True Love Waits

Evelyn adjusted her clothes and said nothing.

Sheffield walked over to his desk and dug into the shopping bag sitting there. There was a pen inside. An expensive one, made of gold, encrusted with precious resin.

He then kissed the brand-new pen and winked at Evelyn. "I love it! A gift from Evelyn! I'll treasure it as long as I live. If the pen is lost, so am I."

"Shut up!" she laughed. Evelyn was not in the mood for his jokes.

Sheffield corrected himself immediately, "Seriously, it's a great gift. Thanks. And if I lose it, you can buy me a new one."

Evelyn didn't want to talk to him anymore. She grabbed her purse and made her way to the door.

Sheffield ran after her and stretched out his arms to block her way. "Baby, can you wait? I need to change."

"No!" Evelyn refused but stopped.

Sheffield giggled and said, "Come on! My belly thinks my throat's been cut. I'm starving!" He ran to his wardrobe and opened it to take out his coat.

Watching him hang up the clothes, Evelyn asked, "So how did the surgery go? You were in there for awhile."

After hanging his coat in the crook of his arm, he closed the wardrobe and walked towards her. He put his arms around her waist and kissed her on the lips. "Thanks for asking, wife of mine. It went well." Hearing that, Evelyn was relieved. But at the same time, the gloom on her face returned. "I'm warning you..."

"What?"

"Quit calling me your wife." She rolled her eyes at him, pulled his hands off her waist, and turned around to leave.

"Yes! Miss Huo! I will never call you 'wife' again, I will call you 'honey' instead!"

grabbed his ear tightly, leaving no time for his response. "You don't listen too

in an exaggerated way.

to be sure. But still, he put up such a fuss that Evelyn wondered if

him, for

expect him to give in so quickly. Seeing him nod obediently, she

Evelyn reminded him, "You need to stay put for a couple minutes

Puzzled, he asked, "Why?"

"I'll get in the car, and then you can come out. I don't want people talking about us." She knew it was unnecessary, but she hadn't been mentally prepared to show up together with him and meet his

"Come on, baby, you're breaking my

wasn't fair to him, so she paused, stood on tiptoe, and

swept over his, but it was enough to fill his heart

this." After saying that, he kissed her on the lips, his own lips

supposed to meet at the supermarket near Sheffield's apartment complex. Then they would pick out the foods they wanted, and Sheffield would cook. Sheffield

When he came back, Sheffield had already opened the door for Evelyn, umbrella in hand. Evelyn looked at Tayson and was about to take the umbrella, but Sheffield said, "It's not raining heavily. This umbrella is big enough for the two

there. We need a second one." She took the umbrella from Tayson

never got you anything!" Then he jogged to keep up with

when Sheffield came up behind her,

her tightly. "I thought we agreed on two. What

he

Wasn't he holding it just now? Broken so soon?' Evelyn turned to look at Tayson. But she could see nothing as Sheffield stood in her

speechless. There was no way his umbrella

they arrived at the entrance of the supermarket, half of Sheffield's body

shoulders and rebuked in a soft

umbrella, Sheffield pecked on her lips. "It's no big deal. It doesn't matter as long as you're dry. It's freezing

the