The staff got startled hearing the voice and immediately took their spots when they registered the owner of the voice. Adi had his back turned towards the entrance from where the voice came. He was dumbfounded when he heard the familiar voice. He had an ominous feeling about this and was too scared to turn around to confirm his doubt.
"And you, are you the new intern? How insolent. First, you were late on the very first day of your duty and now you dare to engage in gossip with my staff and patients when you should be doing your duty. Is this what they taught you in your medical college?" the voice sounded even more furious than before. "Why are you still facing that way. Turn around and face me when I am talking to you."
Everyone in the room felt bad for Adi. Anaya was a pure devil when it came to her work. She would not tolerate any blunders and irresponsible attitudes and had made many nurses cry when she came here at the beginning.
Adi reluctantly turned back to face Anaya, praying all the Gods he knew that the owner of the voice to not be the person he was thinking. But it seemed the Gods were on leave as his prayer was brutally ignored. He almost ran away when he saw the owner of the furious voice. Nevertheless, he managed to stay in his position but his whole body was shuddering with fear. "Good morning ma'am" he managed to say in his quivering voice.
"You!!" Anaya frowned. She was surprised as well. She did not expect the new intern to be him. No wonder he was late. He had no manners, to begin with.
"My name is Adi, and I am the new intern here. I have heard a lot about you ma'am, and I will try my best to learn as much as possible from you. Please forgive me for my behavior today. I promise that this will never happen again. I promise I will arrive half an hour early. If you ask, I will stay in the hospital itself so that I will never be late. I will also never engage in futile conversation. In fact, I will not talk at all. I am very sorry ma'am. Please don't beat me" Adi said in a breath as he cowered in fear. Punches from her were still fresh in his mind, and he could feel the pain even now whenever he thought about them.
Everyone in the room "-_-"
They understood the part when he was afraid and apologized for being late. But what is this 'Please! do not beat me.' Why would Dr. Anaya beat someone? Why was he behaving as if he saw a tyrant? She was a doctor, not some tyrant.
Anaya's mouth twitched on hearing his apology. 'Is he trying to ruin my reputation?' She quickly hid her stunned expression and said in a stern voice, "follow me" heading towards her cabin where she would be seeing her daily outpatients in ten minutes.
"I am very sorry ma'am. I will never do such things ever again" Adi apologized again as they entered the chamber. He almost kneeled before her, tears ready to fall from his eyes at any moment.
Sister Marie who had also followed them was surprised as well as confused by this behavior of the new intern. She did not know what to say. In her twenty years of experience, this was the first time she saw an intern crying on the very first day of his duty, and that too when the doctor was yet to assign him his duties and scold him.
Anaya felt a headache coming when she saw the terrified expression of her intern. It seems she went a little too far back then. Just as she was about to say something, the door to the chamber opened, and in came two handsome men. One was wearing a doctor's white apron while another was in a three-piece suit.
"Ducky about the rumors, Dheer and I came to a decision tha…." the rest of the sentence stuck in Rudra's throat when he saw the scene in the cabin. His mouth twitched when he saw the face of the person who was almost kneeling in front of Anaya.
"You?? What did you do to him now? Didn't you already punish him in the mall back then? And where in the hell did you find him? This is a hospital, Anaya. You cannot beat people here. You are a doctor for God's sake! What will your patients think about you, huh?" Rudra rebuked her helplessly. He just could not deal with this child anymore.
Dheer also saw the scene unfolding, and he was surprised to see the man almost on his kneels with teary eyes. However, he found the whole situation rather cute. Specially Anaya's face right now. He gulped as he just wanted to kiss her like what he did in his dream last night. He just kept his mouth shut as he kept gawking at his wife's face. Nobody noticed this as everyone in the room was focused on Rudra right now.
Well, not everyone. Adi was still in his almost kneeling position as he was too scared to get up. But he very clearly recognized the voice of this person.
Anaya felt wronged for being scolded unjustly and almost pouted. But she maintained her poker face as she was in the hospital right now. 'I will deal with this piggy later. I am yet to make requests from him as he promised when he told Sandy everything. Now, just you wait, piggy. I will show you how cruel I can get. Hmphh...'