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?"

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

that she had heard him. The tears streaming out of

into the rain at the spur of the moment. She was almost knocked

her eyes and mouth and entwining around her

and the cold had seeped deep into her flesh and bones.

She needed to get away from Rufus, but she

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

lifted her hands she found them covered in dirt and

were turning, and her body was trembling so much that she

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

rain, but why did the sight of him not fill her with

the

to tidy yourself up,"

eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed

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

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

seen her look so much like a corpse, and the lifelessness in her eyes sent a

to him, he tried to use his body to shelter

felt her stir a little, and her eyes looked momentarily

realized that he couldn't waste another second asking her how she was

against his chest. He brought her carefully to the passenger seat of his car, buckled her in and brushed some of the hair out of her face. He wished he had a blanket to

had kept this place a secret from his family, spending nights here at times instead

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

face, but

the hospital, and feared that her time

even a typhoon could stop you from acting out?" Rufus scolded her, but with no real anger behind his words.

warmth in the gentle way that

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

seemed to calm her; she gradually stopped quivering and began

had just... 'Oh no...'

over her

her face, and as the mirrors steamed up in the

last, she spoke softly, "I can do

her head back to look at the man behind her.

didn't firmly resist. He would definitely take the chance to serve the beauty.

would love this kind of treatment from

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