Chapter 34 In The Bathroom


    As the night grew freezing cold, Cassandra and Rufus shared a kiss that burned passionately.


    Cassandra nked out by the overwhelming passion she felt. She could feel nothing but the burning


    desire of the ardent man. With her eyes wide open, she gave him no resistance and just let him do


    whatever he wished.


    His mouth covered the fullness of hers and they were biting and exploring each other''s lips. Cassandra


    didn''t want that to stop. Rufus, however, let her go for he could no longer catch his breath. He looked at


    her so intensely that he was still biting his lips savoring the taste of thedy. The woman was left


    bewildered. The kiss felt so long and so pleasing up to the point that she couldn''t remember what she


    was doing.


    "We''re here,"


    the man whispered in her ears. Their bodies were pressed against each other. They were so intimate


    that when the man spoke with a low and charismatic voice, the woman felt totally ted. Looking at her


    eyes, he couldn''t hide the mirth and pleasure he felt deep inside.


    It was then that Cassandra realized what had just happened. Feeling the intense heat and the intimate


    position they were in, she gave him a gentle push and cursed in a cute voice, "Bastard!"


    Her voice was mixed with anger and shame. Even though she was cursing him, deep inside she knew


    she enjoyed the feeling. Despite the fact that it was too embarrassing for her to admit, she loved the


    way Rufus kissed her. She hated the idea that she liked the kiss and wanted more of it.


    ''Why did I even let the kiss happen?'' she asked herself.


    Escaping from the strange thoughts, she quickly got off the car and rushed into the hotel, totally


    ignoring him who was just following her closely. Her lips were quivering as an aftermath of the torrid


    kiss.


    ''Cassandra, what have you done?'' The question kept on bugling her mind.


    Rufus who was just walking behind Cassandra, casually with his hand inside his pockets. He couldn''t


    help smiling at the sight of her murmuring to herself.


    For him, the night became more charming and interesting because of this woman.


    Inside the deluxe room of the hotel, sprinkles of hot water from the shower trickled down onto the floor.


    Cassandra immersed herself in the hot water, letting the water flow from her head, to her face, down to


    her breasts, her waist, and her legs. The water was way hotter than the normal bathing temperature but


    she didn''t seem to mind. She felt numb and careless.


    She was merely standing there staring nkly at the floor. Her mind was preupied with the earlier


    kiss and the emotions she felt associated with that kiss.


    Rufus'' face kept on lingering through her mind. It was glued and tattooed on her mind and she didn''t


    know how to shut it out.


    ''Cassandra, did you enjoy that kiss?'' she asked herself.


    The woman gently touched her lips with her fingers, remembering how Rufus'' soft lipsplimented


    hers. Cold shivers run down her spine at the thought of it. Bracing herself, she pinched her cheeks a


    little to shut out the absurd thoughts on her mind. She reminded herself that she couldn''t continue with


    such a state of mind. She felt silly and out of her mind, which was very unusual for her.


    The unforeseen kiss from Rufus had been torturing her. Now she couldn''t even think properly, but


    worse was to follow - she was kind of expecting something more intimate than a kiss.


    ''What are you expecting?'' she asked herself once again.


    Quickly she med herself for consistently thinking of him. When did she be so attached to him?


    It was just a kiss? What was the magic of that kiss that would trouble her until now?


    With all these thoughts on her mind, she hadn''t noticed that she was still standing under the hot


    shower. The bathroom turned disturbingly hot as steams hanged in the air. Cassandra''s cheeks were


    now crimson red caused by the heat from the water coupled by the warmth she was feeling inside


    thinking of Rufus.


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    Unconsciously, she lost track of time. The heat was now creeping into her senses. But she stood still


    without moving an inch away from the shower. She couldn''t think clearly, her brain was in total chaos


    and her visions were clouded by the thickening steams.


    Strangely, she couldn''t breathe normally. The temperature of her body continued to rise. She was


    starting to feel dizzy.


    ''Am I going to die?'' she wondered. That was herst thought before she copsed. She could no


    longer support herself that she fell on the floor with a loud thud.


    Snap! Her heart leaped in shock by thepact.


    She felt a searing pain in her back. Luckily, the pain awakened her senses. However, even as she


    temporarily regained her senses, her bodycked the strength. She felt weak and exhausted. She


    wanted to grab onto something so that she could stand up, but failed. She was so weak to even raise


    her arm.


    ''Why am I so dizzy?'' she asked herself. Shaking her head, Cassandra tried to stay awake. But that


    didn''t help. Desperately, she bit her lip to lessen the numbness of her face. She went too hard and


    droplets of blood smeared on her lips.


    She was struggling to save herself, but suffocating in the heat, especially with the heightened smell of


    blood diffused by the steam.


    Feeling totally weak, she had given up all efforts to get up. She let herself lie on the bathroom floor with


    the shower still spraying hot water over her. On the contrary, she felt better lying on the floor. The floor


    felt cooler, giving her a temporary remedy from the burning sensation.


    ''I guess, I''ll just lie here for a while, '' she told herself. ''The door was locked. No one would be able to


    save me now. The best I could do was just to do nothing for the meantime and rest on the floor until I


    could gather some strength to get up.''


    Thinking of that as a bright idea, she then closed her eyes with no intentions of falling into sleep on the


    wet floor. The hot water was still spraying on her.


    …


    Soon, somebody was knocking on the door outside her room.


    It was Rufus. In order to catch the flight, they didn''t have time to eat. So Rufus, after taking a brief rest,


    came to invite Cassandra to have dinner with him.


    He had been knocking on her door for quite a while, but there was no reply from her, not even a single


    sound from the room.


    With each passing second, his face was turning dark. Abruptly, he felt a surge of panic.


    Cassandra, to his knowledge, was not a woman who would throw random tantrums. Refusing to open


    the door, or even refusing to tell him that she didn''t want to open the door was definitely not something


    she would do. ''Could it be that she is avoiding me because of the kiss?'' he began to doubt.


    Finding a possible reason for her abnormal behavior, Rufus settled down a little and asked a waiter to


    send some food to Cassandra''s room.


    Shortly after he returned to his room, the waiter he had talked to came back.


    "Mr. Luo, I have knocked at the door of Miss Qin''s room for several minutes and there was no


    response."


    Upon hearing the bad news, the panic that he managed to contain engulfed him. His face turning bleak,


    he hurried back to her room.


    As he knocked at the door incessantly, he ordered the waiter to get the spare ess card from the


    reception.


    "Cassandra, are you inside?" he shouted out loud. "Open the door!"


    Now his impatience and worry heightened, and his knocks on the door grew stronger and louder.


    However, the response from inside the room was still dead silence.


    It didn''t take long for the waiter to retrieve the ess card. Narrowing his eyes, he soon opened the


    door and entered the room in a swift motion.


    Cassandra wasn''t in her bedroom.


    Standing in her empty room, he was swallowed by his anxiety and worry.


    The vague sound of flowing water reminded him of something. Hastily, he rushed to the bathroom and


    knocked at the door.


    "Cassandra, are you inside?" he shouted.


    There was again, no response.


    The man felt something was wrong. Forgetting about the possibility that she could still be showering,


    his anxietypelled him to open the door without her consent.


    Blows of hot steam surged out, making him frown. Amidst the water vapor, the woman was nowhere to


    be found.


    His face turned grimmer, and heat was spreading across the room. His calmposure was gone and


    was reced by a nervous panic.


    "Hmm, it''s so hot. So hot…"


    His visions were clouded by the steam so he hadn''t noticed that someone was lying on the floor. It was


    her voice, weak and vulnerable; he knew it was her. Hearing her voice made him assume that she was


    safe and wiped all his worries away.