Episode 5 : Taking no chances

The doctor went in to check on him.  After a while, one of his bodyguards came out and called out to her saying “Boss is calling you”.

She wondered what awaited and went in.  He lay there, dressed in a pale blue patient’s gown with an IV attached to his wrist. Beside him stood J. As soon as she walked in, he asked him “How do you want me to deal with her” with a scary smile on his face.

The ‘boss’ just looked at her and asked “You have helped me and I don’t want to owe you anything. What do you want?”

J looked surprised when he heard him say that.

“Just let me leave here, safely” she requested.

He paused for a few seconds. She couldn’t make out what was going on in his head.

“Okay” he agreed. “Stay back for now. I will ask my men to send you back home morning.”

She wanted to go home right then but she could not afford to take any chances and agreed right away.

“Are you letting her go just like that?” J opposed.

“If it weren’t for her, I would have been right here but dead.”

“She poses a potential threat. You don’t even know who she is. It is better to get rid of her than taking any risks” he argued.

“I am not asking you J. I have already decided on this and don’t argue with me any further.”

J didn’t utter a word and just walked out furiously.

“You can sleep here for now” he told, pointing to the couch.

She shook her head in agreement. He picked up his phone and called someone.

“Get a blanket for her. Also get an ointment for bruises”.

Within few minutes, the blanket was brought.

“Give the ointment to her and leave.”

They did as they were told.

“Apply the ointment on your bruise. It will heal soon.”

She applied it on the bruise his men left on her wrists and sat down on the couch.

She couldn’t help but look at him. She couldn’t observe his details before as everything happened so abruptly. His soft, messy curls covered his forehead. A chiseled face with a jawline so sharp that one could actually measure it with a protractor. He had an olive skin tone and a pair of bluish grey eyes that made him look like an idol, sculpted by god himself.  You could just look at him at him all day and never get enough.

“Seen enough?” She didn’t realize that she was staring at him until him questioning her brought her back to reality. She didn’t know how to respond because she herself was embarrassed being caught staring.

“What is your name?” she asked, trying to avoid his question.

“Why would you need that?” he questioned her back.

“I can’t call you ‘Boss’ like your men because I don’t work for you”

“Then, who do you work for?”

“Oh come on! Not again. I am sick of answering the same question again and again” she sighed.

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