Karma by Maximino Vega

Author:Maximino Vega [Vega, Maximino]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

The basement is where Luis invested his money, making it sound and escape proof.

The first thing Luis did was change the flimsy door that gave access to the single staircase that led to the basement. He installed a top of the line recording studio door to keep sound in. Next he enclosed the staircase with walls, adding another studio grade door at the bottom of the steps.

He soundproofed the basement with three layers of soundproofing material.

Luis divided the 1500 square foot basement right down the middle with a wall. Both rooms were set up in the same fashion.

He built a door frame at the end of the wall nearest the enclosed staircase.

He installed a shower stall in the corner to the left of the doorframe. Followed by a washbasin-toilet combo and a wall mounted metal bed frame with a rubber mattress.

A small metal table with one chair was bolted to the floor in the middle of the room.

The last and most important piece of each room is a steel wire rope. One end has a padded ankle cuff. The other end is attached to a retractable pulley bolted to the wall near the head of the bed frame.

The wire rope stretches enough to allow the wearer of the cuff to move about the room freely and as far as the edge of the door frame, without the benefit of being able to look into the other room.

Cuffed to the end of each steel rope, in their separate rooms are Megan and Ian. Every day they walk to the edge of the door frame and hold hands as they talk. That’s all they can do. They haven’t looked upon each other’s face in the last ten months.

Luis’s coffee always goes cold before he drinks it. He likes to sip his coffee and takes his time doing so. Besides, he likes to pay attention to Channel 12 where he watches the Hudson Valley News. He’s been watching Channel 12 ever since he left the four dead bodies at the bottom of Sparrow Lake.

Every day he sits down to his coffee waiting for the news broadcast that will show the metal box being lifted out of the water as the reporter speaks of the horrifying find at Sparrow Lake. He never misses the Hudson Valley News report because he knows it could easily come to light the day he misses the broadcast or decides not to watch it.

Luis microwaves the cold coffee. Thirty seconds on high warms it up just right. He takes his cup of coffee out to the deck. He drinks it down faster than normal as he looks out onto Baychester Bay.

He takes in a deep breath inhaling the salinity of the ocean.

Luis turns from the view of the water and walks into his kitchen closing the door behind him.

He puts the empty coffee cup on one of the kitchen counters and starts working on breakfast for his guests. Even though they’re being held prisoner he considers them his guests. He’s come to look at them like family.

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