True Love Waits

Reluctantly, Carlos told Evelyn, "The bidding was a blessing in disguise, though your computer was hacked last time. The game hasn't been released on the market yet, but it's caught some buzz. The Theo Group likes it very much. Plus, it's a big game developed by the game company under our ZL Group. It has a strong background. If people are smart, then they're definitely going to cooperate with us." 'Dad's just basically saying that we won the bidding, ' Evelyn thought to herself. After a short pause, she offered, "How about I handle everything that has to do with the game afterwards?" "Matthew will take the responsibility. I don't want you to get too tired."

"I'm not. Matthew should focus on school."

However, Carlos didn't agree. He stood up and began, "This is going to be complicated, you know. It's a long-term cooperation between two companies. You can deal with the regular stuff. Hey, aren't you having your birthday party tomorrow? Why don't you just prepare for that?"

"All right." Evelyn didn't push him. She knew her father well. If he didn't want her to take over, she would be unable to change his mind.

After Carlos left, Evelyn heaved a sigh of relief.

She placed an internal call. It was for Nadia.

"Miss Huo." Nadia soon came over.

Evelyn took the vase that held the Bulgarian roses that Sheffield had given her. The roses looked lovely as ever. In order to preserve the roses longer, she told Nadia, "Could you make them into dry flowers before sending them over to my apartment?"

"Yes, Miss Huo!" As Nadia took the vase, she made sure she was careful enough to not break it. She knew how important the flowers were to Evelyn.

Evelyn sat back in her chair and took out her phone. She was silent for a long time. Then she sent a text message to Sheffield, saying, "The man in my apartment that day was Napier Tao. I told you before that one of my best friends died young. She was his girlfriend." Evelyn decided to tell Sheffield through text as opposed to telling him face to face which would just embarrass her.

She had been thinking about it for several days. She had planned to tell Sheffield everything last night, but she was so tired last night that she immediately fell asleep. Maybe Sheffield was busy since he didn't reply to her message right away.

expect that he'd treat me that way. He'd never behaved like that before..." That was what Sheffield had seen. Napier was trying to get her to sleep with him and in response, she hurt him since he wouldn't take no for an

her. Evelyn then called Tayson to come in. As soon as Tayson arrived, he seemed confused. He called for an ambulance upon seeing all the blood

because of me, she..." She hesitated for a while before continuing to write

to her apartment, she had let him in as she happened to be working from home that day,

in many days. As he paced in her apartment, he left a smell. His shoes were dirty and his hands grimy. Trying to suppress the feeling of nausea, Evelyn poured a glass of water and handed it to him.

he said, "Wow, this place looks amazing. I live in a small hut in the graveyard while you live so comfortably. I'm guessing you have fun around here, huh? When you get bored, you probably

calm though she was being spoken to like this. In a flat tone, she said, "I can buy you

need it!" Napier

Evelyn didn't respond.

head to toe. "Melody's been gone for more than three

"Yeah," Evelyn replied simply.

anyone in

with a woman." Evelyn sat on the couch,

up straight, asking, "Are you telling me that you'll

She figured she could cut him off when he finally got

and walked past the coffee table to stand beside Evelyn. Gazing at her, he

same stony expression, Evelyn said, "Mr. Tao, you need to know why I'm helping you now. If

to lift her chin. Evelyn was forced to look at him. "Let

aloof. Come on. Stop pretending! Don't think that I'm some oblivious prick who doesn't know how people like you behave in private. I know for a fact that you rich people like playing around. You're almost 30, so it's normal for you to take a liking to younger guys. So, you don't

up, and pulled