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.

plate and said gently, "Forget it. Let's eat.

but she wasn't stupid. Even while he

way he looked at Dollie that he didn't love her. There was

at the time, because he said that he liked her, but

fifteen years ago.

mentioned his family once, while they were in D City. He had told her playfully that his

had a good heart and was always so concerned about her patients. My mother was like an angel to me. She was

and stared intently at the man who was now lost in his

softened as he thought

Once, she didn't come home for two days. It was normal for her, because work was her life. Most of the time, she ate and stayed in the hospital. But three days after that, news spread

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

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

tell right from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify in court. The witness' testimony was to be verified, and then, it could be turned

in Ingrid's case, the testimonies of that

of people come to their home, looking for his parents. He asked his parents what was going on, but no one told him anything. He was a kid,

comforted him, saying that everything would be

Ingrid was arrested, Sheffield's father sent him to a school in

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

was then old and isolated from the

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

smiled for the first time in so

in shock. He wanted to yell, "You are not my mother!" But she