I nodded again and again. From that day on, I began to play mute. Later, when my foster father was away, I sneaked out of the neighborhood to go to the amusement park,
but I ran into a group of bad men. Seeing I was alone, they covered my mouth and tried to drag me into their van. A little girl rushed over, grabbed the leader's leg, and bit down hard. I hit the ground.
The girl pulled me up and ran, dragging me deep into an alley. she shoved me behind a pile of cardboard boxes and clamped a hand over my mouth the alley was pitch black the footsteps came closer she was shaking all over tears ran down her face without a sound damn rats when I get you I'll skin you
alive the leader kicked the boxes apart grinning gotcha then the brick wall behind him came down it collapsed on all three men in the flat an old crumbling wall. It saved our lives. Run! She dragged me to the alley mouth and screamed. Someone catch the bad men! Neighbors came out. Someone called the police. I woke up in a hospital. My foster father
sat by the bed. After that, I never saw the girl again. That pendant, I'd always thought I had lost it. It was with her the whole time. She was the girl who saved me. I came here to catch a traitor and fate handed me the one person I'd been looking for. My eyes burned.
Elena looked at me, confused. Ethan Brooks, what's wrong?