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?"

anger and fear out of his voice. The rain streamed across

heard him. The tears streaming out of her eyes mingled with

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

her eyes and mouth and entwining around

soaked and heavy, and the cold had seeped deep into her flesh and

where to turn. She needed to get away from Rufus, but she had nowhere to run

see a way forward. And she

her knees. When she lifted her hands she found them covered in dirt and mud, and after standing up she

they were turning, and her body

cold when she ran out of the carpark nor realized how dangerous this weather would be. In desperation she ran to find some

a hero from the rain, but why did the sight of

when he saw the frightened look on Cassandra's

take you to tidy yourself

just cry more tears. Her eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed to lack the strength to lift

her face, and nearly drew back in shock

It's okay,"

seen her look so much like a corpse, and the lifelessness in her eyes sent a chill down Rufus's spine.

to use his body to shelter her

little, and her eyes looked momentarily up at him, and then

second asking her

car, buckled her in and brushed some of the hair out of her face. He

spending nights here at times

was spacious, but tidy and

Cassandra's face, but her body still trembled

out of the hospital, and feared that her

possessed you to run out in the rain like that? What, not even a typhoon could stop you from

the warmth in the gentle way that he handled her.

that she still could not move, he respectfully helped her peel off her ruined clothing, and lowered her into the hot bath.

seemed to calm her; she gradually stopped quivering

had just... 'Oh no...' she thought, 'not

uninjured hand, Rufus trickled some water over her shoulders to

to return to her face, and as the mirrors

she spoke softly, "I

to look at the

so rare that the little woman didn't firmly resist. He would definitely take the chance

love this kind of treatment from him, but

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