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.

put a piece of spiced salt chicken on his plate and said

she was angry, but she wasn't stupid. Even while he was holding Dollie

looked at Dollie that he didn't love her. There was no passion or affection in his eyes; it was nothing like the way

time, because he said that

passed away fifteen years ago. At that

his family once, while they were in

was like an angel to me. She was

stared intently at the man who was now lost in

as he thought about his

old, I had skipped to the fifth grade, while my peers were still in the second or the third grade. Mom was always so busy, but I still worked extra hard so that I could be 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 in the hospital. But three days after that, news spread all over the city that Ingrid Chu, the director of the nephrology department of First General Hospital, treated

testified against her 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

a bitter, sarcastic smile. "The one who had testified against her was a five-year-old

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

in Ingrid's case, the testimonies of that little

lot of people come to their home, looking for his parents.

would be

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

called his father many times, asking for permission to come back. His father not only forbade him from coming

then old and isolated from the outside

and her beauty. She seemed much older in such a short time. She was only in her forties, but

the first time in so many days. "Sheffield!

He wanted to