A Graduation Gift

Chapter 62 The Storm

A heavy silence permeated the elevator. Cassandra glanced at the redness spreading over Rufus' hand, and felt her heart squeeze in pain.

She tried to keep the tears in her eyes from running down her face.

"Rufus… You… You asshole!"

The words burst from her. She struggled to get her emotions under control, barely noticing that her fingernails were dug into her palms. Her voice trembled with emotion.

Her reaction made Rufus's face soften.

He looked away from her, wanting to conceal the swirl of emotions in his nebulous eyes.

Each droplet of tears that escaped from her eyes splashed straight onto his heart.

His heart became heavier and heavier.

As soon as the lift doors opened, Cassandra rushed out. After a second Rufus realized that she was heading not toward the carpark, but towards the exit.

While he stood there stunned, Cassandra disappeared into the heavy rain.

He dashed to the main gate, but Cassandra was nowhere to be seen.

The swirling sky above him, was dark as ink. A traffic light stood out in the storm, a beacon in the night.

He stood for a second, and then spun back toward the carpark. Climbed into his car, he sped out of the building right away.

The car seared through the thundering weather; the wipers screeching hopelessly against the downpour. He peered through the rain, barely able to see the road. He had no idea how he would find Cassandra.

But Rufus was determined. Slowly, he circled around the block, driving back and forth for some time before finally spotting a bedraggled woman at the corner of the street.

She was huddled under a ledge outside of a darkened shop. The ledge barely kept the rain from her, with water lashing at her on either side.

As he parked the car and leapt out of the door, he saw her sitting on haunches and staring blankly at the rain.

He ripped his coat off and covered her with it.

He crouched down and put his arms around her, almost flinching as he felt how cold and drenched she was.

"What were you thinking? Do you know how severe this typhoon is?"

voice. The rain streamed across his face, and the wind ripped the words from out of his

she had heard him. The tears streaming out of her eyes mingled

the moment. She was almost knocked flat by the storm, but her need to escape pushed

in her eyes and

were soaked and heavy, and the cold had seeped deep into

to get away from Rufus, but she had nowhere

forward. And she

she tripped and fell to her knees. When she lifted her hands she found them covered in

together, unaware of how blue they were turning, and her body was trembling so

carpark nor realized how dangerous this weather would be. In desperation she ran to find

hero from the rain, but why

the frightened look on Cassandra's face.

me take you to tidy yourself

Her eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed

worried. He reached out a hand to wipe the water from her face, and nearly drew back in shock when

okay," the man

like a corpse, and the lifelessness

tried to use

he felt her stir a little, and her eyes looked momentarily up at him, and then

another second asking her how she was feeling.

to the passenger seat of his car, buckled her in and brushed some of the hair out of her face.

his family, spending nights here at times instead of at the

decorated, expensive but not luxurious. It was spacious, but tidy and well-maintained. Cassandra wondered why Rufus would have such a secret space to

had dried on Cassandra's face, but her body

she had just recently come out of the hospital, and feared that her time in the

the rain like that? What, not even a typhoon could stop

warmth in the gentle way that he handled her.

her peel off her ruined clothing,

heat of the water seemed to calm her; she gradually

that…he had just... 'Oh no...' she

uninjured hand, Rufus trickled some water over her shoulders to warm her body

to return to her face, and as the mirrors

spoke softly, "I can

look at the man behind her. Rufus just ignored her small request.

that the little woman didn't firmly resist. He would definitely take the chance to serve the

kind of treatment from him, but he would

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