Love the Cook

Chapter Nine

"I thought you were supposed to be gone for a couple of days and now you're back. What's the matter?"

Luke coughs on my face and I hold my hand up to my face to see what is on me, blood. I sit there weeping, hoping it's someone else's blood and not his and the thing I know is Luke is in the hospital in a coma. I know my husband is hiding something, so I look up and study the ceiling. After a few minutes, I climb up on the bed and push up a title then move my hand around. At some point, I feel my hand run over a piece of laminated paper so I grab it then bring it into the light to read it. Of course, it's in German, but I have Google Translate this time.

Luke Windfall,

Deine Mission vom Meister ist es, jedes letzte Goldene Herz zu töten, das es gibt. Es sind nur noch zwei übrig, die Zwillinge Love und Loyal. Ich werde dich daran erinnern, warum die Goldenen Herzen versuchen, alle in ihre Pläne zu ziehen.

Ihre Pläne werden in Kraft treten, wenn die letzte Lieferung eingeht, die Anfang September kommen sollte. Du wirst zum Hafen von Goldenheart gehen und den Arbeitern sagen, dass du ein Freund der Liebe bist, damit du die Kiste bekommst. Wir sehen uns dort.

Krähe Vernichtung

That is the original document, here is the translated one.

Luke Windfall,

Your mission from the Master is to kill every last Goldenheart that exists. There are only two left, the twins Love and Loyal. I'll remind you why the Goldenhearts are trying to get everyone involved in their plans.

Their plans will come into effect when the last shipment arrives, which should come in early September. You will go to the port of Goldenheart and tell the workers that you are a friend of Love so that you can get the box. See you there.

Krähe Vernichtung

I sit there, trembling. What plans did my family hide from me? When was that note written? I notice that Rose isn't mentioned in the letter so it must have be written before Rose was born. But it was written after Mom, Dad, Auntie and Uncle died of course. Maybe Krähe knows Luke is in a coma once again, I hoped he didn't because if he did then he'd go through with the plan.

A few hours later, I come up with a plan, when Krähe tries killing me because he assume I'd carry out the plan that my family has. I'll act like I didn't know (which I didn't until now) and hope that he falls for it. What about Rose? What would I do about her? I can tell him that Rose is a Windfall and not a Goldenheart using Google Translate, of course. Today is August 31 and I have no idea what day I'm supposed to meet him so I pick up Luke's phone and unlock it with the password: Schokolade.

Ii's easy to get the password because he loved chocolate and he has the German flag as his phone case. The language on his phone is German, but I changed in to English for the time being. I flipped through his text massages with Krähe and copied them to Google Translate.

Krähe: Sie werden mich am seven. September im Hafen treffen. Haneul wird auch dort sein.

Luke: Das bin doch nur ich, oder? Liebe und Rose werden zu Hause sein.

Krähe: Ja. Sagen Sie Ihrer Frau, dass Sie für ein paar Tage weg sind.

I take a deep breath and wondered what I should do to see if Krähe knows that Luke is in the hospital then I hear Rose yell, "DADDY!" I run over to my daughter, picked her up, then put her in the car seat. Then I get into the diver's seat and begin to drive to the hospital. When I arrive, I help Rose out after finding her shoes then put them on her feet. I walk into the building then go to the front desk, seeing a lady with blond hair and green eyes and I write I want to see Luke Windfall. The nurse nods and guides me to Luke's room. Rose starts to whimper so I rock her gently to calm her down. As we enter the room, Rose screams and I turn around in fear, Krähe is staring right into our eyes.

"Besuchen Sie Papa," my daughter says in German, and I stare at her, so I'm the only one who didn't speak German. The man nods then the nurse tells us to leave and we do, leaving me in tears.