The nurse ran past him. “Your father’s oxygen levels dropped. He tried to call you.”
He fumbled with the settings, fingers shaking, disabling the call barring feature. But it was too late. By the time he reached the room, the monitors were flatlining. call barring feature
His mother had stepped out to buy dinner. The doctor was in surgery. And Nandan, alone in his hospital bed, had just pressed the emergency button that routed through his own phone—the one Arjun had locked down so carefully. The nurse ran past him