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.

neck hurriedly

ridiculous of him to run his eyes like that when he was still lying on the sickbed because of

they heard a knock on the door. Cassandra jumped out of his arms in

comfortably on the bed

shouted towards the

his back, he lifted his head a little to

usual poker face and walked directly to Rufus, not minding Cassandra as if she was invisible.

Mr. Tang's incapability, we've missed many projects that were supposed to be in the bag. The worst was that the Dawn Star

was emotionless when he was reporting to Rufus, there was an air of

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

big movements and that they needed to get ready, but it seems that

expected did happen to the company, Rufus raised his eyebrow and spoke with an expression of

terms of running a company—he lacked strategy. The Tang Group was more dead than alive under his management while the Dawn Star Group had grown up bigger and stronger.

the board,

as he naturally was, Victor looked at Rufus and waited

wait for me. I'll go to the company

Rufus finished his words, Cassandra interrupted him and strongly objected

walk normally and you need at least a month to recover. You're not

cast on his leg worriedly, she glanced at

Please take it

her eyes as if telling her to

and I want him to explain why things have

loosened up on the bed after Victor disappeared from the door and shut off the business from his mind.

don't you feel I smell

since he broke his leg in the accident. Although Cassandra wiped him

me and I didn't

to the implication in his words.

reluctant; if only he could manage to walk, he would be clean and fresh all by himself. However, the injury left him with no choice but to depend on Cassandra.

can you help me

and finally spoke out his request. Then with his dark and mysterious eyes, he fixed his stare on her

to respond, Cassandra blushed as red as a cherry immediately. She had never expected that

work tomorrow, and it's not polite to let the directors sit in with the smell. Please put some waterproof bandage on my leg and help me to the

what she should do, after realizing that his request left her blank

Cassandra helped him to the bathroom and turned around to face the door.

don't you start showering?"