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

when he was still lying on the sickbed because

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

just lay comfortably on the

he shouted

a little to have a clear view of the

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 take over, expecting

was reporting to Rufus,

business, Rufus was not surprised by

big movements and that they needed to

expected did happen to the company, Rufus raised his eyebrow and

Lionel's ability in 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. Arthur needed to establish his own credibility by suppressing the development of the Tang Group. However, Lionel himself had not realized it and didn't

any suggestion to the board, Mr.

emotionless as he naturally was, Victor

to the

words, Cassandra interrupted him and strongly objected

you need at least

leg worriedly, she glanced at him unpleasantly and gave him an

I can manage it. Please take it

as if telling her to relax

be better if Lionel will be there tomorrow as well, and I want him to explain why things have gone out of control these past days,"

Rufus loosened up on the bed after Victor disappeared from the door and shut

don't you feel I

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

okay with me and I didn't smell anything except for the

the implication in his words.

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

me to take

not to see the expression on her face and finally spoke out his request. Then with his dark and mysterious

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

tomorrow, and it's not polite to let the directors sit in with

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

to face the door. The next moment, she was curious why

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