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.

everyone, a young woman in a pink cheongsam came over, taking his arm intimately. "There

and well-dressed. She smiled brightly when she saw

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

defuse the situation, Joshua nodded

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

froze for a second when Lea Chi heard a man her own age call her "Auntie." But she composed herself and looked at Evelyn. "Who's she?" she asked

many parties, or even out much. Like the others, Lea Chi had heard Evelyn's name but had never

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 ZL Group and Theo Group!" He raised

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

said in a light, half-serious

her hand in his and shook

hands touched, their hearts

looked into her eyes. "Mr. Tang? You're too formal. It's just Sheffield. If you say Mr. Tang,

attracting the attention of the other patrons. "You can let go now," she said in a hushed

he smiled and let go of her hand as

confused when she looked at them. She glanced at Peterson, hoping to find some answers, but he didn't seem to care at

know Miss Huo?" Peterson asked Sheffield,

know each other now, right, Miss Huo?"

to play along. "Yeah." It had been two years since they had separated. And now, she couldn't figure out

drain them. But Sheffield deliberately tripped on Joshua's leg. As he tried to regain his balance, he came close to spilling his wine

try and stop it, the wine splashed

Sheffield

same color, fabric tended to darken and glisten