All the sleep imdiately left Grace when she heard Aleena’s panicked voice through the phone. Moving to a sitting position, she quickly asked, "What happened?"
[Boss, there’s a person here who tried to break on to our floor and is asking about you. He seems to be in a really bad state. If you want, we can take care of him imdiately-]
"No! Wait. I’m coming downstairs." Grace quickly dismissed Aleena’s idea of taking care of the person who tried to break past the security system they had installed on the 20th floor to keep the top three floors of the building safe.
For so reason, she could think about only one person when she heard Aleena’s words, and it made her slightly panic.
She quickly climbed out of the bed and headed out of her apartnt. What she didn’t expect was to find Davian inside the elevator when the door opened for her.
"Did you receive call from your n?" She asked as she stepped into the elevator.
"Mmm. They said soone tried to break onto the 20th floor. Of course, that’s not important enough for to head there myself... but then they told that this person is talking about coming here on your orders." There was an edge in his voice as he answered, but Grace had no ti to pay attention to his unusual tone.
His words only made her guess about the intruder’s identity stronger. She knew that this person was none other than Dr. Kian.
The elevator stopped on 20th floor and she quickly stepped outside, only to find nearly a dozen people standing in the hallway. Among them, three were her own team mbers.
"Where’s he?" She asked the mont her gaze landed on Aleena who imdiately stepped aside to let her see him.
Grace stilled the mont her gaze landed on Dr. Kian and she took in his state. He was severely wounded, blood covering his white shirt. He was drenched from head to toe and looked extrely pale. Not only that, his eyes were closed, and from where she was standing, she couldn’t see properly if he was even breathing or not.
Dread descended over her as the worst thought possible entered her head, taking away her breath and leaving her in despair. She wasn’t sure from where she found the strength to keep moving, but the next thing she knew, she was rushing forward and crouching on the floor next to him.
"Dr. Kian..."
She tried calling him but her voice ca out as a re whisper. She tried again, forcing her voice to be loud and stronger. "Dr. Kian, can you hear ? Are you still there?"
When he didn’t answer imdiately, she inched closer and grabbed his shoulders which resulted in a painful groan from him. She imdiately took a deep breath of relief once she confird that he was still alive... or barely alive.
"Dr. Kian, open your eyes. Look at . You are here, you are with . I will take care of you, okay? Stay with ." She kept talking to him as her eyes scanned his body and she imdiately noticed that he was carrying severe injuries on his body, especially the cut on his stomach.
Her eyes imdiately moved to the people standing around her and stopped on Davian who had been silently standing on the side, watching her worry about a man who appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night.
"Davian." She called, her voice filled with hope and urgency that imdiately pulled him out of his trance. "You have a doctor in your team, right?" She asked, recalling the information he shared with her about his n who were present in the building with them.
"Right." He confird her doubt, filling her with more relief.
"Great. Please call her. We need to save him." It may not sound like it, but she was requesting him to save Dr. Kian’s life. She was able to notice the shock that appeared in Davian’s eyes, but he was quick to school it.
He nodded toward his n who moved forward, putting Grace on alert that not only surprised everyone present in that hallway, but even her. "I..." she tried to find words to explain her action, but there was nothing for her to say.
"They will take him inside. We can’t treat him in the hallway." Davian explained and only then did she stood up and stepped back to allow his n to pick up Dr. Kian and take him inside one of the units.
She was about to follow them inside when Davian grabbed her arm and stopped her. Those who were still present in the hallway imdiately left to give them privacy so that they could talk.
"Are you alright?" He asked as soon as they were alone and he had her attention.
Surprised at his question, she slowly nodded her head. She suddenly felt the need to explain to him, especially after witnessing how taken aback he looked with everything that was happening and also by the way she was behaving. Truth be told, even she wasn’t expecting herself to react like this.
"He... he’s soone I know, and... I’m the one who called him here..." she wasn’t sure what she wanted to explain, but she felt the need to say sothing.
There was silence following her awkward words, but then she heard him asking - "Is he soone important to you?"
She looked up and found him looking back at her while he waited for her answer. She kept her gaze locked with his as she answered truthfully, "Maybe just as important as you are. No more, no less."
Once again, there was silence, but then she watched him nodding his head before he reached out to cup her cheek and spoke in a gentle voice, "Don’t worry. Rebecca will do her best to save him. He will be alright."
Even she didn’t know how badly she wanted to hear these words. She nodded her head and the two of them finally headed inside the apartnt where Dr. Kian was taken monts ago.
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