True Love Waits

"You didn't know? She killed a patient. She prescribed counterfeit medication where real drugs were necessary. And the patient died. Think I haven't asked someone to help her? Now she's in deep enough doo-doo where I can't help her. What do you know? You're just a kid!"

Sheffield breathed heavily as he digested his father's words. 'Mom's patient died because of her? And she prescribed counterfeit medication?' Not until then did he know why his mother was locked up. "That's impossible! My mother would never do anything like that!"

His father sighed heavily and said, "It's true. Even I couldn't save her."

But they were a couple, and his father did what he could to help Ingrid. She had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. But she got out after serving two years for good behavior.

Prison wasn't kind to her. She never was able to get a good night's sleep, and her dietary habits suffered. She was under a lot of stress, which affected her health.

Not long after she was released, Ingrid died.

That year, Sheffield was eleven. Despite the young age, he had tasted the bitterness of the world. In order to make a name for himself, by this time, he had fought in the streets for 3 years. He did well in school, though, and was about to skip the third year of junior high.

He had to bury his mother all by himself.

Seven days after his mother died, three million dollars was wired into his account.

Since he was a minor, Sheffield's father checked the account and found out. He asked where the money came from.

"I earned it," Sheffield said nonchalantly.

An eleven-year-old child netted three million, just like that; it shocked everyone in the Tang family.

Sheffield was smart. Otherwise, he wouldn't have skipped grades continuously and was ready to jump from grade 8 to grade 10 at the age of 11.

But no one believed he could make three million.

So Sheffield's father did what he felt he had to, and grabbed a whip. Then he asked, "How did you make that much? Are you involved with some bad people?"

designed something and auctioned it off," he explained

"What did you design?"

"A weapon!"

believed that. His father used the whip on him. The old man cursed him, saying

send Sheffield to America, but he continued his studies in Y

sent him to M Country. He stayed there for

to escape being hunted down,

didn't tell Evelyn about this. He only told her things about his mother, and said that he had buried his mother

he felt at that time, but his sadness

of understand why Sheffield was trying to

a long while, Sheffield said nothing. Evelyn tried to ask, "So, you want to clear

was smart. Sheffield fiddled with her Cat's Eye ring and

more than ten years. It would not be easy

his lap. Evelyn struggled to rise, but Sheffield wrapped his arms tight around her waist. "You don' need to help me. Just trust me.

face, Evelyn glared at him. "Can't you tell me this without keeping me

this is for our ears only. What

that this was a glass

you so afraid of people seeing us?" asked

I have a

drawled. "What do you think Joshua will say if I

"Why don't you send it to

I'm so handsome that my future father-in-law feels threatened by my

closer and kissed her lips.

stand him anymore. "Are you going to eat or

let's eat," Sheffield said immediately, not wanting to anger her. "But I need to do something

in his arms, it was a