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.

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

as Tayson

several messages to Sheffield one after another. They were quite long. "His girlfriend had advanced gastric cancer, but because of me, she..." She hesitated for a while before continuing to write the

in as she happened to be working from home that day, and she didn't think much of Napier suddenly

paced in her apartment, he left a smell. His shoes were dirty and his

I'm guessing you have fun

spoken to like this. In a flat tone, she said, "I can

need it!"

Evelyn didn't respond.

the couch, he eyed her from head to toe. "Melody's been gone for more than

"Yeah," Evelyn replied simply.

been with anyone

up with a woman."

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

him off when he finally got

rose and walked past the coffee table to stand beside Evelyn.

stony expression, Evelyn said, "Mr. Tao, you need to know why I'm helping you now. If it weren't for Melody,

reached out his hand to lift her chin. Evelyn was forced to look

been always so 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 have to pretend in front of me. You have such

up,