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

Dollie show up together at the gathering in the video, she was angry, but

Dollie that he didn't love her. There was no passion or affection in

just angry at the time, because he said that he liked her, but still had Dollie by his

her left hand, and kissed it. "Evelyn, my mom passed away fifteen years

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

mother was like an angel to me. She was beautiful and gentle, and my father was good to her too. But everything changed one day. I was only eight years old

at the man who was now lost in his

as he thought

like her someday. 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

for trading fake drugs," he said in a heavy voice, looking out the window. His hold on Evelyn's hand tightened, as if he was trying to restrain his

smile. "The one who had testified against

from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify

testimonies of that little girl were taken strongly into

collected against Ingrid. At that time, Sheffield saw a lot of people come to their home, looking for

that everything would be all right.

school in America. Later, Sheffield's half-brother told him that his

father many times, asking for permission to come back. His father not only forbade him from coming back, but also arranged bodyguards to make sure that he studied

then old and isolated from the outside world. His grandpa then contacted someone who eventually brought him back to

beauty. She seemed much older in such a short time. She was only in her forties, but most of her hair had turned grey and she had lost a lot

Sheffield, she smiled for the first time in so many days. "Sheffield!

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