Chapter 87 - Adding Fuel To Sleeping Beast.

(Please read the chapter 85. 'Silent live' before reading this chapter. It's been replaced.)

Luther raised his head to look at his friend, Mark. 

Mark is also a doctor, in fact, senior to Kyra in medical school and he is also one of her friends back in London. He is one of the few people who knows how much Luther loved Kyra. 

"I don't think I have to worry about that.",

Luther answered. Mark has asked if he never worry about Kyra falling in love with another man in the USA. 

"And why is it like that?", MArk questioned sitting across Luther. 

Luther looked at the screen for the last time as he imprinted her happy face in his mind before ending the hideous video call Ryan did for him. 

"You know how Kyra is. She takes years of time to develop trust in someone so, how could you expect her to fall in love with someone she just met? Even if she meets someone worthy of it-" Ryan stopped abruptly, to give a thought about it. 

"Nah. After what happened in her past, I don't think she will make hasty decisions in something as important as this.", Luther finished, completely convinced by the answer he gave. 

Mark sighed. 

Sometimes Luther can be so full of himself and overlook important matters like this. 

"But bro-", Mark was about to persuade Luther but Luther interjected in the middle. 

"I am afraid, okay! I am scared that she would reject me.", Luther at last spilled out the real reason for delaying his love confession. 

"If she rejects me, I might not be able to persuade her into it. I can't bring myself to force her into giving me another chance if that makes her uncomfortable. So…I on…only have one chance and if…if she rejects me, I… I can't take it.", Luther said, fear evident in his stormy grey eyes. 

"I understand what you are trying to do bro and that is very sweet of you. You are considerate and very caring towards Kyra. You are the only one who really knows and understands her excluding her family. You are a very important person to her, so I think she would reject you right away."

"She might be willing to give you a chance as she knows how sincere and genuine you are towards her. However, if she starts falling for someone, she might not be able to give you a chance to prove your love towards her.", Mark told his friend. 

The reason Mark made a visit is to tell this to Luther. 

He started getting a bad feeling when he heard that Oliver and Kyra work together now. It is just a gut feeling as he is not sure whether Oliver is still Kyra's crush. He heard from his girlfriend, Kyra's one of the closest friends in the hospital, that Oliver Miller was Kyra's crush back in the US. 

"What are you trying to imply, Marl?", Luther asked, clearly puzzled why Mark brought this matter out of nowhere. 

"What I meant is that, you need to hurry with your confession as there are chances she might find someone who might move her heart.", Mark said, emphasising 'someone'. 

Luther narrowed his eyes. 

"Why do I feel like there is something more to this?"Luther asked. 

"Oliver Miller.", Mark said. He promised his girlfriend that he would keep this as secret but he can't see his best friend, Luther getting hurt. He has spent seven years of youth taking care of Kyra and he hasn't seen another woman for five years. 

It would really be a pity if Luther had to give up even before he could confess his feeling to Kyra. 

"What about Oliver Miller?" Luther asked. He is clueless about Oliver being Kyra's crush because he never asked her about that and Kyra on other hand didn't get an opportunity to bring it up. 

"You might not know but Kyra knows Oliver Miller from before. He… he was her inspiration who drove her to become a doctor and he…he was her first crush.", Mark said. 

"What?"Luther asked. He remembers asking Kyra why she chose to become a doctor. At that time Kyra told him that she got inspired by some doctor who saved two people at the accident site. 

Luther didn't ask that doctor's name back then because he thought it was impossible for Kyra to know that doctor by person. Kyra actually didn't know Oliver's name back then and only found out later when she got to see him in the news. 

"Yes. And, Oliver is her boss. Kyra is a fellow under him right now.", Mark told Luther. 

"Yeah… yeah, I know that." Luther said, a little worried now. 

"What if she gets attracted to him again? What if Oliver starts liking her as well?" Mark asked. Kyra is really beautiful, interesting and smart. Who would not like her?? If he didn't have a wonderful girlfriend, even he might have liked Kyra, who knows??

"Just because he was her crush once upon a time, we can't conclude that Kyra might fall for him. He was her crush before her life turned upside down. She was just a sweet, innocent teenage girl back then and I think he was just some good memory of past, that's it.", Luther said. But it sounded like he was convincing himself. 

Mark sighed. 

"Fine. If you think like that, I can't do anything! Don't come to me heartbroken afterwards.", Mark said and he was about to leave when Luther stopped him with a question. 

"Why told you that Oliver was Kyra's first crush?", he asked. 

"My girlfriend Maya." Mark answered. 

"Is it legit information?" Luther asked. 

"Yes, it is.", Mark replied before leaving the room. 

Luther felt uneasy after this conversation with Mark. He never thought Kyra had serious crush who was in fact the reason why she took medicine as her career.

He couldn't focus on anything else, so he could only call Maya and enquire about the details. However, the details left him more restless. 

'Daniel is Oliver Miller's best friend and is working in the same hospital. Why don't you ask him?", this is the last suggestion Maya gave to Luther before ending the call. 

After hesitating for a while, Luther gave a call to Daniel. 

"Dr. Smith.", Daniel greeted with a smirk. He was expecting this call for a while now. 

"Good evening, Dr. Richard.", Luther greeted Daniel formally. They are not that close to drop honorifics but they are not total strangers either. 

"To what do I owe the honor of your call?" Daniel asked as he took a look at Kyra's empty house. If Jennifer didn't come back to the country, Oliver wouldn't be struck having dinner with her family and his. 

If he was not having family dinner, he would be here, in Kyra's house, spending time with her. 'The beauty of the butterfly effect. A little provocation of third wheels and Kyra, Oliver are not able to spend time together as often as before.' Daniel thought as he patiently waited for Luther to jump to the topic. 

All he has to do now is add Luther into the equation and he is confident that it will change the course of love birds. After all, Luther is a very important person to Kyra. MAybe more important than Oliver himself. 

"Not much, Dr. Richard. As you know, my best friend Kyra is working in same hospital as yours.", Luther said. 

'Yes, of course. I am here because of her!' Daniel thought. 

"Yes.", Daniel said, pretending to sound clueless and confused. 

"I just want to ask how she's doing. She won't tell me anything worried that I will be restless.", Luther said, playing around the bush. He can't bring himself to ask directly because it would really sound silly. 

'Hey, I want to know if Dr. Miller and Kyra are getting close to each other'. 

It would sound really silly and awkward. 

"What a 'good friend' you are, Dr. Smith. You are just like her 'brother', always worried and concerned for her.", Daniel said, adding fuel to Luther's resting beast as he emphasised 'good friend' and 'brother'. These are the two roles Luther don't want to play for Kyra. Good friend is okay but it is also called getting 'friend zoned', which means, in Kyra's eyes, he is not some man but a friend. 

Luther fisted his hands, feeling annoyed to hear brother and good friend. 

"Well, she is doing fine. She got herself a few trustworthy friends", DAniel said, giving a pause after that. 

"It actually doesn't matter if her friends are trustworthy or not. She spends most of her time with her boss, Dr. Miller. They seem very comfortable with each other and it turned out Oliver Miller is the Godfather of her Godchildren. So, during her work time, she is in safe hands.", Daniel said, smirking cunningly. 

Luther felt his heart stop when he heard Daniel's words. 

Very comfortable??

How could Kyra get close to someone in this short span of time?? This is not who she is!! She should be taking at least two years or so to get comfortable with a total stranger. 

'Well, Oliver is not a total stranger.. He was her crush' Luther's subconscious mind reminded him, rubbing salt to his wound.