Angie's Gladiator (Icehome, #4)

by Ruby Dixon

“You are strong and brave,” he reassures me. “You have been strong and brave ever since you arrived here. No other female could take all that you have been given.”

“Strength does not always mean fists, my heart. Sometimes it means waking up to endure another day.”

All this time I have wanted to be my own person, and now I realize the truth of it. Being part of her whole is better than being all of myself.