every time he mentioned their to-be engagement.

She wanted to say something to stop him. But Noah suddenly held her hand and gave her a gentle pat

to calm her down. Then he said, "What is bothering you, Carla? You don't know how to mention our

engagement to Terence, do you? Oh, Carla. You don't have to tell him if it's too hard for you. After all,

he has nothing to do with the will. And the engagement is something that we have to go through with."

After a moment of silence, he continued, "Plus, the whole engagement is only an expedient. Once the

clauses in the will are fulfilled, we can always tell everybody that we're going to cancel the wedding."

"Can I trust you, Noah?" Carla asked while she tightly bit her lip and slowly looked up at him.

Noah paused. Her question was full of uncertainty and hesitation. So he held her tightly in his arms. He

whispered into her ears while he tenderly patted her on the shoulder, "Carla, you can always trust me. I

would never ever hurt you or force you to do things you don't want to do. Truth to be told, if you have

decided that you don't want to marry me, what else could I do to stop you?"

Carla thought about his words for a while. 'He's right. It's just an engagement. We're not going to get

married right away.

If I make up my mind to be with Terence, then nobody could stop me.'

At that moment, one of the maids appeared by the door. She was afraid that she might interrupt their NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

conversation so she hesitated for a while then told them carefully, "Mr. Noah, your room is ready. And

just now, Mrs. Andrea called. She said since you haven't slept for two days you might as well go to bed

and take a good rest tonight."

"Okay, just a minute. Thank you very much," Noah replied.

Meanwhile, Carla leaned closer to look at his face. He did look sallow and tired, which was obviously

caused by lack of sleep. Then she told him, "Oh, Noah. You should go to bed right now. You had been

overworking yourself for the past few days. Take a good rest so you won't get sick."

"All right. You enjoy reading. Please wake me up before dinner. I want to eat with you," he said with a

smile. After giving her hair several gentle strokes, he stood up and left.

The smile on Carla's face faded away while she watched Noah's receding figure.

'God, I will be engaged to Noah in three days.

No, no. I need to go back to JA City before that could happen!' Carla exclaimed in her thoughts.