True Love Waits

Sheffield was indeed in dire need of money because of his research and development. Carlos knew this.

Even though he was being laughed at, Sheffield kept his temper. "It is true that I can't afford to buy this chair now, but I'm looking forward to the day I will be rich enough to buy the manufacturer of this chair," he said calmly.

"I'm looking forward to it too," Carlos snorted.

Silence befell the office again. Leaning against the windowsill, Evelyn watched Sheffield as he typed something on her laptop really fast.

Carlos frowned when he saw how fast Sheffield was. 'Could he be...?'

Three more minutes passed and Carlos stood up from the couch. "I don't have time to waste on you. If you can't unlock the door within the next two minutes, I'll open it myself. The security will escort you out of the building and our lives." 'Good riddance, ' Carlos thought to himself.

Sheffield didn't reply. His eyes were fixed on the codes that were continuously changing on the screen.

Carlos became even more curious as to what he was doing, so he paced towards the desk.

But before he could catch a glimpse of the screen, Sheffield pressed the Enter key and said, "Done!"

He memorized the six digits and closed the pop-up window. "Mr. Huo, don't blink," he said with a naughty grin.

Carlos remained expressionless and watched him walk to the password lock on the door. Sheffield mumbled as he tapped in the numbers, "5-8-9-7-3-2."

Beep! The high-tech smart lock was now deactivated.

All three people in the room had different looks on their faces. Sheffield had a devil-may-care smile; Evelyn was surprised and also excited. Carlos was on the verge of erupting as he fisted his palms. When the two men made eye contact, the smug look in Sheffield's eyes seemed to be saying, "Gotcha, Mr. Huo! I'm better than you thought I was, aren't I?"

Evelyn trotted over to Carlos and grabbed his sleeve nervously. "Dad, you cannot go back on your words now."

Carlos was already fuming with rage. And his daughter had been siding with Sheffield all this while, which made him even angrier.

"So, Mr. Huo, may I have the honor of hanging out with your daughter today? Tomorrow is her

about your gift. Besides, what can you afford to buy her?" Even Carlos didn't understand what had gotten over him. He had now become a person who would take out his anger on someone with snappy comebacks. It was very unlike

smiled. "I'll buy her a lollipop. I'm sure she

seem to be in a horrible mood. A lollipop would probably

words. "You think my daughter is only

no way I would buy her a cheap one. I take good care of her." As he

she was standing next to Carlos, Sheffield was edging dangerously close to him as

tongue," Carlos sneered.

the compliment." When Sheffield could almost touch Evelyn's hand, Carlos suddenly pulled her towards his back.

stopped immediately and stood very still. He was ready to be punched in

then, I'll allow

problem! Ask me ten questions! As long

I'll ask a

fool me?" Sheffield felt like he had been neatly

get that software?" The independent security system on Evelyn's laptop was powerful. Although it was different from the security system of ZL Group's computers, it had the same level of defense

from one of my friends," he said, and then thought, 'Got it BACK from one

anything about this friend of his, Carlos went ahead with

surprise. "Yes, of course! I know all about it. I've read many books on Chinese medicine. Star anise is the seedpod from the fruit

programming language do you know?" Carlos continued to

a lie; he just chose

you register your license plate number

eyes with Evelyn, asking

her throat and said softly,

all the security guards to keep an eye out for Sheffield

let him

why Carlos was asking Sheffield all these questions about security, but she knew she

each other. Carlos' eyes were filled with doubts, and he tried to find the answers within the smiling eyes