True Love Waits

Evelyn turned to look at the source of the voice. It was none other than Joshua, and the man standing right beside him was Sheffield, hands in his pockets. Peterson waved at them and said, "Sheffield, Joshua! Get over here. I'd like you to meet Miss Huo."

The two young men just stood there. "You sure that he doesn't know about you and Evelyn?" Joshua asked his buddy in a low voice.

"Yeah, he knows," replied Sheffield, staring at Evelyn.

'He knows everything about me. He's just pretending not to. I've been around Evelyn a lot. There's no way he couldn't know,' he thought to himself.

"Okay. So we just roll with it!" 'That's what I figured!' Joshua thought. 'There were a lot of people on Uncle Peterson's payroll. And some of them were sent to spy on Sheffield. And it's not like Evelyn and Sheffield were trying to hide their relationship. Yeah, Uncle Peterson knows all about it.'

Sheffield tilted his head. "Give me your glass!"

"What?" Joshua was about to head over to greet Peterson when he heard Sheffield's sudden request. He was taken aback.

"Your glass of red wine. Give it to me," he repeated.

Joshua took a glance at the contents of his glass. He'd already drunk some of it. "No way, dude. Flag down a waiter. What? You haven't become a complete lush on me, have you?"

Not in the mood to trade quips with his friend, Sheffield stopped a passing waiter and grabbed a glass of red wine from the tray. Then he started walking toward Peterson and Evelyn.

Joshua positioned himself in front of Peterson. This way, Sheffield had no choice but to confront Evelyn. Joshua wanted to see how the two were going to react.

Sheffield didn't let Joshua down. He took advantage of the situation and was near Evelyn. When he saw this, Joshua thought his friend was still not close enough to Evelyn, so he crowded Sheffield. Sheffield, his space invaded, instinctively moved closer to the love of his life.

The two buddies exchanged knowing looks. They gave each other a thumbs-up in their hearts.

a pink cheongsam came over, taking his

was in her thirties and well-dressed. She smiled brightly when she saw Sheffield. "Oh, Sheffield, your friend's here too! Nice to see you again,

ignored her completely. He did not even look at her, let alone say

and defuse the situation, Joshua nodded at the woman and said,

married a woman much younger than him. 'She must be Sheffield's step-mother, ' Evelyn

man her own age call her "Auntie." But she composed herself and looked at Evelyn. "Who's she?" she asked

met Evelyn. Evelyn didn't go to many parties, or even out much. Like the others, Lea Chi had heard Evelyn's name but had

of ZL Group. Miss Huo, this is my wife, Lea Chi, and my son, Sheffield Tang. I'm handing him the reins to Theo Group. Here's to a great relationship between

was watching her. Then she turned to look at Sheffield. Before she could do anything, he reached out his hand with a mysterious smile on his lips. "I've heard the regional CEO of ZL Group is a beautiful and talented lady. They're not wrong. I've heard a lot about you, Miss Huo.

a

put her hand in his and shook it. "You

their hands touched, their

her hand tightly and looked into her eyes. "Mr.

turned red as she noticed they were attracting the attention of the other patrons. "You can let go now," she

of warning in her eyes, he smiled and let

confused when she looked at them. She glanced at Peterson, hoping

Miss Huo?" Peterson asked

know each other now, right, Miss Huo?" Sheffield

he was lying, Evelyn decided to play along. "Yeah." It had been two years since they had separated. And now, she couldn't figure

on Joshua's leg. As he tried to regain his balance, he came close to

it, the wine splashed on Evelyn's evening gown, staining it

how Sheffield had done the

to darken and glisten when liquid hit it. So