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?"

his voice. The rain streamed across his face, and the wind ripped

gave no indication that she had heard him. The tears streaming out of her eyes mingled with the rain

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

clung to her face, getting in her eyes and mouth and entwining around her throat.

and heavy, and the cold had seeped

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

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

hands she found them covered in dirt and mud, and

and her body was trembling

how dangerous this weather would

from the rain, but why did the sight of

went furious when he saw the frightened look

crying. Let me take you to tidy

Her eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed to

to wipe the water from her face, and nearly drew back in shock when

okay," the man tried to reassure

corpse, and the

tried to use his body to shelter her from

her stir a little, and her eyes looked momentarily up at him, and then away.

waste another second asking her how she

and brushed some of the hair out of her face. He wished he had a blanket to give her. He drove to his house, as fast as

secret from his family, spending nights

but stylishly decorated, expensive but not luxurious. It was spacious, but tidy and well-maintained. Cassandra wondered why Rufus would have

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 rain would make her

typhoon could stop you from acting out?" Rufus scolded her, but with no real anger behind

warmth in the gentle way

helped her peel off her ruined

her; she gradually stopped quivering

just... 'Oh no...' she thought,

over her

and as the mirrors steamed up in

softly,

didn't dare turn her head back to look at the man behind her. Rufus

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

would love this kind of treatment from him, but he would only do

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