Love is the Sunshine novel Chapter 78

"Sean. I feel so lucky to have you as my little brother. If that's what you really want, then I look forward to seeing the day you turn all of that into reality."

Tears started welling up in her bloodshot eyes. She wrapped her arms around Sean and had him in her clutch for a long while, much like how they had always depended on each other through the years.

The night soon grew darker. Carla tucked Sean in his bed moments after he fell asleep. As she was walking toward her room, her phone suddenly buzzed.

Without even checking who was calling her, she immediately picked up the phone. "Who is this?" she asked.

"It's me."

From the sound of her voice, Terence could easily tell that she seemed quite exhausted and was about to go to bed. With a heavy heart, he got so infuriated, "Are you seriously about to go to bed? You've got to be kidding me. How can you sleep so easily knowing everything that happened?!"

Realizing that it was Terence calling, she yawned and took a glance at the clock hanging on the wall. Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she squinted and saw that the clock was about to strike one in the morning.

With a lazy voice, she replied, "What are you on about? So what if I'm going to bed? It's already way past midnight. What else should I possibly be doing at this time?"

Terence couldn't stop himself from getting upset, but he tried his best to, at least, calm himself down a bit. Taking in a deep breath, he blurted out, "Woman, how cold of you. I thought that you might be losing sleep tonight after the conversation we had earlier. I've been patiently waiting for quite a long time for an opportunity to sneak out of my ward. They finally let their guard down just so I could call you and explain everything to you.

It seems like you were never really interested to hear my explanation at all. You don't seem to care about everything that's happening regarding the engagement nor with whom I am going to be engaged with! You're really breaking my heart, Carla. Do you know that?"

Only then was Carla finally able to understand why he was so pissed off that she was about to go to bed. He had been caught up in a difficult situation, and yet, there she was, about to sleep soundly at night. She didn't turn the lights on in her room, so as she was staring blankly in the darkness, she calmly mumbled, "Terence, it's not that I don't care. I don't really have any right to say anything about your engagement, do I? Most of all, I've seen this day coming from a mile away. I've told you not just once, but countless times before. A man of your caliber can't be together with a woman like me. I've been preparing myself for this day ever since we got together, possibly even way before that so it didn't come as a surprise when I found out that you were bound to get married to another woman. No matter how hard you have tried, what's not meant to be, won't be."

All that followed was a moment of silence after Carla said her piece.

"So, that's why you never gave me a chance to be intimate with you. You never really believed that I was being true to you, and in turn, you've persuaded yourself that one day, I'll be leaving you. Is that correct? Instead of falling so deeply in love with me and looking forward to our future together, you chose to let go and give up on us so easily just like that. Is that right?" Terence carefully asked.

Carla didn't deny any of his accusations.