A Graduation Gift

The clock that hung on the wall of the hospital room tickled 7 o' clock, and it was a cold evening. The spring rain kept falling outside while Cassandra was busy with peeling an apple for Rufus. Enticed by the look of the fresh fruits, she added some oranges and bananas, placed them on a plate and handed it to Rufus.

"Can you help me eat these fruits?"

Rufus popped out a request as he lovingly looked at her.

Hesitant at first, Cassandra opened her mouth to refuse but was held silent on second thought. After all, he was a patient and she should take care of him. Carefully, she cut the fruits into smaller pieces with her fruit knife, picked a small piece and lifted it gently to his mouth.

"No, I want you to feed me using your mouth!" Rufus blurted a silly request and refused to take the apple on the toothpick.

With an intimidating expression in his eyes, Rufus smiled a little and looked at Cassandra.

"Alright, I bet you don't want to eat any fruit for now!"

With a heavy hand, Cassandra put the fruit plate on the table and decided not to bear with him again. The more she yearned to him, the eager he was in teasing her.

'What a greedy man you are, Rufus, ' Cassandra cursed silently.

Seeing that she was pissed off, Rufus reached out for her hands to give her a hug. But Cassandra was so annoyed that she didn't want any body contact with him. She struggled with all her might to free herself from Rufus's grasp. When all of a sudden, Rufus let out an alarming gasp, "Ouch! My leg!"

Showing a miserable expression on his face, Rufus knitted his eyebrows and puckered his lips. Cassandra relaxed her body and stopped struggling in his arms. She held her breath because she was so nervous at what might cause the pain in Rufus.

Rufus chuckled silently and heaved a sigh of content. Realizing that he was joking with her, Cassandra stared at him with eyes in a huff.

"Why are you staring at me that way, my little frog?"

Feeling silly like a child, Rufus lifted the corner of his mouth and cracked a charming smile at her. He was trying to calm her down using his charm. But for Cassandra, his efforts were futile and his words still sounded ironic.

"Hmm, to see where you can go, big fly!" Cassandra contradicted immediately.

Still annoyed by his prank, Cassandra kept fixing her stony stare at Rufus, blaming him for his unreasonableness and unusual behavior. She stayed with him almost twenty-four hours a day; because of his injuries, Cassandra couldn't leave him alone and had to do everything he asked her to do.

These past few days, she was always late to work in the morning and left her office early in the afternoon. With her performance, she believed that her image of being an excellent boss had been ruined. Despite all these, she didn't regret a thing, because Rufus was more important than anything else.

"Well, the big fly wants meat…"

Carelessly, Rufus never minded what she said. He gazed at her bare neck and ran his eyes down her chest.

"No way!" Cassandra shouted straightaway.

her hands around her neck hurriedly and glared at him as

run his eyes like that when he was still lying on the sickbed

disturbed when they heard a knock on the door. Cassandra jumped out of his arms in a shock and straightened her clothes

just lay comfortably on the bed and didn't move

he shouted

little to have a clear view of the visitor.

with his usual poker face and walked directly to

Luo, because of Mr. Tang's incapability, we've missed many projects that were supposed to be in the bag. The worst was that the Dawn Star Group got them all. The entire board of directors was shaken and they're waiting for you to

was reporting to Rufus, there was an air of

the business, Rufus was not surprised by this news—he had foreseen

Dawn Star Group would make some big movements and that they needed to get ready, but it seems that things are not

company, Rufus raised his eyebrow and spoke with an

The Tang Group was more dead than alive under his management while the Dawn Star Group had grown up bigger and stronger. Arthur needed to establish his own credibility by suppressing the development of the Tang Group. However, Lionel himself had not realized it

you have any suggestion to the board, Mr. Luo?" Victor asked firmly.

and emotionless as he naturally was, Victor looked at Rufus and waited for

them to wait for me. I'll go to

Rufus finished his words, Cassandra interrupted him and strongly

and you need at least a month to recover. You're

on his leg worriedly, she glanced at him unpleasantly and gave him an alarming expression.

Please take it easy and I

expression, Rufus looked into her eyes as if telling her

want him to explain why things have gone

Victor nodded to him and left the room without any more words. Rufus loosened up on the bed after Victor disappeared from the door and

feel I smell awful

and sniffed at his underarm. He couldn't have a bath since he broke his leg in the accident. Although Cassandra wiped him with warm towers every day, it was a torture for him because he was a fanatic for cleanliness.

with me and I didn't

words. She was

reluctant; if only he could manage to walk, he would be clean and fresh all by himself.

you help me to take a

expression on her face and finally spoke out his request. Then with his dark and

a cherry immediately. She had never expected that he would ask her to help

with the smell. Please

do, after realizing that his

the bathroom and turned around to face the door. The next moment, she was curious why he was standing there with

don't you start showering?" she asked.