True Love Waits

Hearing Mrs. Mo's words, Debbie looked Sheffield up and down; the young doctor was focused on examining his patient. She asked Mrs. Mo, "Really? He looks so young. Yet, he has already performed such a difficult surgery? Honestly, he looks like a university graduate. How old is he? Twenty-one, twenty-two years old?"

"I haven't asked him that." The Mo family members had never asked Sheffield about his age. The topic had never come up during their conversations.

"Dr. Tang is twenty-six," the doctor standing next to them cut in to tell Debbie. He had been waiting for a chance to talk to the big star.

"Twenty-six?" Debbie threw a glance at Sheffield's face. He looked much younger than his age. She then commended, "Well, twenty-six is also a very young age for such accomplishments. And he's also making ward rounds with other doctors. Is he the director of your department?"

A female doctor replied this time, her eyes filled with admiration, "Dr. Tang is the deputy director of the neurology department. He's also doing a research and development project right now. Quite amazing, isn't he?"

Debbie nodded repeatedly. She was glad to have met such a handsome and hard-working young man. Unable to hold back her curiosity, she blurted out, "Does he have a girlfriend?" Sheffield and Terilynn were about the same age. If he didn't have a girlfriend, she wanted to try and pair them up.

Evelyn was still talking over the phone. Her voice trailed off as her attention was drawn to her mother's question. 'What is Mom trying to do here?'

Sheffield was done with the patient. He turned to Debbie and said with a broad smile, "Mrs. Huo-"

Before he could say anything further, the doctor, who had cut in to talk to Debbie earlier, interrupted him. "He is the future son-in-law of the president of our hospital. We envy him for his good fortune." Sheffield cursed the talkative doctor a million times in his mind. He had wanted to tell her that he didn't have a girlfriend.

Disappointment was written all over Debbie's face. "Oh, you already have a girlfriend. I see. Well, that's only obvious. You're such an outstanding young man after all." Introducing Terilynn to him seemed impossible now.

Sheffield was overwhelmed by an urge to strangle his fellow doctor. As he read the ECG monitor of the patient, he explained, "No, Mrs. Huo. Please ignore my colleague. I don't have a girlfriend yet. I'm only friends with the president's daughter. There's nothing romantic between us." If he didn't explain himself now, it would be less likely for him to get together with Evelyn.

was done with her phone call, Evelyn turned to look at Sheffield, who was

ward admired Evelyn's beauty. "Wow! Mrs. Huo, your

Huo family is so good-looking, including you,

about Evelyn from everyone, Debbie, as the doting mother she was, never got bored of it. She smiled from ear to ear. "Thank you. You are all lovely too." Sheffield turned to look at

didn't expect Sheffield to be bold enough to say that to Debbie in front of so many people. Afraid of being discovered by her mother,

turned to the patient's family and said, "He is recovering quite well after the surgery. I'll prescribe two boxes of medicine to lower

Huo, we're moving to the next ward. It was nice meeting you." He

too!" Debbie exclaimed. Watching his receding figure,

nurse asked Sheffield eagerly, "Dr. Tang, do you

you not dating Miss Xiang?" another nurse asked curiously. She wondered if she would have a

casually, "Well...Evelyn Huo is such a pretty girl after all. It's only natural for men like me to want to court

just shrugged off the matter, and the

car, she

at such a young age. What do you say we introduce him to Terilynn?" Debbie asked. 'What?!' Evelyn was snapped back to reality. She answered hastily, "No! He's not

men like Tayson. But, this one is

sighed. "Ah! Well, it looks like we will have no

After a short pause, she asked tentatively, "Do you really like him that much? You want him

point of talking about it now? You have Joshua, and he is not your