Riley POV
Even as he speaks to me, I hear the truth in his words, the pain beneath the surface. I can't even begin to imagine how terrible it must have been to see our mother killed right in front of his eyes. It must have been terrifying. I can almost picture it in my mind and I feel sick to my stomach. What fear must he have felt over the years as it became even more apparent what kind of a monster my father really was? If I had been in Damien's shoes, could I have said I wouldn't have done the same? He had done what he did to survive, it didn't necessarily make him an awful person. It didn't make him the nicest, but it put him in a different light than I had originally envisioned him as. He wasn't the monster I had always thought him to be. At one time, he had been just as innocent as
