said. “And I know she should never have had to be that brave. But she was. She saved my life.”
Then Wade told them something Elsie hadn’t expected.
He had also known Samuel Warren.
Years ago, when Wade was sixteen and heading somewhere he shouldn’t have been, Samuel had trained him for two years.
“He told me once,” Wade said quietly, “that I wasn’t bad. I was just untrained. He said the difference mattered.”
Elsie looked at him differently then.
He wasn’t only a stranger she had saved.
He was
