Medical Addiction

Chapter 2

Rena’s POV

She quickly put on her scrubs and gloves and rushed out of her office.

"Doctor Azer, ahh I was just coming to get you. I’m glad you haven’t left already,”Reynolds, a nurse that closely worked with her, panted.

“It was not yet six, Reynolds.” She reached the emergency department. “Status report,” she asked the intern nurse.

“We have …we have twelve casualties. Four in critical condition and… and one currently dead.”

“Dead??” she yelled. “What the hell!”

“He died in the ambulance, Ma,” she looked at the intern. She was young and shaking and this was all new to her. She smiled at her knowingly and looked at her name tag. Gina.

“How old are you, Gina?” she asked.

“Nineteen,” she blurted.

“Well, I am twenty-three and at your age, I was still afraid of blood.” She tapped her shoulder. “You are doing well, you can do this,” she reassured her.

“Thank you,” her lips curved to form the brightest smile Rena had seen all week.

“Good. Now try to keep up and assist the other doctors."

She nodded.

She rushed into the ward where the casualties were and found three doctors in there already, attending to the patients. Rena quickly rushed to a lady and assessed the damage to her burns. The paramedics had already given her lactated ringers solution and applied water gelatinous dressings. But unfortunately, they had not noticed one tiny detail. This lady was pregnant.

“I need to conduct a full body scan right now!” She yelled at no one in particular and Reynolds appeared.

“What do you need?” he asked, equally surprised by her outburst.

“I need to move her to the diagnostic imaging room.”

“Yes, Doctor.” Reynolds beckoned two nurses, and together they wheeled her over there.

After conducting a full body scan, Rena’s hypothesis was right. The lady was pregnant and in her third trimester.

“How is this possible?” a nurse asked.

“Her placenta is located at the back of her uterus,” Rena replied, bored.

“s**t!” Reynolds cursed. Yeah s**t.

“We need to conduct an operation,” she declared.

“But we do not even know who she is,” a nurse protested.

“No one is here to sign the approval,” Reynolds reminded her.

“The baby’s health is deteriorating rapidly. His heartbeat had already slowed down significantly. For all we know, she might not have any family. Even if she does, do you want them picking up their sister or daughter or wife with a dead baby in her womb because we were waiting for some signed document?”

“But…” a nurse tried to protest.

“Wheel her to the theater. Your doctor has spoken.” Reynolds defended her. She will forever love him.

“Go to Gina and tell her to come here,” she told a nurse once they were in the theater.

After the other nurse was done preparing the lady for the operation, she asked her to leave, but be on standby.

She only needed Reynolds there with her.

Soon after they had started the operation, Gina walked into the theater and was fully covered and masked just like the rest of them.

“Brace yourself Gina, you are about to see why they call her a kick-ass Doctor.” Reynolds commented, and Rena couldn’t help but chuckle.

Secan’s POV

The fire burned and burned. He made sure of that.

He also thought he made sure everyone was out of the mall before setting the fire. It was a simple job really. Just malfunction with the fire alarms and make them ring for five minutes before starting the fire. That would give people a five-minute head start. His plan was to burn one of the biggest malls in Little Cliff to the ground. No, he’s not the villain, he just takes out the villains through villainy.

“What am I going to do with you, Thames?” he looked at the battered-looking man tied to the chair. “It was a simple order really. Play with them for five minutes before starting the fire,” he rolled his ring around his fingers.

“I’m so sorry,” blood splattered from his victim’s mouth. If he let him go, he was certain Thames was going to have a hard time eating solid food again. Emphasis on if.

“Sorry?” he chuckled. “You wanted to have a taste of power, didn’t you? Under my command you wanted to be the one in charge!” He half-yelled.

Secan was about to hit Thames again when someone peeked through the door of the basement, sending another streak of light from above.

“I’m sorry to bother you underboss, but you have a message from Ricardo,” the newbie said to him.

“Can’t it wait?”

“I’m afraid not, underboss.”

“I’ll be back and if another person dies as a result of your stupidity, I will take it from you one hundred times more,” he spoke to Thames and wiped the blood from his knuckles. After ascending the stairs, he went to the computer room where Ricardo, their tech genius and two others stayed and covered their operations.

“Underboss, I think something is wrong somewhere. We all know how reckless Gem gets.”

Secan’s eyes widened at the sound of his sister’s name from Ricardo’s lips.

“What happened to her…can’t you track her location?”

“I can, the problem is where she’s at ain’t good…ayyy..,” Richardo stuttered.

“Where’s she at?” He tried to keep his voice as cool as possible.

“She’s at Little Cliff's hospital.”

“The hell?”

“She could have just accompanied her friend to the hospital from the mall,” Ricardo gulped loudly.

“No way. Gems wasn’t at the mall that caught fire, was she?” Secan held Ricardo’s collar.

“She was.” Ricardo panted and Secan pushed him away.

“Why am I just hearing about this?” he yelled to the other technicians.

“Apparently they weren’t doing their job,” Ricardo said, arranging his collar.

“Get the car ready, Ernest,” Secan yelled through the window and turned to the eyes that were on him. “If anything happens to my sister,” he looked at their sullen faces, “you will both know why they call me a kick-ass under boss.”