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?"

streamed across his face,

indication that she had heard him. The tears streaming out of her eyes mingled with the rain

leapt into the rain at the spur of the moment. She was almost knocked flat by the storm, but

face, getting in her eyes

and heavy, and the cold had

needed to get away from Rufus, but she had nowhere

a way forward. And she couldn't go back either. Cassandra kept

found them

together, unaware of how blue they were turning, and her

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

rain, but why

went furious when he saw the frightened look on

take you to tidy yourself up," the man ordered firmly.

could provoke anything more than just cry more tears. Her eyes looked empty and

wipe the water from her face, and nearly

I'm with you. Don't worry. It's okay," the man tried to

a corpse, and the lifelessness in her eyes

him, he tried to use

and her eyes looked momentarily up

that he couldn't waste another second asking her how

buckled her in and brushed some of the hair out of her face. He wished he

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

luxurious. It was spacious, but tidy and well-maintained. Cassandra wondered why Rufus would

on Cassandra's face, but

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

you to run out in the rain like that? What, not even a typhoon could stop you from acting out?" Rufus scolded

feel the warmth in the gentle way that he

she still could not move, he respectfully helped her peel off her ruined

heat of the water seemed to calm her; she gradually stopped quivering and began to come

'Oh

water over her shoulders to warm her

and as the mirrors steamed up in the room,

softly, "I can

her head back to look at the man behind

firmly resist. He would definitely take the chance to serve

all there were many women who would love this kind of treatment from him, but he would only do

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