A Graduation Gift

At this point, she could no longer pretend she wasn't bothered by Rufus's indifference. The anger that had accumulated over the past few weeks broke out. She felt like she was better than Cassandra in every possible way and made a more suitable match for Rufus. Yet, Rufus kept ignoring her!

"Amanda, consider this a warning. Do not speak badly about Cassandra in front of me. This is the last time I'm telling you this."

At last, the remaining bits of patience for the daughter of his respected mentor got drained. His face was grim. Darkness arose from his eagle-like eyes, piercing through her.

Rufus firmly believed he knew Cassandra better than anyone else. Her marriage with Lionel was widely misunderstood. The clients she had were also not due to his reference. Whatever she had reaped was the result of her own efforts. How could Amanda disregard all her hard work without knowing anything about her?

"I will speak! Cassandra is nothing but a slut abandoned by her husband. Only you would treasure such a filthy woman!"

Amanda lost all her manners in front of someone like Rufus whom she knew from head to toe. She acted like no less than a kid, shouting out those careless words.

Rufus's jaw clenched; his eyes widened as a dark look came on his face.

"Enough! Don't ever show me your face again!" Rufus roared.

eyes seemed to be made of cold metal. Amanda

shoved her away from the door. She couldn't even balance herself and almost fell to the ground but Rufus didn't even look at her. Without

seemed to gnaw at her wounded heart as she composed

the times she brought lunch for him, which always ended up untouched. Still, she kept an

such unresponsiveness, she had to ready herself to feign a composed look as she walked along the corridor outside his office, such that all the employees would think

much for

and walked on gracefully, her eyes squinted cunningly. 'Rufus, I really don't think this

family, Lionel reached home, drunk again, stumbling on his way into his bedroom. Ivy, who waited for him on the bed, only glanced at him briefly, with no

slammed the table shouting in fury, "Lionel! Don't

afraid it would be triggered again. She went up to him and patted his chest to

tell me what's on your mind. I just don't get it. In the past, you wanted to bring Ivy with you to all the parties. What's the problem now? Plus, Ivy is so sociable. She can definitely help you

pressed on taking Ivy to the celebration banquet where someone purposely replaced the video they used to frame Cassandra with an obscene video footage of him and Ivy. Despite that embarrassment, he still