The Flower Shop (The Seed Traders' Saga Book 2) by Petra Durst-Benning

Author:Petra Durst-Benning [Durst-Benning, Petra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503950139
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2018-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

Kuno Sonnenschein went to sleep that night for the last time, and for all time.

Ernestine’s scream the following morning rang through the hallway, and it was not long before all the residents of the house had gathered at Kuno’s bedside. Bewilderment, horror, disbelief. Ernestine shook her husband’s lifeless arm, telling him not to make such undignified jokes. Flora promised that she would never, ever mention the language of flowers around him again if he would please, please wake up.

Only when the doctor that Friedrich sent for confirmed the death of the master of the house—heart failure, nothing unusual in men of Kuno’s age, sadly—did the terrible truth begin to seep into the consciousness of the family.

In the days that followed, the bell over the shop door did not stop ringing. Else Walbusch, Gretel Grün, and many other neighbors came to express their condolences.

Flora’s hands trembled as she tied the wreath for Kuno’s funeral. The winter sun gleamed through the window, its rays falling directly onto the counter where Flora worked. For a moment that went on uncannily long, it seemed to Flora that Kuno was watching her from heaven as she worked. Just as he taught her to do, she checked that every little twig was cleanly tied to the one beside it.

She was in the process of attaching a bouquet of white roses to the wreath when the mailman arrived with the latest issue of Die Gartenlaube. The moment the mailman was gone, Flora broke down sobbing. Kuno would never know what became of the prisoner in his beloved serial.

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