“Marissa stepped in. She ran inside the building. She protected you. She brought you back. Your mother jumped out the window. Marissa was going to jump too. Giovanni stood and watched. The building collapsed, and she burned and died inside.” Father explained, looking away from me for a moment. “Sienna's father died before that. Giovanni slit his throat, made Marissa watch. She tried to fight, but he had already caused too much damage at the time. He was already doing his best, and Marissa had lost the will to live, even for her daughter. She knew that if she lived, he would not stop. He would just keep chasing, he would keep fighting. She made her choice. And even if we wanted to help, we really did not have another option. We would not have been able to do so.”
Carter slowly exhaled. “So
