Evelyn clutched the hem of her dress firmly. "I have nothing to say to you."
"I do." Sheffield leaned over to Evelyn and whispered in her ear, "You slept with me, and yet, you want to dump me for no good reason. Do you want everyone to know about this or do you want to talk in private?"
Evelyn blushed and cast a cold glance at him.
But the man just grinned back at her.
She turned to Nadia and said, "Wait here."
Then, she walked with him to the corner of the street where there were no street lamps.
Just as she was out of Tayson's and Nadia's sights, she was engulfed by a familiar embrace.
She wanted to push him away, but as she turned towards him, he wrapped his hand around her waist and kissed her on the lips.
When Dollie came around the dark corner, she froze.
She immediately knew that the man was Sheffield. He had come to pick her up, yet here he was, kissing another woman.
Not any woman. He was with Evelyn Huo, the woman who had ruined her modelling career.
Envy and anger rose within her. She clenched on to her bag tightly to restrain her impulse to break them apart.
Sheffield let go of Evelyn after the long kiss. As she gasped for air, he pressed her against the wall. He held her hands behind her back with one hand and raised her chin with the other to make her look straight at him. As they stared into each other's eyes, he asked her with an expressionless face, "So, should l call you Evelina... or Evelyn Huo?" He gently ran his thumb over her lips, stroking the spot where the lipstick had been smudged by his kiss.
Unable to move, Evelyn flared up. "I shouldn't have agreed to talk to you!"
Ignoring her anger, he smiled and called her name softly, "Evelyn."
A faint frown appeared on his forehead. The name he had called so many times was not even her real name. But, on the night they had been together, he had called her Eve. 'But so what?' he thought. That wasn't her real name either. He had never been so frustrated before.
She remained silent.
"The regional CEO of ZL Group. That's quite amazing."
Right then, they heard a loud clicking sound of high heels from behind them. Sheffield didn't turn around to look.
He didn't care who was behind him. Nothing was more important to him at that moment than the person in front of him.
Indifferently, Evelyn watched as Dollie approached them. The woman in the lingerie store that day with Sheffield was actually her friend's sister. 'What a coincidence, ' she thought wryly.
Dollie stopped a meter away from them. She glared at Evelyn with burning, reproachful eyes.
But, she put a restraint on her emotions and said with a smile, "Sheffield."
Without looking at her, he said, "Wait for me, Dollie. I will be with you in a minute."
'Wait for him? While he flirts with this woman?' Dollie didn't know if Sheffield was pissing her off on purpose; she was so angry that her face distorted.
"Fine." She had to compromise and act nice to get him.
Her eyes never left Evelyn's from the beginning to the end of their conversation.
"You work for ZL Group and I work in the First General Hospital, so close to you." Ignoring Dollie, he kissed Evelyn on the lips again.
She couldn't move and unwillingly let him devour her.
Her submission turned him on. He lowered his head and bit on the side of her neck. She groaned, and that was when he let go of her.
Dollie gritted her teeth as she waited silently. Their intimacy was killing her and she was fuming with anger. But she couldn't do anything, since Sheffield had never confirmed his relationship with her. She had to tolerate everything till the time was right.
Stroking Evelyn's fair face, Sheffield asked casually, "Evelyn Huo, did you expose yourself to the media tonight for me? Do you really think that I cannot live without you? Or did you think that I will not pursue you after knowing that you are a female CEO?"
"I didn't do it for you. I don't care what you think," Evelyn denied.
With a gentle smile, he exhaled near her ear and planted a soft kiss on her neck, leaving a lipstick mark since his lips had been stained from their previous kiss. "Well, Evelyn… Don't get the wrong idea. You will never be able to forget me."
Evelyn looked at his lips which were clean by now, and she quickly wiped the lipstick on her neck.
Sheffield licked his lips with an evil grin and stepped back from her. "Maybe you're telling the truth."
He took one more step back and waved at the woman behind him. Dollie walked over to him.
Sheffield wrapped his arm around her shoulder and looked at Evelyn. There was not the slightest change in her eyes, whatsoever. He said with a bright smile, "Don't worry, I'm just kidding. Rest assured, Evelyn Huo. I will not pester you anymore."
With that, he turned around and started walking away. He waved at her and said with a sigh, "My leg has finally recovered. I don't want it to be broken again just for paying off my romantic debts."
Sheffield directed Dollie to a car without a logo. He opened the passenger seat door for her like a gentleman and let her in.
After closing the door for her, he went around to the driver's seat. He waved to the woman who was still standing in the dark corner before getting into the driver's seat. The engine started with a roar and the car disappeared into the traffic.
Evelyn felt a prick in her heart; a pain that she couldn't ignore.
Only she knew how much it hurt to drown that emotion.
As she watched the car disappear in the distance, Evelyn was sure that she wasn't mistaken.
The car was the latest model that had been launched by ZL Group last year. It was worth at least eight million, and the top-end model was worth at least ten million.
The one Sheffield drove was a high-end model, but he had slightly refitted it.
Many people wouldn't know about this, but Evelyn recognized it because it had been designed by Matthew himself.
Only three such cars were produced worldwide. One was owned by Matthew, another one was in Switzerland and the last one... She had never asked about it. Turned out that Sheffield owned the final piece.
She wondered if it was really his.
When she got back to her car, she saw Nadia talking to Tayson anxiously. The bodyguard was looking elsewhere with a poker face without saying a word.
When he saw Evelyn, he reminded Nadia, "She is here."
She turned around and saw Evelyn walking towards them with her head down. She couldn't see the expression on her face in the dark.
'Thank God, she is back.' Taking a deep breath, Nadia opened the back door for her and noticed her messed-up lipstick.
'What happened back there?
Her lipstick is smudged. Does that mean…' Nadia looked towards the dark corner. 'Miss Huo must have been in a relationship with that man, ' she thought.
Evelyn sat in the back and gazed out of the window at the dark night. The words Sheffield had told her replayed in her mind repeatedly.
'I will not pester you anymore.'
At the same time, Sheffield stepped on the gas and continued going faster. The car was now dangerously moving at 150 km per hour. In the passenger seat, Dollie held on to her seat belt with one hand and gripped the handrail above her head with the other. In a frightened voice, she begged, "Sheffield… slow down."