Take My Breath Away

Joshua grinned, "Dude, you know me too well. But get this: Mr. Huo is very strict when it comes to Terilynn. I barely see her. But this is my chance. Mr. Huo's off on a business trip, so I can spend some quality time with my girlfriend. Sure, Terilynn and I can take care of Gwyn. But what if I can't control myself around her and try something? It's not good if Gwyn gets exposed to that, right?"

Sheffield didn't want to waste any more time on Joshua. "Cut the crap. I'll keep Gwyn, then. Go on your date. She can sleep at my place tonight. I can pretend she's my daughter from now on."

Gwyn was really thirsty. She took a big gulp of the juice before stopping to take a breath.

"We'll come and get her when you get tired. All right, I'll let you get back to taking care of Gwyn, Uncle Sheffield!" Joshua joked.

Sheffield snorted and hung up the phone.

After drinking some juice, Gwyn held the cup and looked up at Sheffield.

Sheffield put his phone in his pocket. He took the juice from Gwyn with one hand and held her in his other arm. "Let's go, Gwyn. Ignore them. I'll take you to buy some toys. How about a pair of beautiful princess shoes too?"

Two hours later, Terilynn was getting worried. She hadn't heard one word from Sheffield. "Let's go find them. Gwyn is so cute, what if Sheffield wants to keep her?" she told Joshua. Actually, she was simply afraid Sheffield would find out Gwyn was his biological daughter.

This secret was huge. He had to be told properly, not find out by accident.

"No way. Tell you what: if he takes Gwyn away from you, as his best friend, I'm willing to give myself to you in trade," Joshua declared.

Terilynn rolled her eyes at him with a smile and pushed him. "Hurry up. Looking after a toddler is no mean feat. Sheffield's been at it a long time. He must be tired. Let's go find them."

"Okay!"

The two of them found Sheffield and Gwyn at the resting area of the children's clothing floor. Gwyn slept soundly in Sheffield's arms, covered by Sheffield's suit jacket. Tons of shopping bags surrounded Sheffield's feet.

"Oh my God! You bought all this? What did you get?" Joshua's eyes widened when he saw all those bags. There were at least ten shopping b

ght all this, okay?"

"Okay. Why not?"

Joshua didn't understand. Terilynn avoided making eye contact with him. She had to come up with another lie. "Because they don't want her around strangers. I mentioned you to her parents once, so you're not a stranger."

To keep Gwyn's identity a secret, Terilynn felt she had told more lies in this short time than she had in her entire life.

"Makes sense," Joshua agreed, happy he wasn't a stranger to Gwyn.

But he felt Terilynn was being a little weird, and yet he couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong.

Evelyn staked out Sheffield's apartment for two days before she figured out he had been sleeping in his office.

She booked two movie tickets online for that night and sent the link to Sheffield and said, "Let's have dinner and catch a movie tonight."

After a long pause, he replied, "I already have a dinner appointment."

"Then let's go to the movie after that. I can switch out the tickets." The movie started at 8 p.m.

"No, don't change it. I have something to deal with tonight. I can't make it."

Reading the message, Evelyn was in a daze. After a long while, she replied, "I can wait for you at the theater."

"Not necessary."

Evelyn insisted, "It is."

This time, he didn't reply.

Evelyn got to the theater by 10 p.m. Since it was so late, there was almost no one there. Only a few young people, who were there to watch a horror movie, were hanging out, waiting for their movie to start.