True Love Waits

"Hmm?" She was angry, but Sheffield had no clue why.

Evelyn raised her high heel-clad foot and stomped on Sheffield's. He was only wearing a slipper, so the heel dug into his flesh. "Ouch..." In pain, Sheffield let go of her instantly. Evelyn took the chance to jog towards the door and fled the ward, thoroughly embarrassed.

Sheffield, left alone in the ward, sat on the bed. He was no less confused, and now had an injured foot as well.

'What happened to her? Why did she get angry all of a sudden?'

A few minutes later, he calmed down and closed the curtains. Then he turned on his computer.

He opened a surveillance video and fast forwarded through it. As he thought, several minutes of video were missing.

Sheffield ran a hand through his hair as he browsed the network shares. He found where the saboteur had hidden the surveillance videos and restored all of them.

The benefit to getting all the video back? He could see who sabotaged his race car.

However, he didn't recognize the guy, so he ran the man's image through an online background check. Fortunately, there was information in the database, and in less than 5 minutes he had a wealth of data on the guy.

Armed with this info, Sheffield was sure he could track this guy down.

He closed his laptop and texted Evelyn. "You home yet?"

Evelyn didn't want to reply to his message, but it was already past 1 a.m. Afraid that he might be too worried to sleep, she replied, "Yeah."

When he saw her reply, he grinned and tapped out a reply.

"Good. I'll let you go, so you can get some sleep. Just remember to climb in my bed when you're free."

Evelyn was rendered speechless. Why didn't she take her dad up on his offer to teach her martial arts? If she had, she'd be able to teach Sheffield a good lesson when he made her mad. Evelyn hadn't called or texted him since that night.

Strangely, he didn't contact her either, not even a message.

She wondered whether

him "daddy" the other night, so she was too embarrassed to

take her to Sheffield's apartment,

man pulled into his parking space, locked the car,

black windbreaker. A gust caught his clothes, and they billowed dramatically. He looked handsome and

was following him.

nothing suspicious except a black car parked

suspicious, because it was not in the

he'd been spotted, as he started the car, and began

as fast as he could, jumped in front of

hit him. Luckily, the car screeched to a halt just in the nick

the driver's seat, Sheffield grinned from ear

see who was in

door and knocked on the car window. "Evelyn,"

soon. Since there was no need to hide anymore, she rolled down

her, his face lit up. He stuck his head into the car and said

broad smile on his fair face. Evelyn didn't bother to dignify his question with a response. "Tayson,

you a kiss!" It was his fault. He had

again, "Drive!" The car moved

only inched forward, mainly to avoid hurting Sheffield. His head was still fully inside the car. If Tayson zoomed off, he'd have Sheffield's detached head rolling in the back seat. "Evelyn, I was wrong. I was just

not until then that Evelyn remembered

decided to

her clothes and unlocked the car

soon as she did that, Sheffield ripped open the door. He got into the car and got the woman

against

haven't been around. I've been super-busy," he said, after kissing her

was about to kiss her again, Evelyn covered his lips and