Cry of the Firebird by T. M. Clark

Author:T. M. Clark [Clark, T. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781489260901
Amazon: B07SHW47B3
Goodreads: 46230751
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2019-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

20

Lily had been home a few hours and had at last stretched out on the couch to watch TV after she had completed all the paperwork that Piet and Natalie had made her fill in about what had happened.

The youngster had outrun Piet, and there had been a car waiting. Piet had run the plates, but they were stolen, so they were no closer to knowing who had attacked her, or what they were really after.

A call came in on the house phone. Lily answered it.

‘Dr Lily?’

‘Yes?’

‘It’s Elise. It’s an emergency. Coti won’t wake up. I tried and I tried, but she is sweating and sleeping.’

‘Do you know if she took something to make her sleep?’ Lily asked, rubbing her temple.

‘No. She has been sick for a day, maybe two. Piet asked me to keep checking on her for him, but something is wrong, and I can’t get Piet on the phone.’

‘We’re coming. Try to keep her cool until I get there,’ Lily said. ‘Are the kids okay? Did they settle in back at home?’

‘Yebo. Sorry about the bad ending to the day, they seemed to have loved the market. David seems taken with Spiderman now.’

‘We will have to try it again another day, see if we can erase the bad memory of me being attacked there, make it all glitter and sugar again,’ Lily said.

‘I think they would like that.’

‘Right, you see to Coti, I’m on my way.’ Lily hung up and immediately rang Piet, who picked up on the first ring.

‘Lily?’

‘Elise has been trying to reach you.’

‘I just plugged my phone into my bakkie charger. I am about to leave the station.’

‘I need to get Coti into hospital. Sounds like she has gone into a coma. Can you meet us at the turn-off into Platfontein? Quintin can drive.’

‘I will be there. Lily, you sure you are feeling up to this? Perhaps if I bring her in—’

‘She will be in such pain if it is meningitis. She’ll need something to help her at least with that before you move her, and you don’t have anything you can give intravenously.’

‘Nee.’

‘It will be okay; Quintin will be with me. We need to save Coti. I’ll be fine,’ Lily said.

She put down the phone and stared at it for a long time. Of all the days, why today? Could Africa throw any more at her?

* * *

Lily administered the antibiotics into the drip in Coti’s arm. She watched as the steady blip of the heart monitor continued and rubbed her eyes. The massive headache that she’d got from the bump on the back of her head that morning wasn’t helping at all. Nor the bouncy ride into Platfontein that Quintin had undertaken with her. Despite arguing with her, he already had the Land Cruiser keys in his pocket and was walking out the door, still telling her why it was a bad idea. She loved that man and the way he cared so fiercely for her. Always wanting to protect her from the cruel world out there.

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