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, and the wind ripped the words from out of

out of her eyes

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

getting in her eyes and mouth and

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

away from Rufus, but she had nowhere to

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

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

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

realized how dangerous this weather would be. In desperation she ran to

the rain, but why did the sight

saw the frightened

me take you to tidy yourself up," the

eyes looked empty and unfocused, and she seemed to lack the strength to lift

worried. He reached out a hand to wipe the water from her face, and nearly drew back in

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

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

to use his body to shelter her from the rain.

eyes looked momentarily up at him, and then away.

couldn't waste another second asking her how

brushed some of the hair out of her face.

his family, spending nights here at

stylishly decorated, expensive but not luxurious. It was spacious, but tidy and well-maintained.

but

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

the rain like that? What, not even a typhoon could stop you from

feel the warmth in the gentle way that he handled her.

helped her peel off her ruined clothing, and lowered her

her; she gradually stopped quivering and began to

that…he had just... 'Oh no...'

his uninjured hand, Rufus trickled some water over her shoulders

to return to her face, and as the mirrors steamed up in the room, a blush rose to

softly, "I

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

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

there were many women who would love this kind of treatment from

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