Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 281

'What is going on?' Carla thought to herself.

Andrea was staring at her with red sorrowful eyes. Everybody was in the room except for Bonnie.

Noah was standing by the window silently. He was looking into the distance with his arms crossed.

Two young men were also standing by the door, wearing serious looks.

"Auntie, what's wrong?"

Carla asked. She had no clue about what was happening at the moment. Why was everybody in her room?

"Callie, my dear!"

Andrea walked closer to her and suddenly grabbed her hand. Then she started to cry. "Your father, he's in the ICU. The doctor said that we should prepare for the... I don't know how to tell you this. The truth is..."

"Auntie, what do you mean by 'my father'? I... My father was already..."

Carla was totally confused. Her parents both died when she was young.

What was happening?

"Callie, I'm sorry. It's hard to explain everything right now but you're indeed my daughter. My biological daughter..."

Andrea was in tears. She was planning on waiting for a couple of days before telling her the truth but Allen's condition suddenly got worse. At dawn, he was rushed in the ICU.

She was completely at a loss. If she didn't take the chance to tell her now, there might be no chance to tell her about everything at all.

She was afraid that Allen would die with regrets.

"Carla, your original name is Camelia. You were called Callie. You're our only biological daughter. Because of a debt twenty three years ago, you were forced to leave us. From then on, every moment seemed like torture to us. I'm sorry."

Tears rushed down from Andrea's eyes. She couldn't bear to talk about what happened twenty years ago. Just being reminded of it would make her heart ache as if a knife was cutting through her with it.

"I know that it's not the good time to tell you all of these but I have no choice. Your father has only a few days left. His time is ticking. He's in the ICU now and he may pass away at any moment. I... am begging you..."

Then she suddenly knelt down on the floor in front of her and started crying.

"I know it's a lot for you to process but your father can't wait anymore. Callie, would you please forgive us and visit your father? Can you please call him Father for the last time?"

Confused, Carla glanced at Noah who was standing by the window. She wanted to turn to him for help. "Noah, what's happening? Can you please explain it to me?"

Noah turned and looked at her in the eye. He was wearing a look that was more serious than usual.

"Carla, what my mother said is true. You are their only biological daughter. Everyone else was adopted. As am I. It was kept a secret and only a few people are aware of that, even inside our own clan."

While speaking, Noah furrowed his eyebrows and stared at her intently. "That's why I asked you to come to HA City."

"When you left the Hua Family at a young age, you were sold to a new family. They were your foster parents. After your foster parents passed away, you kept living with your brother Sean.

All those years, Mother and Father were trying to find you. It's not their fault that you were lost to them. I hope that you will forgive them,"

Noah explained it in a way that was not too hard for Carla to accept. However, it still came as quite a shock to Carla.

Allen's health was failing and he only had a few days left. He was struggling to hold on just to meet his daughter.

Carla's mind was in a mess. She shook her head while trying hard to process all of what was currently happening around her.

"Auntie, are you really my biological mother?" Carla looked at her and asked. She tried to search even the slightest trace of kinship from Andrea.

Andrea nodded and looked back at her with watery eyes. "Yes. If you don't believe me, look at this. This is the photo that was taken when I was young. I looked like you, right?"

Andrea got more and more excited while speaking to her. She took out a black and white photo and a mirror from her bag and handed them to Carla.

Carla scrutinized the figure on the photo. She memorized the eyes, the facial features and everything. Then she looked into the mirror to look at herself. She did find some resemblances.

Only...