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?"

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

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

leapt into the rain at the spur of the moment. She was

hair clung to her face, getting in her eyes

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

didn't know where to turn. She needed to get away from Rufus,

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

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

turning, and her body was trembling

of the carpark nor realized how dangerous this weather would be. In

like a hero from the rain, but why did the sight of him not

went furious when he saw the frightened look

to tidy yourself

Rufus said could provoke anything more than just cry more tears. Her eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed to lack the strength to lift her

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

I'm with you. Don't worry. It's okay,"

and the lifelessness in her eyes sent a

he tried to use his body to shelter her from the

her eyes looked momentarily up

he couldn't waste another second asking

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

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

simply but stylishly decorated, expensive but not luxurious. It was spacious, but tidy and

dried on Cassandra's face, but her body still

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

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

in the gentle way

could not move, he respectfully helped her peel off

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

'Oh

uninjured hand, Rufus trickled some water over her shoulders

color started to return to her face, and as the mirrors steamed up in the

spoke softly, "I can do it

look at the man behind her. Rufus just

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

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

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