The Traps of Black Swan

Nikun suddenly remembered Naomi when Shea was asking Aaron about her chances of survival under Doctor Wells who works at the neurology department in Rivas Hospitals.

Aware that Aaron had sent Naomi to the police station, he asked in curiosity, "Where is Naomi Fisher? What did you do, Aarvi?" Since she had told Aaron she would handle Naomi, he wished to know how ruthless she is.

Shea, who knew Naomi for a year in country S, asked without understanding what is going on, "What happened to Sister Naomi?" She asked but stopped them from speaking, "Wait…" She raised her hands at her brother and Aaron.

"Brother Aaron got Aarvi as soon as he returned to the country. So Sister Naomi still has the unrequited feelings."

She hadn't told anything about Cupcake to Naomi to avoid hurting her and she thought Naomi could change Aaron's heart. Likewise, she avoided speaking about Naomi with Aaron because he wanted nobody but his Cupcake.

She was excited to know Aaron got his Cupcake, now thinking of Naomi, she felt bad for her.

"Blind man!" Aarvi muttered next to Aaron for never noticing Naomi.

Nikun quickly wrapped his hand around Shea to cover her mouth and chided her, "How much do you talk? Stay quiet and listen." He forced her to sit in silence while Shea failed to get out of her brother's hold.

Nikun turned to the couple and saw Aaron pulling Aarvi's ear and the latter squinting at him, "Guys?" He brought them to the real world from their own world.

"Aarvi was too soft on her," Aaron said in disappointment. In fact, it was the first time Aaron wasn't pleased with her punishment.

Elbowing him, Aarvi countered grumpily, "I have my reasons to go easy on her."

'Reason?' That piqued Nikun's interest and Shea got out of his clutch, "Did Sister Naomi hurt you, Aarvi?"

Even though she was calling her by name, whenever she had to utter the name, she would pause and take the name respectfully. She too needs time to get along with a new person even though she had heard a lot about her.

Aarvi shook her head in response to Shea and left Nikun and Aaron speechless.

Aarvi glanced at Nikun's anticipation and glimpsed at Aaron who was adamant about keeping Naomi in the prison, so she decided to tell why she didn't want Naomi to be severely punished and always let go of her silliness.

--- Two years, one month ago ---

After the heart transplant, she was unconscious and her heart didn't show any rejection to her body. Hence Aaron had shifted her to the Avron mansion.

But after she woke up and slowly got to know she has the heart of the Rivas family, she felt like she owed them and started feeling the heart as the foreign organ which directly affected her weak heart condition.

Aarvi's heart suddenly started showing rejection to her body so she was in an ICU under extremely critical condition. Her blood pressure wasn't getting stable and the heart would literally skip beats.

All in all, her life was terribly on the brink. It was impossible for anybody to give assurance about her survival. She was under twenty-four hours of highly critical observation.

At that time Aaron hardly moved away from her. He was sitting in the ICU and working but hardly he took away his focus from her.

Aarvi frequently went in and out of consciousness. She wasn't responding or letting anybody touch her if it wasn't Aaron. She still had the fear of Leon using other torturous methods to kill her. She wasn't afraid of death but the soul trembling torture.

During that time, staying awake continuously without rest is impossible yet Aaron was pushing his limits. She had just woken up when she had heard an aged voice reprimanding Aaron.

That's when she got to know Aaron wasn't resting. She had just seen Jordan passing away at the door in displeasure before she had given in to her weakness and dozed.

When she woke up again, the first thing she did was to ask him, "Did you rest?" Her hoarse voice sounded looking at his dark circles when he was feeding her porridge.

Aaron knew she had heard his grandfather so he didn't bother responding. His icy expressionless face was really bone-chilling but Aarvi was yet to realize she still feels warm with him.

Understanding he hadn't rested, she had plainly asked, "What if the heart goes weak and you have to operate on it? Do you think you could perform the surgery without having proper rest?" It was obvious Aarvi didn't feel the heart like hers.

Jordan had failed to make him understand he needed rest but Aarvi succeeded. However, he was still reluctant due to her fear of touch.

"Will you be comfortable with other doctors?" He asked his important concern.

Even though she wasn't, she wanted him to rest too so she had nodded her head, hoping the heart won't trouble unnecessarily.

Aaron went to rest in the on-call room after being awake for more than twenty-four hours and there were a senior cardiologist and two nurses in Aaron's absence.

In just two hours, Aarvi who was asleep was forced to wake up by her heart which was ramming against her chest and unstabled her breathing too. The ICU immediately filled with loud beeps alerting all that Aarvi's life in danger.

Aarvi was in intense pain. She didn't feel her heart beating but shuddering and squeezing making her dizzy to focus on anything. She let out a groan when she couldn't control the excruciatingly sharp pain. She had to endure her whole body wrenching and twisting.

The nurses put on the oxygen mask to Aarvi and started making notes of her condition as they told the status to the doctor. The doctor and the nurse got busy controlling her state but it wasn't helping.

The nurse who was frightened, ran out to inform another nurse to get Aaron. Naomi, who heard the nurse, rushed in and quickly got the update from the nurse.

Due to Aaron, Noami was closely following Aarvi's case so that she could be of some help to him and spend time with him. She was more aware of the treatment and medicines of Aarvi than anybody else.

Looking at the senior doctor giving up, even though she was junior and inexperienced to treat the major cases, she was determined to save Aarvi.

She first took a note of the administered medicines and searched the medicine cart for a different one. Without finding it, she ran out hurriedly instead of wasting time speaking to the nurse.

Since the medicine storage was in the next room, she fetched the required medicine sooner. Naomi was indeed nervous but her determination was too high.

She wasn't any girl who wanted to impress her love, but a doctor who wanted to do her best to save the patient so she ignored the senior doctor saying they can't save the patient.

Taking a deep breath, making her heart stone-cold by seeing Aarvi in pain, she injected medicine into her. But it didn't have an immediate effect on Aarvi's conditions.

The senior doctor shook his head with an expression of, 'I told you..' which also affected the nurses' dutiful performance.