True Love Waits

During the meal, Sheffield rested his chin on his hand as he watched Evelyn gracefully drink her wine. "Evelyn, I am so much in love with you. What spell have you cast on me?" After a pause, Evelyn asked, "How many women have you said that to?"

"Only you. You are the one I love the most in the world." His words were genuine; there was not a drop of lie in them.

Evelyn couldn't help laughing. "Yet, you stand beside another woman right in front of me."

Sheffield sighed. He felt it was time to explain his intentions to her. She had the rights to know. "I don't care about Dollie; it's Sidell whom I'm trying to get close to."

"What do you mean?"

"Evelyn, do you know why I chose to be a doctor?" No one knew the truth.

But to reassure her that she was the only one he loved, he had to tell her everything.

Evelyn stopped eating.

But Sheffield didn't continue.

She raised her eyes to look at the man sitting opposite her. He was lost in thought, and his eyes had turned gloomy, without the usual cheerfulness.

This was the first time Evelyn had seen him this way. He looked more mature than ever.

But this melancholy side of his kind of... broke her heart.

Everyone had their own secrets of the past, which they kept to themselves, just like Evelyn did. She had never told anyone about her ex-boyfriend and Melody Song.

his plate and said

Sheffield and Dollie show up together at the gathering in the video, she was angry, but she wasn't stupid. Even while

least, she could tell from the way he looked at Dollie that he didn't love her. There was no passion or affection in his eyes; it

said that he

hand, and kissed it. "Evelyn, my mom passed away fifteen years ago. At that time, she was only forty-five, and I

while they were in D City. He had told her playfully that his father had a

angel to me.

her chopsticks down and stared intently at the

softened as he thought about

she didn't come home for two days. It was normal for her, because work was her life. Most of the time, she

drugs," he said in a heavy voice, looking out the window. His hold on Evelyn's hand

Evelyn with a bitter, sarcastic smile. "The one who had testified against her

children were too young to tell right from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify in court. The witness' testimony was to be verified, and

Ingrid's case, the testimonies of that little girl

home, looking for his parents. He

would be all right. He had believed

sent him to a school in America. Later, Sheffield's half-brother told him that

asking for permission to come back. His father not only forbade him from coming back, but also

then old and isolated from the

lost the light in her eyes and her beauty. She seemed much older in such a short time. She was only in her

smiled for the first time in

in shock. He wanted to yell, "You are not my