Beginning Of An End (GM Series #5)

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I cleared my throat to break the awkwardness in the atmosphere. Grant's manager stayed silent while he still blushed from what he did. He's probably still embarrassed.

"I will check you now so you can go home and rest after," I said and without looking, he nodded. "What are you feeling?" I asked, I reached for his chin to tilt his head, enough for me to get the best view to check his eyes.

Using my penlight, I check his pupil's sensitivity to light. It's still constricted so, I moved to check his stitches.

"I feel fine. I just had headaches the other day," he answered my question.

I stopped from removing his bandage. "You had headaches? How frequent?"

"Umm. Three within the last week," he answered. "But it was normal to me. Given the nature of my work, but my headaches last week were the worst I have had."

"In the scale of 1 to 10, how worse were those?" I asked again.

"8?" He said. "My headaches used to be around 4 and 5 only," he replied.

I put back his bandage and said, "Let's get you an MRI," I said. I took out my phone from my coat's pocket and called someone to assist us to get him there.

"Does he really need that?" his manager asked.

I rolled my eyes, not minding if Grant saw that. "Yes. To make sure he doesn't have any hidden injuries inside his skull," I answered.

"How long will that take? We still have appointments to attend after this," she said again and hearing that ignited the annoyance I have kept since I met this woman.

"Depends on how fast the MRI will be done and, on its result," I answered.

"You have a shoot in an hour, Alexus. We can't postpone this again," she said to him before turning to me. "I'm sorry, Doc. But we can't do what you're suggesting. Alexus has lots of commitments to attend to."

I arched my brow and was about to say something when Grant spoke.

"Is thirty minutes will do?" he asked me.

I rolled my eyes again, intentionally showing it to him. I don't really understand why he is letting this woman control his life.

"We'll see," I said. "I will check if the MRI is ready. I will have you escorted with our nurses," I added before leaving his VIP room.

I headed straight to the MRI room and asked if the machine was ready and when the operator said yes, I asked the nurse on stand-by to bring him here. He arrived—with his manager tailing—at the MRI room minutes after. I signal them to run the process when everything is ready.

"He said he had severe headaches in the past week. I was thinking he might have hidden internal injuries." I informed Aydan as the procedure was going on.

"Did he show any symptoms aside from that?" He asked, turning to Grant's manager.

His manager shook her head. "He didn't say anything from having headaches."

"Why didn't you bring him back here the moment he had his severe headache," Aydan asked.

Aiko, as I remember her name, shrugged. "He always has headaches since he's always lacking sleep, so we thought it was a usual headache."

I arched my brow. "How can you think it was normal when he just had an incident that caused his head to be injured? As his manager, you should always make his safety and health the top priority," I said.

"He said he's fine, so I let it go," she answered.

"In denial patient always says they are fine even if they are not. You should have had the initiative to bring him here back," I can't help but say. I was really having enough of her.