The Donor House: Taryn: Rescued (part 2)

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Part 1

Taryn wasn’t entirely sure how to react to the conversation they’d just had. Silver was a vampire who rescued humans from bad situations… it didn’t seem possible, but she knew that her parents had been borrowing money from a vampire, even though she’d been trying to convince them that it was a really bad idea that was going to lead to major problems in the future. As usual they hadn’t listened to her. Money was too important, money was how they kept a roof over everyone’s heads, and if they didn’t have money they’d end up starving on the streets. Even though what they said was true she knew that borrowing it from a vampire wasn’t going to end well, especially when they couldn’t pay the money back.

“How bad was it?” she asked, looking at Silver.

“Normally he sells the people he gets to the auction. It makes him back a little money and your parents will still owe him.” Silver shrugged. “That’s not a hole they’re ever going to be able to get out of, because he’s not going to let them.”

Sighing, Taryn nodded. “I didn’t think he would.” She bit her bottom lip. “My brothers?”

“I was too late to help them. By the time I realised what was going on they were already in the house. Thankfully you’d decided to head to the library for a couple of hours and that gave me the chance I needed to rescue you.” Silver shrugged. “Although I’m not sure you thought you were being rescued.”

“It’s fine.” Taryn smiled, even though she couldn’t help thinking of the fate that was in store for her brothers. “How can he get away with it?”

“Vampires in high places. Not every vampire is out to the public yet, even though you all know we exist, and there are some in places that mean the loan sharks can get away with pretty much anything they want, including taking people as part payment.” He ran a hand through his hair. “There is a chance that I might have made things worse for your parents, but I’ve been through an auction and I know how difficult it is, so as far as I was concerned you were more important.”

“He won’t kill them, will he?”

Silver shook his head. “No, not while he could use them. His anger will make him less kind to them when it comes to paying them for their sons and if they don’t agree to give them up willingly he’ll take them, because they’ll be nothing they can do to stop him, no matter how hard they wish there was. Unfortunately they took what seemed to be the easy way out.”

“The easy way is never easy.” Taryn lent against the wall. “What happens next?”

“You’ll have to stay here for a couple of days until I can find some transport and then we’ll send you to the donor house. It’s safe there.”

“Do I get a choice in this?” Taryn looked around the room at the group who’d obviously all been through the same sort of thing and found a couple of them were grinning at her. “Maybe I don’t want to go to the donor house.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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because they’ll be nothing they can do to stop him

I think you mean "there'll" (there will) not "they'll" (they will).