As It Seems...: Short Stories by Delta Marie

Author:Delta, Marie [Delta, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Once there, Duncan is booked and placed in a holding cell. All the man can do is shake his head. How did the old man disappear? How did that bag of rocks get in his pocket? Why wouldn’t the key work? He laid down on the hard bench and closed his eyes, rubbing his head vigorously to try to rid himself of the headache all of the commotion had caused. What got to him the most, though, was not the headache or the previous unanswered questions, but the fact that the hotel owner acted as if he had never seen him before. How does a man forget another so quickly? He had just allowed him to stay at a discounted rate. They had just stood less than a yard away from each other bartering over a night’s stay. How could he not remember?

Eyes still closed, Duncan heard a distinct, “Ahem,” coming from within his cell. He slowly opened his eyes and turned his head to the right, only to find Rodrigo sitting on the concrete floor across from him. Duncan hopped up and grabbed the old man by the front of his shirt, then, thinking about what he was doing, he let him go and took a step back.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”

The old man smiled and said nothing.

“I said what the hell are you doing here?”

“No, my friend. If I am not mistaken, you actually said, ‘What the fuck are you doing here?’”

“C’mon, don’t bullshit me. Just answer the question.”

“I will tell you when you calm down.”

“I am as calm as I’m gonna get.”

“Another untrue statement.”

Duncan could not hold his composure and stepped up again, getting in the old man’s face. “Tell me what the fuck I need to know or fuck off!” He said the words slowly and deliberately. He knew the Rodrigo, and or the demon had played him and the game had landed him in jail; a place he had been avoiding with all of his might.

The old man smiled and said, “Okay. I will tell you what you need to know. Sit down.” Duncan sat and the old man spoke, “I am to die tonight. I cannot live another day. The demon inside me knows, and he told me so. We need you. We need you to accept him so that he can live on. We knew you planned to steal the money, so we waited, and set you up so that we could get what we needed.”

“I told you I’m not doing it. How dense can you be?”

“I assure you I am not dense at all. It is you that is missing the big picture here.”

“What makes you say that?”

“You are in jail right now. We can see to it that you never make it out of here.” The old man smiled again. “We can put you in prison for life.”

“So you’re blackmailing me?”

“If that is the way you would like to think of it; yes, we are.”

Duncan began to play with the hem of his shirt.

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