Chapter - 45 - Try me

The team walked back to the department room and let out a deep sigh. "I think Dr.G's presence makes the patients recover faster than the medications," said Stanley after drinking a glass of water.

"Usually the patients chat a lot during the rounds but today when they noticed Dr.G was not with us, none of them opened their mouths," said Alice. "That's how much the patients adore, Dr.G." said Dr.Victor with a smile. "I am going to call Dr.G." informed Dr.Ralph and started to dial her number.

Back in the apartment, Gianna finished washing the dishes and saw Rick sitting on the edge of bed with clenched fists when she returned to the bedroom. She didn't know why he was angry and she didn't have any interest to know about it either. "It's time to change your bandage. Take a seat on the couch." said Gianna as she walked in front of Rick to retrieve her phone from the table.

Rick's rage slowly disappeared as he heard her angelic voice and felt weirdly soothing when she walked in front of him. He felt like holding her in his arms and never let her go. He let out a deep breath not understanding why he had such weird thoughts and walked to the living room. It was almost 11 in the morning and he didn't know where to stay until Derrick picked him up.

Gianna brought over the medical kit and sat beside him arranging the requirements neatly on the disposable cover spread over the table. Rick stared at her beautiful face and was not sure whether she actually cared for him or was only doing her doctor duty. Gianna looked at him and said, "Do you expect me to take off your t-shirt?" Rick was taken aback by her question and slowly took off his t-shirt.

Last night's incident flashed through Gianna's mind as soon as she saw Rick's bare chest. Her face flushed immediately and her cheeks were burning hot. Gianna turned away to try her best to stay calm and stop thinking about last night. Rick also felt uncomfortable as he was never in such close proximity with a woman in his entire life till that moment with exposed body. He also didn't want the woman to see the scars on his body but that could not be avoided now.

Gianna cleared her throat and said without looking at him, "I will change your bandage now." Rick felt odd about her action because she was head on with him previously but now she didn't even want to look at his face. Rick guessed that she also felt uncomfortable about being in close proximity with him. "If you feel uncomfortable, I can do it myself, Dr.G." said Rick in a sincere tone.

Gianna was stunned when she heard him mentioning her name and looked at him with surprise. "Oh! When I unplugged your phone, the screen lit up and unintentionally I read the text message. It was really unintentional." said Rick, wanting to clear the misunderstanding. She unlocked her phone and saw it was a message from Victor. She didn't want to engage in a conversation with him and kept the phone aside before she took the scissor to cut his bandage.

Rick was relieved that she didn't make a fuss about it. Gianna leaned towards him and started to remove the bandage around his waist. Rick's heart went crazy as she kept moving back and forth from him while removing the bandage. It was like she was tempting him to actually hug her. Rick can clearly smell a vanilla scent from her slender neck which made his body stiffen. He shut his eyes and closed his fists to calm his heart. He was losing his mind slowly.

Gianna noticed his body movements and thought he was in pain. "Is it that painful? Ease your body and don't stiffen it. Just let it out rather than controlling it." said Gianna as she was cleaning the cut. Rick chuckled at her and said, "I don't think you can handle it if I let it out, Dr.G."

Gianna was confused hearing his statement and felt there was an underlying meaning to that but didn't bother about it much and said with a smirk, "Try me." Rick has never encountered a brave woman like her and was more attracted to her personality. Gianna continued to apply the cream and started to bandage the waist again.

Rick didn't know how he would control his emotions again and thought of various things to distract his mind. Just as Gianna started to bandage him, her phone started to ring and saw Ralph's name on the display. Rick furrowed his eyebrows seeing a male name appear on the screen. Gianna looked at her hand, the phone and then at Rick's face.

Rick also looked at her at the same time and asked, "Do you want me to get it?" Gianna nodded and said, "Put in the speaker mode and don't make a noise." Ricked smiled and put the call in the speaker mode.

"Dr.G! Are you alright? Do you have any health issues? Do you want us to come over?" Ralph bombarded her with questions without letting Gianna reply. Rick noticed a faint smile on Gianna's face when she heard the caller speaking and wondered what was her relationship with the caller. "Done with your questions? Can I speak now?" asked Gianna, still bandaging Rick.

Rick felt a slight tickle in his ears and goosebumps spread all over his body when her warm breath touched his ears. Gianna didn't notice any of Rick's body reactions and kept speaking to Ralph.