True Love Waits

Sheffield was stunned for a moment, and stared at Evelyn with a complicated look in his eyes. He now understood why she was suffering from depression. "What happened to your fourth boyfriend?" "We broke up, just before I came here. The phone calls earlier were from him." Calvert Ji, Evelyn's fourth boyfriend, was pressured by his family to break up with her.

"Why did you break up?" Sheffield dug. 'Was that guy afraid that he'd get killed?' he thought.

Evelyn took a deep breath before continuing in a self-mocking tone, "He's the only son in his family. So naturally, they are afraid that I'll bring bad luck to him too and kill him someday. I'm a jinx in their eyes. Of course, that's not the only reason. You already know by now that I'm kind of weird, cold and unapproachable. We had a lot of problems getting along."

She was hoping to frighten Sheffield away by telling him about her horrible past. Who in their right mind would want a girlfriend that would bring bad luck to them?

"I see." After silently cursing her ex-boyfriends in his mind, he told her with a relaxed smile, "That's not a big deal. I don't believe in jinxes. And you know what? My dad has been married thrice. And I have a bucket full of half-brothers. Besides, my dad doesn't like me very much. He would be glad if I got killed. So, Evelina, I'm not afraid to be with you."

He flashed a mischievous smile and spread his arms again, waiting for her to throw herself onto him.

Evelyn sighed inwardly.

A part of her wished he was being serious.

"Stop kidding around." After dropping those words, she avoided his stretched arms and continued to walk on. The scenery became more breathtaking as they walked along the banks of the brook running through the woods. But Evelyn was immersed in her own sorrows.

Although Carlos had tried his best to block any news about the mysterious deaths of her ex-boyfriends, still, the shocking information reached many prying ears. Evelyn knew how they talked about her behind her back. She was considered a jinx who brought deaths to her boyfriends. On the surface, she didn't care about what people said, but deep down, she was devastated.

Now that Sheffield knew her story, he could fully understand why she had turned down his love.

On one hand, they had only met yesterday. It was perfectly normal that she didn't believe him. On the other hand, she had just broken up with her boyfriend, and the deaths of her three ex-boyfriends had cast a dark shadow in her heart.

Everything about her reaction made sense now.

Sheffield trotted towards her and grabbed her hand. "Just ten days, please? Let's try to get along for ten days."

Evelyn silently looked at their intertwined hands. She wanted to say yes.

elephants made its way through the jungle some distance away from them. Evelyn stopped and watched them, a blank look in her eyes. She

pestering her and even kissed her without her consent. But, she didn't hate him for it, and wasn't really mad

of bringing bad luck to him stopped her from accepting his deal.

if reading her mind, Sheffield persuaded again, "Worst case scenario, even if you really are a jinx, it's impossible that I would die in

She remained silent.

smiled, rubbing her soft, creamy-white hands. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't press you. You came here to relax, but I'm just

really...' Evelyn wanted to say,

go. It's really rare to find a herd of wild elephants here.

"Mm hmm."

filled with mysteries. Sheffield led her through the jungle, climbed up a hill and found a spot with the best view. They

the fresh air. "We are so lucky. This trip

the tourists wrote comments saying that they didn't find any elephants. She didn't expect to be lucky enough to see a herd. "Look."

was pointing at, and saw two peacocks

on the trees happily. When she looked

dare bring me here by himself. Why are you so confident that I'll be safe with you? If you really like me, why did you bring me to such a dangerous

from his pocket. "Because I have this. I

a sheathed scalpel. When he unsheathed it,

you the deputy director of the nephrology department? Do you still need to operate on

only in name. Most of the time,

ask, "Then why do you have

my way to that position. It's

promotion before being officially transferred to

The dean doesn't want me to quit my job, so he gave me

into it. She only needed to know why he was good at using

blissful hours at the Elephant Valley, they

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