Chapter Title: (115) A Rich Housewife Needing A Maintenance Boy-01

Bob Hoover, has been many things to Marley. Her assailant, her prison warden, her boss, and her worst nightmare. Never a father. Growing up, she has always seen him as everything but. At some point — after one too many nights of cleaning, cooking, working long hours, taking cold showers and doing his shopping for him — she stopped being anything but afraid of him. She gave up on him. Or so she thought. There's a saying: you don't know what you have until it's gone. Marley is realizing in the current moment that statement is all too accurate of one. As soon as the words left Detective Bryan's mouth — as soon as he told her that her father was in critical care and may not survive the night — everything else went out the window. The years of pain and cruelty and darkness. Because Bob Hoover is still her father. He is the only family she has left, and Marley would pathetically grieve his absence regardless. She wasn't sure of what happened next, because her panic attack was so bad that it