Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 135

"Carla! "

Sean screamed.

Carla had already tumbled to the ground. She was wincing in pain as she held her ankle gingerly. Carla glanced at Sean signaling for her brother that she was all right and to stop screaming. There were only two steps left, so how bad could she have gotten hurt?

Then she looked across and saw that Terence and Bonnie were walking towards her.

"Err— I'm fine. My brother finished his homework and insisted that I come down with him. I'm sorry to disturb you,"

she said as she waved at them. Carla got up quickly and hobbled on her injured ankle hurriedly into the elevator with Sean.

"Terence—"

Bonnie held on to Terence's arm as he was about to stride over to the elevator. Her beautiful eyes gazed at him and she said in a soft voice, "Terence, I'm your fiancee. If Carla can stay in your home, surely I can as well. Can't I?"

Terence looked down at her hand that was stopping him from going to Carla. A shadow of darkness flashed through his eyes, making it hard for others to figure out what he was thinking.

"Bonnie, your being my fiancee is exactly the reason why you couldn't stay here. You are different from other women—

... I'll have someone take you back."

Then, Terence broke loose from her hold and without explaining any further to her, he called the driver.

After that, he turned on his heels and briskly walked into the elevator.

Bonnie stood rooted to the spot as she helplessly watched Terence leave. She felt desolate and miserable in her heart. She was his fiancee, but Terence still wouldn't touch her in a way that lovers do.

Nonsense!

Her brother had said, that if a man didn't want to touch a woman even if he could, it could only mean one of two possibilities, that either he didn't love her or he loved her too much.

It was obvious what Terence felt about her.

Bonnie had planned to leave with the driver. However, curiosity got the better of her.

She wanted to see for herself how Terence had behaved with Carla when she wasn't there.

Was it true that Carla was only his life-saver and he was grateful?

Or, were they actually romantically involved?

"I'm not feeling very well. Wait for me outside, please. I will only be a moment. I need to go to the bathroom,"

said Bonnie to the driver, who was waiting for her.

"Yes, Miss Hua." The driver nodded respectfully and left to wait for her outside.

When the driver was gone, Bonnie quietly crept up the stairs.

On the third floor, Carla slowly limped towards her room. Sean couldn't do anything to help his sister because he was only small and didn't have the strength to hold her.

When she was halfway down the hall, she turned and saw that Terence was coming out of the elevator.

"Sean, you can go back to your room. I'll help your sister." Then he briskly walked up to Carla and put his arm around her waist helping her walk to his bedroom.

Sean was relieved when he saw Terence coming. He nodded and did what he was told.

Terence kicked the door open and helped Carla to the sofa.

"Tell me where you hurt yourself?"

asked Terence as he reached for her ankle.

"Ah! Be gentle!" Carla shrieked in pain as she instinctively pushed his hand away and held her ankle protectively.

He gently moved her hand away and felt her ankle. "The bone doesn't appear to be broken. You have sprained your ankle badly. But it should be all right with some compress and an ice pack."

Terence came back shortly afterward with a compress bandage and an ice pack. He gently wrapped the bandage around her ankle to stop the swelling and elevated her foot on a stool while he applied an ice pack to her ankle.

"This ointment works very well too. Apply it two to three times once the swelling goes down and you'll be okay."