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The Donor House: Taryn: Rescued? (part 3)
“It’s for the best,” Silver said, sounding certain. “While you’re here you are in danger, because he is going to do everything he can to find you. Even though we’d do our best we can’t protect you from him, not in the way you would be in the House, so please think about going. Getting you away was simple, Taryn, but keeping you away, especially considering who it is, isn’t.”
“What about everyone else here?”
“That was different.”
Fleur shook her head. “Actually, Silver, it wasn’t, you just have another option now, but we all chose to stay with you. Taryn might well make the same decision.”
“Yes, you did, and I’ve told you before that if the House had been an option then I would have convinced you all to go, because then we wouldn’t have had to leave after every rescue.”
“Did you ever think we might have enjoyed that?” Fleur sighed. “Look, if I’d have wanted stability I would have found it, but I didn’t. I wanted to be with you, to go from town to town rescuing people who needed it, because I liked it. Being able to travel around the country is something I really miss now you seem to have decided that we’re staying here.” Silver opened his mouth to speak. “No, Silver, it isn’t for the best. You might think it is, for whatever reason you’ve come up with, but right now I’m seriously thinking of heading out on my own, because I don’t want to be stuck in one place.”
“Why not?” Silver asked, confusion replacing the certainty. “Fleur, I really am trying to make the best decision for all of us and no one else has said anything against us staying here.”
“No, we haven’t,” one of the male vampires said, “but that doesn’t mean we don’t feel the same way Fleur does. It isn’t unusual for us to stay in a town or city for however long it takes for you to find someone to rescue. We’ve done that part and now we have a new girl with us who doesn’t seem to be interested in going to the House, even though you think she should, but there is another option.”
“So you all want to continue travelling?” Brushing a hand through his hair Silver sighed. “None of you are interested in staying here, where we might be able to find more people to help?”
As Taryn looked around she wished she’d just agreed to Silver’s plan. It would have been much easier and then she wouldn’t have caused any problems within his group. She wrapped her arms around herself, feeling guilty, but she knew that even if she did say she’d go to the House it wouldn’t change anything. Fleur wanted to move on, and it seemed some of the other vampires did too, so they weren’t going to back down, not when it seemed like Silver was interested in finding somewhere he could call home. For the first time she studied him, thinking he might be better off at the House if that really was what he wanted, as his group didn’t seem to be at all interested in doing the same thing.
“You didn’t cause this,” Fleur whispered, putting a hand on Taryn’s arm. “This would have happened no matter who you were, because Silver has been making decisions without us again, and that’s something we managed to stop him from doing until recently. Now the House has opened he seems to have changed back to his old self.”
Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.
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