“I know every place in this city. Which area?”
“I’ll show you… Amaal, I’ll call you back.” Samar saw Iram, dropping to the ground, security and the crowd around her. He cut the call, running through the tourists down the street.
“Move! Move!” Her security was making a bubble around her, pushing everyone out. Shehzad, her Head of Security, had her head in his lap.
“Let me in.” Samar stepped up. “I’m a doctor.”
The crowd parted for him immediately. Shehzad’s eyes met his and the security recognised him. Samar thought they would stand against him but an opening was made.
“Run to the headquarters and get my medical kit.” He ordered behind him, kneeling beside her and taking her wrist in his hand. Her pulse was jumpy. Doubly jumpy. He pulled her eyelid down. Dilated.
“Madam had a dentist appointment and passed out the moment she came under the sun.” Shehzad relayed, holding his mobile to his ear — “Get the car!”
“What procedure did she have?” Samar glanced over his back, the crowd bringing phone cameras out. “Move her to the car. Where’s the car?”
“There!”
The security bubble pushed and Samar saw a way open up to the car, the door open. He covered her as Shehzaad picked her up and deposited her inside the car. Samar took the seat next to her, holding his hand out for the kit that came. The doors were shut, and the convoy kicked into motion.
“To the hospital,” Shehzad ordered the driver. Samar wrapped the BP cuff around her arm, taking her pulse again. 110.
The BP came 90/70.
He stilled.
He stared down at her.
Her skin was pale.
Eyes still closed.
“We can take her home for now,” he directed.
“Hospital…”
Samar pulled out his mobile and scrolled down his list of Favourites. He dialled.
“Yes.”
“Iram fainted on the street outside the headquarters…”
Atharva went silent. Then yelled — “Where is she?”
“She is fine, still passed out. I am having her driven home.”
“Take her to the hospital first I am leaving…”
“It’s better if we take her home.”
“Why? What’s wrong… Samar, if…”
“She will be fine. Just come home.”
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She woke up just around the time Shehzad deposited her on the bed in Atharva’s room and ran out to get her things.
“Wh…” she croaked, then immediately set her hands on her stomach. She panicked, gaping up at him.
