All Chapters of They Asked for My Dads: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

The Cobbleys went down, and things finally chilled out.Yeah... temporary.The day Vivian Cobbley got hauled off to juvie, she sent me a message:[Riley Ray, when I get out, I'll make your whole family pay.]Cute.I told Dad One. He just smiled. "Let her try."Days blurred. Finals hit.I took first in the whole school, fifty points ahead of second.The day scores dropped, Dad Sixty-Seven and Dad Ninety-Four actually took off work to come."My daughter's insane!" Dad Sixty-Seven waved my report card, grinning.Dad Ninety-Four almost never smiled. He did now. "Riley, what do you want as a reward?"I thought it over. "I want to see the others."They traded a look. Silence."Riley, most of them are on assignment. It's not really—""I know." I cut in. "Then when can they come back?""Soon," Dad Ninety-Four said. "When the mission's done, they'll come back."I nodded. Didn't push.That night, I dreamed.All my dads were there, crammed around me, celebrating my eighteenth.

Dad Thirty-Two's injury wasn't serious. The blade didn't go deep. No organs hit.But the doctor said his body was wrecked from old injuries. He needed real rest.While he was in the hospital, I showed up every day."Riley." He lay there, holding my hand. "I'm fine. Don't worry."I nodded. Tears wouldn't stop."Silly girl." He wiped them away. "I'm tough. I'm not dying.""Don't say that." I covered his mouth.He smiled. "Alright. I won't."A week later, he was discharged.That day, all 107 of my dads showed up—completely clogging the hospital entrance.Dad Thirty-Two stood in the middle of them, grinning like a kid. "Alright, alright, break it up. I'm fine."Dad One clapped his shoulder. "Let's go home. We're throwing you a welcome-back dinner."That night—for the first time, all my dads were there.The apartment was way too small, so they took it downstairs—lined up tables out in the open.Dad Sixty-Seven ran the kitchen, throwing together a full spread.Dad Ninety-Four