That morning was a beautiful one.

He had his first comfortable sleep since ages.

He opened his eyes and saw that beautiful woman in his arms. Her face looked all unfamiliar but he knew it was her. Propping himself up, he looked at her face all curiously like he was looking at her for the very first time.

He ran his fingers all over her face tracing every inch of her.

Her forehead, her nose, her lips, her jawline and then back to her forehead again, trying to cover every millimeter possible, trying to remember the touch of her face in every possible way.

Then suddenly the doorbell rang and he rushed to get the door so that her sleep would not be disturbed.

At the door, he collected the laundry and requested for breakfast service in the room.

Keeping the clothes aside, he took out everything that he needed to show her, his medical reports, prediction analysis provided by Oshana, pictures of her, that he had taken all these days in secrecy.

He paced eagerly in the room waiting for her to wake up.

It was 6:45 am and her meeting was to start at 9:30 am, so he had decided not to wake her up for another 1 hour.

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As she got up, the first thing that she did was to check her phone for any call or message from Raymond but there were none. That was like a morning ritual for Oshana because in case there was anything new that he remembered or he couldn't remember, he would inform her so that she could do her case study in depth.

But today there was no such message on her phone.

So she called him up.

"Hello"

"Hello Oshana"

"Why are speaking in such a hush-hush tone?"

"Wait a minute", saying that Raymond came out in the balcony and then spoke in his regular voice,

"Yes tell me".

"No, you tell me. Is there anything new today? You are felling any better or worse? You didn't send any details today".

"I was never this better", he said and smiled.

"I do not understand", Oshana replied as she was perplexed with his answer.

"I have decided on doing something that you have always wanted."

"What are you talking about?"

"I have decided to stay with Akira. I am going to tell her about everything. I am going to give my fate and love a chance".

"Wait, what?"

"Yes, Oshana, I have realized that there is no point of hurting myself as well as inflicting pain on her. This whole staying away from her thing, it's already killing me. I can't see her any more hurt like this. I know that things will get all complicated after this, but I know that we can fight it out, together".

"What happened overnight?", Oshana asked in surprise.

"Sudden realization you can say".

"So it all happened just by seeing her?"

"Well, I wouldn't put it that way".

"Can you tell me everything clearly?", Oshana asked impatiently.

"Good God, you sound more excited about it than me", Raymond joked.

"Well of course I am, finally you did what I always wanted you to do".

"She is with me right now and I am going to tell her about everything as she wakes up".

"That's huge Raymond, that's really huge".

"I know".

Then taking a deep breath he said,

"Thanks for always having my back Oshana, for being more than a doctor".

"Oh please, just shut it ok !!!"

Saying that Oshana disconnected the call.

The fake smile that she had plastered on her face, evaporated in seconds and it was replaced by nothing but grim.

She closed her eyes and thought for a while and then texted someone,

"Code Red, right now. He is going to tell everything to Akira when she wakes up" - [Dr. Smeathe]

"Looks like you didn't scare him enough" - [PRIVATE NUMBER]

"Enough? I told him that all this will eventually lead to partial paralysis and then complete memory loss. How is this not enough?" - [Dr. Smeathe]

There was no reply from the other side for a file.

So getting scared she replied,

"I thought he wouldn't like to ruin her life when he knew that he was going to face these conditions. I had somehow put this thought in his head that his days are numbered. He totally bought it and was never going back to her, just because he loved her. I had also increased his valium dosage to keep him calm all the time. I tried my best you see" - [Dr. Smeathe]

"Then why does he want to go back now if you had tried your best?" - [PRIVATE NUMBER]

"I think he has caved in because he saw her and probably came close to her" - [Dr. Smeathe]

On the other side of the phone, the anger of the other person was increasing in leaps and bounds. His brows were furrowed and he kept staring at the wall for a while and then made a call,

"Hello !!! Sebastian here".