A Graduation Gift

Now it was clear as day why Clark was raging with hostility when it came to Rufus. They were rivals in business, but most of all, Cassandra was caught dead in the middle of it all. She even had plans to stay close with Clark as an undercover agent for Rufus. If everything Lyndsy said was true, it could mean that he was just using her to bring down Clark in their business competition.

An innumerable number of weird ideas began to float in Cassandra's head, which was giving her a headache.

"Stella, let me bring Cassandra home first. I think we'll both agree that she's not in a condition to be enjoying hotspot right now."

Lyndsy was under so much distress, feeling sorry for Cassandra. When she noticed that Cassandra was completely out of it, she came to the realization that she never should have told her anything about it for her own good.

But Lyndsy's remarks somehow helped Cassandra pull herself together. Resting one hand on the table, she faked out a smile.

"I… I'll be just fine. We shouldn't keep the hotpot waiting. Come on, let's eat."

Cassandra wasn't aware how strong she really was, at least not before being hit so hard.

The truth was that she wasn't in the mood to eat, but she knew she had to snap out of it.

Lyndsy and Stella had some fun light-hearted conversations as they ate the hotpot. They got along quite well after finding out that they shared the same interests. Lyndsy was more than happy to invite Stella over to work in her studio.

Everything appeared to be going along quite well, however, it was actually far from the truth. Cassandra's thoughts had actually drifted into a distant space. She put a spoonful of chopped green onion into her mouth, but it wasn't enough to faze her at all. In fact, a long period of time had actually passed and she still didn't realize what she had done.

back to the Garden Villa. She chanced upon

and handsome face wouldn't pale in comparison to Lyndsy's male actor friends.

on her

gently wrapped his arm around

down in the dumps, so she couldn't care less

as they

man, kind and understanding; sadly, Cassandra didn't have any feelings for him whatsoever.

Lyndsy and Stella goodbye, Clark slowly headed toward the courtyard, with

you've been getting yourself quite busy with work these past few days. Do you usually come back

striking up a conversation, with a

out for dinner

Her thoughts were scattered all over the place. From the moment she found out about the cold hard truth during dinner, her stomach

back to the villa, she updated me on how things were going with you. And right now, I can tell that there's

was afraid that if there was something

window so that he could meet her in secret. That was actually the reason why she

My mother is just

worn out and feeling so down, Cassandra didn't have any strength left to