True Love Waits

Evelyn straightened her clothes and warned Calvert in a cold voice, "Don't make me hate you more!"

Then she turned, opened the door and left the room.

Evelyn walked out of the Alioth Building in high heels. As soon as she hit the parking lot and was about to call Sheffield, she got a call from Nadia. "Miss Huo, bad news! Mr. Zhang had a heart attack. We're waiting for an ambulance now. The launch is a mess."

A heart attack? Resting her forehead in her hand, Evelyn said resignedly, "Get someone else. He must have alternates. We could also change the launch date. Can you handle it?"

"I don't think that'll fly. The product designer's here, but only you and Mr. Zhang know everything about it. There are CEOs tuned in to watch this online. They saved the date for that reason. If we cancel it..." After three seconds of silence, Evelyn said decisively, "I'll be right there!"

To Evelyn, the launch of the new product was more important than jaunting off to France.

After she ended the call, she took a look at the airline ticket again. Takeoff was in 1.5 hours.

If you want to catch an international flight, you need to be there at least two hours early. Maybe even three. The plane was going to take off, and she wasn't at the airport yet. All she could think about was Sheffield.

She closed her eyes and leaned back in the seat of her car, pondering how to solve this problem.

It would take at least 20 minutes to drive from here to the venue holding the launch event, and making sure it would all go smoothly could take hours. The event itself was supposed to last three hours, with an open bar. If she could take ten minutes to make sure everything was in place to her satisfaction, she could leave it in the capable hands of her assistants afterwards. If she kept it down to 10 minutes and rushed to the airport after that, she should be able to barely catch the flight before it took off. She opened her eyes and told Tayson, "Take me to the venue where the launch event is taking place. And step on it!"

"Yes, Miss Huo!" Tayson answered and started the car in a hurry.

Tormented by those thoughts, she took out her phone and sent a message to Sheffield. "Where are you?"

At that moment, Sheffield had arrived at the airport and was going through the security check. His phone had been put in the tray, and was on a conveyor belt that would take it through the security scanner. When he saw Evelyn's message, he was already at the boarding gate.

"I'm at the airport," he replied.

Evelyn's heart ached. She held her phone tightly, not knowing what to say.

I got held up. A last-minute glitch in the launch event. I'm on my way, now. I'll probably

times. When he was about to reply, "I'll wait for you,"

woman against a door in a private booth. And from the vantage of the security camera, it

tell you she didn't want to go to Paris. That's why she was at the launch party, and not at the airport. Sorry

from a number not in his contact list. But he knew who

catching with the other hand. He needed to think about

to Calvert. Instead, he sent

wouldn't believe

better when she saw his message.

things she needed to talk about, making sure that she could recite the speech fluently

ten minutes later, Sheffield received a call from Joshua. "Hey, Bro. You guys boarding now? Have fun there.

isn't here yet," Sheffield interrupted

Joshua double-checked, taking another look at his watch. No, he was right. So why wasn't she there? Then he checked the time on

change of plans. She got held up." Sheffield's tone betrayed no

"What happened? Where's Evelyn?"

know!" After that initial text, he got nothing more from her. So he really had no idea where she

ten minutes ago,

Gate 293 for boarding. Sheffield Tang and Evelyn

this over

he reminded Sheffield in a low voice, "Time to board, man. You'll miss

"So what? It's not time to take off yet. If she gets here, we can board

Sheffield better than anyone else. He may project the image of an uncaring playboy, the love-em and leave-em type who went

softie, and when he loved someone, it was an all-consuming passion, and he

until the first plane had already started

some last-minute business as a CEO. You could fly to Paris