“We didn’t want to scare you,” Vanessa said. “Not yesterday. Not after everything. So I called my brother. David. He’s the one who’s been handling everything. And he drove down from Kansas City last night.”
David Reyes set down his coffee cup.
“Mrs. Whitfield,” he said. “There’s one more thing in the envelope.”
He reached across the table. He pulled out the last few pages. He laid them in front of me.
It was a bank statement. On fancy letterhead. Missouri Community Trust.
At the top, it said: The Good Samaritan Fund — For the Family of the Unidentified Rescuers, I-70, October 14.
I looked at the number at the bottom.
I looked again.
Current Balance: $418,632.17
I couldn’t speak.
“After the accident,” David said quietly, “the story went everywhere. Newspapers. TV. It went viral online. A couple who ran into a burning car to save a stranger’s child. And died doing it. And nobody knew their names.”
