His name was Richard Grantham, CEO of a tech company worth half a billion dollars. He’d gone missing for nearly two hours before emergency crews located him.

“Lucky to be alive,” the reporter said. “Sources say an unidentified girl may have saved his life.”

Tasha’s heart leapt.

She stared at the screen, barely breathing.

Her mother looked up from the sink. “What’s got you frozen like that, baby?”

Tasha just smiled. “Nothing, Mama.”

But inside, something flickered. A quiet pride. A spark.

Three days later, it came.

A man in a suit knocked on their apartment door. Tasha’s mother frowned, drying her hands.

“Can I help you?”