Carla was stunned for a moment at Noah's sudden question. But after calming her nerves, she put on a smile and answered, "There is some truth in what you're asking. After all, I don't really know much about you. You are very intimidating and look very powerful. Just like a born leader. It looks like you are from a wealthy house and in charge of people's livings.
I believe that almost every woman would fear a man like you. Don't you agree?"
After finishing her words, Carla put on a naughty smile. She reached for her juice as she needed something to calm her pounding heart. But the orange juice wasn't helpful at all.
"You're right. People around me are afraid of me." Noah did a quick evaluation of himself as he had another sip of his latte. He had to admit it. Lots of people did seem to be afraid of him, even when he pretended to put across a tender image of himself.
"But I hope you don't fear me, Miss Carla. I would really like to be friends with you. If you are afraid of me, I will definitely feel frustrated,"
Noah added with a gentle smile as he looked at her.
When Carla saw Noah's friendly smile, she couldn't help but wonder, if perhaps, she was being way too nervous and wronged him.
After all, she had no reason to fear him. She didn't do anything to upset him or go against him in any way. Was it truly necessary for her to be so over cautious? He may become suspicious about her if she put up such a guard.
"Well, how about you bring your brother at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning?
Don't refuse me. Or I will be heartbroken." As he said that, Noah pulled out two tickets and lay them on the table in front of Carla.
"Miss Carla, please give me a chance to prove to you that I'm not a scary person but in fact, quite friendly. Is that okay?"
Noah looked into her eyes with sincerity and pleaded with her. She found it hard to resist his tender smile and those beautiful amber eyes.
Carla hesitated for a moment. He really had put her on the spot. She blinked and glanced down at the tickets. Carla really didn't have much of a choice but to accept his offer. After a brief moment, she came up with an idea so that she wouldn't have to be alone with Noah and said, "By the way, Sherry called me earlier and asked about you.
How about I invite Sherry to come with us, and you can have another chance to prove to me that you really are friendly? What do you think?"
Noah's eyes twinkled and he chuckled out loud. Nodding his head, he passed her another ticket.
"Is there anyone else that you might like to bring? I've got plenty of tickets," he said waving them at her with a smile.
Carla looked at the pile of tickets in his hand. She thought for a moment as Jena's grandson and Tina's nephews would love a ticket each.
However, after rethinking it, she realized it wasn't worth it. She didn't want to feel indebted to Noah just because of a few extra free tickets.
"No one else. Just the three of us," Carla replied.
She thanked Noah for the tickets and then said goodbye.
Noah watched as Carla disappeared off into the distance. His friendly smile changed back into a cold stare and he was lost in his thoughts.
Things had become more complicated now.
If only Carla was in question, Noah would be sure that he could win her heart over.
But knowing that Terence was also involved, had suddenly made things much more difficult for him.
That being the case, he couldn't just kill Carla as he had originally thought to do, as it would prove to be too risky. He had to work out a way of getting past Terence.
In addition to everything, Bonnie was going to be engaged to Terence. So he couldn't afford to jeopardize their engagement in any way. Once Terence became engaged to Bonnie, then it would mean that he had no other feeling towards Carla.
And with Terence out of the picture, he had a chance to win Carla's heart.
It would be more beneficial to Noah if he married Carla, instead of killing her.
Carla was the only biological daughter of the Hua family. She would ultimately inherit all of the properties and assets. As for Noah, if he succeeded in marrying the only heiress of the Hua family, whatever had belonged to him now, would still belong to him in the future.
No. He would have even more than that.
But the biggest problem now was to get Carla to trust him and win her heart. Once he became the son-in-law of the Hua family, instead of an adopted son, he wouldn't need to worry about losing his wealth anymore.
And only when Carla had completely fallen in love with him, would he confidently bring her back to the Hua family to meet her biological parents.
However, if he failed to get her to fall in love with him and marry him, then he would do everything in his power to stop her from ever going back to the Hua family by whatever means necessary.
When Carla had arrived home, she waved the tickets in front of Sean and told him that they would be going to the Century Amusement Park tomorrow. Sean jumped up and down with joy.
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