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and picked up speed. Throughout the day, she avoided the corridor

intentionally. Although she knew Dushyant would be sleeping, she would
still have found herself at his bedside.
Why? He is just an insolent bastard!

To distract herself, she went to check how Pihu’s surgery was going.
Arman had planned everything to the last detail. He didn’t want to use any

hospital staff, knowing well that if he were to get caught, it would land the
others in trouble too. Days before the scheduled surgery, he had complained

of fungus growing in the ventilation vents of the surgery room. The surgery
room was closed down for a few days till further notice. Arman was put in

charge to see it was taken care of, and that it didn’t spread to the other
rooms. Arman’s boss, the Chief of Operations, was surprised to see Arman
take the initiative.

The room was used that day to operate on Pihu. The surgery was
supposed to be long and dreary and considering that Zarah had not seen

Arman since the morning, it seemed like it was. Zarah knew Arman had
sought external help—some surgeon buddy from his medical school—but

he didn’t want her to know. The less she knew, the better it was for her.
How much worse can the day get? With that in mind, she walked towards

the surgery room. When she reached there, she found that it was sealed. She
ran towards the elevators and saw Arman shaking hands with a guy almost
of the same age. At a distance, she waited for the guy to leave and then

walked up to Arman to ask how it went.
‘Hi,’ she said.

‘Hi,’ Arman replied.
‘How did it go?’ she asked in hushed tones. There were others in the

elevator too, some of whom were doctors. Arman kept mum till the time the
elevator reached the floor of their office.

‘It went well. It was tougher than we initially thought it was. It’s a very,
very difficult surgery. Thank God I had—’ he stopped.
‘Do you think she will be okay?’ she queried as they walked to his office.

‘I don’t know. I think we did everything right. We need to keep her under
constant observation to test the progress. We aren’t sure of anything yet.