THE RICH DOCTOR VS THE WITCH DOCTOR

CHAPTER 9

chapter 9

Shruthi was exhausted when she took an auto. Unexpected emergency surgeries had her night tied up. The only thing that got her powered through the night was the spaghetti and the look on Rishis face seeing her gobbling it with her hands, along with some of the duty nurses. Thinking of the disgusting look he gave her, automatically brought smile to her face.

When she took her mobile she saw many messages and calls from Ri and Vimal. Ri's message had code words for trouble, Vimal's message were desperate warnings. This was the first time in a year she had been travelling alone. Vimal used to drop her so she understood his concern.

There was a lot of chatter in the Miracle chat group about Dr.Rishi he seemed to be closer with some nursing staffs, some maintenance workers and some doctors. Dr.shilpa, Dr.Mercina, Nurse Divya and herself were the top of gossip. While others thought it was his charm Shruthi knew the real motive of Rishi . One particular message caught her sight . One among THE LIST were complaining that he was being followed.

Shruthi looked through the mirror of the auto the early morning traffic was sparse just some cars a cyclist and 3 motor bikes were behind the auto. Shruthi stopped the auto at a newspaper stall and got down to get paper. she glanced at the traffic behind all rushed past her. She thought she was being paranoid.

When she was half way,she checked the mirror and found a Ducati following her, which had gone passed while she was buying her paper.

Shruthi paid the auto driver and asked him to wait for 10 minutes longer and then drive off. She got down at a Tiffin center which she often visited and went through the back door & hired a cab to her house. While she was passing a intersection she saw the bike guy arguing with that Auto driver.

She was not Paranoid her gut was right and it was time for her next step. But first she needed two days of complete rest and sleep in the comfort of her home.

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When Prashanth walked into the conference room his Dad and Rishi were immersed in deep conversation. Rishi's list now had only 10 names.

"Sit, sit" Sk told Prashanth "Dr.Malathy is on her way"

"She's back?",Prashanth asked

"Yes, she cut short her trip, as she has acquired the information we are looking for"

"Do I need to be present?"Rishi asked as he was not briefed about the meeting with dr.Malathy

"This is where your help comes in handy. You must have heard about our pharmaceutical excellence product The EM fort? Well we are 1 step away from becoming the international exporter and getting the patent rights. My life long dream", Sk seemed lost in thoughts for sometime.

"So where do I come in?" Rishi was curious

"The Witch Doctor seems to know a bit lot more than she should know, and has been constantly writing about it. The leak has to be from inside, we find the leak and plug it so that our product gets an international recognition", SK said with victorious smile.

"Well done Dad! I for once was happy that you were worried about my reputation, now its clear you are a selfish, egomaniacal, Narcissists", Prashanth stromed out of the room.

Rishi was thinking of an appropriate thing to say to break the silence, but he found none, and Dr.Malathy's entrence was God sent.

"Hello gentlemen! shall we begin?" she asked with an air of authority.

At her late forties Dr.Malathy was a renowned OBGyn 4th among the best in India. Though she was overweight she never let it over power her. She was a like a jar of energy.

Sk choose her personally to represent his company as he trusted her skills and experience. She was the unnamed brand ambassador for EM Fort.

"Carry on", Sk signaled

"These are the Indian & international Companies, willing to tie up with us based on our research and results for the past 10 years. There is no allopathic drug that can actually work as effective as EMF in regulating female menstrual cycle. The additional value to our medicine is that it's not An oral contraceptive and is safe".

"so why are you keen on suppressing the witch doctor?" Rishi asked

" One of the panelist in the international board of FDA is Vishwanath , a man who will never ignore even a sentence that is about a drug in front of him be it good or bad,"Sk's eyes were a bit unstable when talking about vishwanath

"Then we shame the credibility of the Witch doctor", Prashanth was standing in the doorway

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"Hi I live in the corner house. I thought i saw someone I know here. IS this dr.shruthi's house?" A man asked Mrs. Varshini

She smiled "yes this is her house, but she's asleep. can you come after 12pm" she smiled "ahhh your name?"

"I'm Rishi", he smiled and headed towards his house