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.

salt chicken on his plate and said gently, "Forget it. Let's eat. I

had seen Sheffield and Dollie show up together at the gathering in the video, she was angry, but she wasn't stupid. Even while he was holding Dollie in his arm, she could

her. There

time, because he said that

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

once, while they were in D City. He had told

the nephrology department too. She had a good heart and was always so concerned about her patients. My mother was like an angel to me. She was beautiful and gentle, and my father was good to her too. But everything changed one

her chopsticks down and stared intently at

as he

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

looking out the window. His hold on Evelyn's

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

from wrong and articulate clearly, they couldn't testify

that little girl

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

that everything would be all right. He

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

permission to come back. His father not only forbade him from coming

to contact his grandfather, who was then old and isolated from the outside world. His grandpa then contacted

and her 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 of

smiled for the first time in so many days. "Sheffield! You're back?"

woman in shock. He wanted