The Man Outside

THE DISCOVERY

~SIENNA POV~

The scream woke me up.

It was not mine. But Dario's.

I jolted upright from where I had passed out on the floor, still fully dressed, my neck stiff from sleeping against the wall. My heart was already racing before my brain even caught up.

"Mama! MAMA!"

He was standing in his makeshift bed—the dresser drawer lined with blankets—tears streaming down his face, his little ha