Chapter - 63 - Strangers forever

Gianna was sure that today was her day of misery and didn't know what kind of misery was waiting ahead for her. She went to the department room and sat down for a briefing. Victor informed all the details, and Gianna listened carefully.

Gianna looked at the surgery schedule and gave them a few sets of instructions. "Let's have our dinner today in the cafeteria," said Gianna as the discussion was over. The team nodded and left for the cafeteria together.

Meanwhile, in the Visconti base, "So are we going to use his grandson as bait? Would that work?" asked Derrick, looking at Rick with doubt. "Albert, you will go to the hospital tomorrow night and take him hostage," said Rick, ignoring Derrick's question. "Rick! I don't think Mr. Ellerbrock can be easily tamed by using his grandson." Derrick voiced out once again.

Rick slammed on the table as he looked at Derrick with bloodshot eyes and said in a thunderous voice, "Did your bloody plan go well the last time? If you don't think this would work, then let's stop everything here now! Bring me my money, and I will be on my way." The men around Rick were terrified by his cold aura and took a few steps back. Derrick felt like he shot his foot with his own gun. He fell silent and dared not open his mouth as he listened to the rest of the plan.

Rick went to the clinic to change his bandage after briefing the plan. The doctor instructed the nurse to change the gauze around his waist so that the doctor could examine the cut later. Rick didn't feel comfortable showing his body to the nurse and his body automatically repulsed against the close proximity to the nurse. He stopped the nurse and asked the doctor to do it himself.

"She is an experienced nurse. She will take care of it properly," said the doctor with a smile. The nurse was young and was immediately attracted to the good-looking Rick. She didn't wait for Rick's response and was about to remove his t-shirt. Rick looked at the nurse with narrowed eyes and asked in an icy tone, "Do you have a death wish?" The nurse shivered at his question and left the room immediately. The doctor instantly moved beside Rick and changed the bandage. Rick went to his room after treating his wound.

"Gianna, my body also misses you," mumbled Rick as he lay down on the bed with his eyes closed. "I don't know what is happening to my brain and heart. Both the organs are confused as hell. Is this a temporary effect? or am I going to suffer throughout my life?" Rick continued to ask stupid questions to the pillow next to him. He considered Gianna to be the pillow, and God knows for how long he kept talking to the pillow before drifting off to sleep.

Gianna and the team had their fill and went to rest for the night. Gianna freshened up and laid down on the bed. She thought about how she had a small talk with Rick yesterday on the balcony and how childishly she acted in front of him when she lay on the couch.

'You can talk to me as you wish' this sentence kept repeating in her mind, and she mumbled in a low voice, "What a hypocrite you are, Rick. You told me I could talk as I wish, but you don't want to meet me ever again! If we meet again, I will kill you with my own hands. Let's be strangers forever!" She cursed him for a while and slept as time ticked away.

Gianna was awakened by the startling ringtone and answered the phone without a delay as she saw the call was from the ER! "Dr.G! Please come to the ER soon! The patients are in a critical stage!" shouted the nurse from the ER department. "Take the scan. I will be there soon," said Gianna. It was 5 in the morning, and she quickly climbed off the bed to get ready. She freshened up quickly and told the team to assemble in the ER as soon as possible!

Gianna stepped out of the elevator and saw her team standing near the resuscitation area. She quickly moved toward them and saw three patients heavily injured. She asked Victor to brief her as she moved from one patient to another.

"This a drunk and drive case, Dr.G. They did not wear seat belts, and the one who drove the car died on the spot. She is in her early twenties with no past medical records. She was unconscious on admission. Intracerebral haemorrhage was observed from the scan, and there are lesions on the front and opposite sides. It is a counter-coup, Dr.G." Gianna instructed Stanley to prepare the operating room immediately to move the patient and to check the alcohol level in her blood.

Zane moved to the side so that Gianna could examine the next patient. "This is a depressed skull fracture. Prepare the operating room immediately. Check his alcohol level in the blood before administering anaesthesia." said Gianna as she examined the patient.

"He is allergic to Penicillin, Dr.G.," said Victor as he passed the CT scan to her. Gianna looked at the scan with a raised eyebrow and said, "There is no CSF leakage or bleeding as for now, but keep checking till we start the surgery." She took another look at the scan and moved to the next patient.

"He is in his mid-twenties and has no medical records. It is a case of contusion seen both in the frontal and temporal lobe," reported Victor as he passed the CT scan. Gianna looked at the scan and told them to prepare for the surgery.

She called out to Alice and instructed, "Call Dr. Jason and inform him that there is a patient with a depressed skull fracture, and he needs to be operated on within 30 minutes."

Alice quickly retrieved her phone and dialled Dr. Jason's number.