True Love Waits

'She is going to run away from me again? No way!' Carlos let go of Evelyn and pulled Debbie into his arms. "Hey, don't ever say that again! It's not funny at all. Aren't you ashamed of saying ridiculous things like that in front of your daughter?"

"Why would I feel ashamed? Eve will not laugh at me." Debbie pushed him away, pouting her lips and acting all mad.

Evelyn covered her eyes with the palm of her hand, stifling the urge to laugh and shook her head at the older couple arguing like children.

Suddenly, a brisk voice graced them from the stairway. "Dad, Mom, please spare us from your lover's quarrel. Eve and I are still single, so please consider our feelings and stop making us feel envious, okay?" Terilynn had just returned from outside, blasting Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" through her headphones.

Carlos' face darkened at the sight of his younger daughter. "Why are you so late? Did you go out to dinner with Joshua again?"

ceiling to avert her father's eyes. "How did you know that? You are so mean to Joshua that he's

could he forgive Joshua for turning down his offer to get engaged to Evelyn? "Joshua is not man enough to show his face to me again! After what he did, it would do him good to stay out of my sight!"

with exasperation, Terilynn said, "My dear father, can't you just be the better man and

a reasonable person, but I am not very forgiving. If he had agreed to get engaged to Evelyn, she wouldn't have gotten engaged to Calvert. And now Gwyn wouldn't have to live

actions? If you hadn't intervened in their business and forced Evelyn to

Debbie had

the Tang family mansion and I would have no choice but to miss her every day. Besides, I don't want Gwyn to call a woman in her early thirties 'Grandma." Carlos would rather keep his granddaughter away from a social climber like Lea. Debbie and her daughters were

last, Terilynn burst into laughter. "Dad! Sometimes you are so nice, but sometimes you also make me