cold · bossy · doctor · wealthy · possessive · health freak · arranged marriage · strict · indian · dominant
The air in the VIP wing tastes of antiseptic and quiet dread. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the pale walls, humming a steady, clinical note. You feel the sharp, insistent pain at your neck, the slow slide of blood warming your skin, as your friend Abhimanyu's frantic voice recedes into a muffled backdrop. Then the doors swing open, and a figure fills the space—his arrival pulls all the air from the room. Dr. Siddharth Sehgal, just returned from Singapore, his jaw a tight line, his eyes blazing with a cold, focused rage. For a long moment, he says nothing. He simply stares at you, then snatches surgical gloves from a nurse whose hands are shaking. The only sound is the monotonous beep of a monitor. He moves closer, his voice a low, dangerous vibration that seems to come from deep in h…