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I follow Keir into what I believe is an office of some kind. I look around, but it gives nothing away. It’s impersonal. A desk and files are all it holds.
“Start talking, Keir. I want to help you, but I can’t do that if I don’t know the lengths of what’s going on. Why is that baby being sold to a new family when it clearly has a mother here who wants it?”
“All of these women have been picked up over the last several years. I don’t know the right time frame because I’ve only been here for three years. They’re here for a reason, Shay. They produce model babies. Healthy babies. Babies wealthy people buy. The young girls are often bought and used. I get them in here to piece them back together. They can be broken, but they must appear to be whole on the outside.”
“Do you know how fucked up that sounds?”
“You don’t need to preach to me. I know. But what am I meant to do? Leave them to die? Tell me! I’m doing what I know how! Saving lives!” he yells. “You don’t know the half of it, Shay. Now you’ll see why I’ve tried to keep you away from it all.”
“You’re saving their lives, but you’re still handing them a death sentence!” I cringe at my own words as the severity of the situation sinks in. “They might as well be dead without their babies and family. I know how it feels being away from your loved ones and it’s hell.”
“Don’t you think I know that death is probably best for them?” Keir balls up his fists at his side. “I’m one person. I don’t have an army to get me out of here.”
I know what he’s saying is the truth, but it’s just hard to comprehend. I’ve read and heard about stories like this, but I never once thought I’d find myself stuck in the middle of a real-life horror story. I must be one of the unluckiest people to walk this Earth; blown up, attacked, shot at, only to be captured by the fucking enemy and thrust into this hell hole.
“Will they want to sell me like that?”
Keir sniggers. “Hell, no. You’re a god in their eyes. You’re medically trained. You probably know more than I do being out in the field. They’ll leave you here to repair all their damage. You’ll make them more money healing their goods as opposed to being for sale yourself.”
“How can you be so blasé about it all?”
He breathes out a deep sigh. “I either go with it or I’m cast aside. I’m hoping that if I play the good little doctor, it will keep me alive until someone comes along and saves us all.”
I feel like a bitch for shouting at him. He’s living with the same conditions we all are. He’s just found a way to get by without it suffocating him.
“Are you ready to continue the tour?”
I shoot him a look from the corner of my eye and nod. Somehow, the confinement of the white room is more appealing to me now.
“Oh.” He turns back to me. “Whatever you see, you never step in the middle of it, because it’s only putting you in the firing line. You stand on the sidelines and ignore it. Got it? I don’t need to be patching you up any more than I already have.”
“Got it. Ignorance is bliss.”
Ignorance may be bliss for some, but for me, it’s like ripping my heart out. I’m meant to help people, not sit and watch their world be turned upside down.
Just think about getting out of here, Shay.
Life won’t always be like this.
“Fight, Shay.”
