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

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 feel no intimacy

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

because he said that he

mom passed away fifteen years

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

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 day. I was only eight years old when

stared intently at the

as he

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.

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

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

couldn't testify in court. The witness' testimony was to be verified, and then,

case, the testimonies of that little girl were

saw a lot 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

everything would be all right.

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

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

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

light in her eyes 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

Sheffield, she smiled for the first time in so many

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