212 Inevitable Crash 4 (1/2)
The evening was as bad as Kyro had promised. Lucy kept on trying to walk, and failing. When it was time to eat, he barely ate a couple bites of the specially prepared mash, but even that was soon vomited out.
Once the painkillers wore off, he started meowing in loud, heart-rending tones. When Iris tried to feed him a tablet, Lucy didn't even look its way. He just kept on meowing and looking at her with pleading eyes.
In the end, they managed to trick him by hiding the tablet in a miniature piece of chicken. He wasn't supposed to eat something like that for now, but he wasn't going to swallow the medicine any other way.
For a time after that, Lucy was calm, sleeping fitfully. But during the night, he woke up. It was hard to say whether it was pain or something else, but he crawled to the bedroom door and began meowing in a sorrowful voice.
Kyro then had to get up and pick him up, but Lucy didn't want to stay in his arms. A few seconds later, he began struggling, trying to escape. ”What is it?” Kyro asked, but the cat had no answer.
In the end, Kyro just carried him back to his nest. Lucy sniffed a few times and changed position, but didn't move more.
This was around midnight, and everyone went to sleep after that. But at four o'clock, Lucy was meowing again. This time it seemed that the painkillers had worn off. With a touch of annoyance, Iris got up and fought a battle with him to feed him another tablet.
Twenty minutes passed till she managed to do it.
When Kyro's alarm rang before seven o'clock, Iris was ready to murder someone. She had barely closed her eyes for a moment, and here she had to get up again.
The alarm rang and rang, until she could take it no more. Turning it off, she woke Kyro up. As always, he wasn't too appreciative about being woken up, but he didn't complain. It wasn't her who had a job to go to.
Noticing her reluctance to get up, he pulled the covers back over her. ”Just sleep. I can leave on my own.”
”Mhm…” That sounded too tempting to refuse. The moment Iris closed her eyes, she was already halfway to the world of dreams.
Kyro took a shower and made himself some coffee before leaving. On his way out, he took a glance at Lucy. The cat lay motionless at the moment. He looked asleep if not for an open eye that followed Kyro's every move.
”You're gonna get better, old man, don't worry.” Kyro bent down to caress his head, then left the house. This place was a little farther away from his job, so he had to leave earlier.
When he came to his office, Lara was already waiting for him, her expression grim. ”There's been a few more who have withdrawn,” she said while passing him the documents.
After a quick glance, Kyro calmed himself that all of these were small fish. But then, the big fish were taking their time to leave. Once they saw all the small-time investors jump ship, they would start moving as well.