
Wait.....do we know anything about the company that the ex is working at? Is it possible that ML had anything to do with him getting hired and somehow orchestrating their emotional separation (hence the parachute hire)?? Does the dad know more about his son's personal life than we realize??? Am I just sleep deprived and spouting nonsense???? (⊙…⊙ )
We still don't know yet why he's so obsessed with her right? Like it could be their paths crossed in the past?

Looked up Sisyphus and there's already so many references and potential foreshadowing in just the first 5 chapters.
He's the founder/king of Corinth and the one in Greek mythology who is punished to roll a boulder up a hill, only to have to fall back to the bottom, for all eternity. (leader of the settlement, lives at the top of the hill)
He angers Zeus and is sent to Tartarus (prison in underworld), where he outwits the god of death and chains him up instead. While Thanatos is chained, no one dies on earth. Eventually Ares frees him and death resumes. (people suddenly stopped dying, ML has something to do with it?)
When he eventually dies of old age, he schemes his way out of the underworld by appealing to Persephone, who allows him to return to Earth. (scars on neck, has already died?)
Only reference I could find of the 'Hounds' was from Anne Rice's The Passion of Cleopatra, which was incidentally also about the dead coming back to life.
Sooo GOOODD! ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ She's missing that "lady's maid, right hand woman" archetype character, so I hope she takes this woman with her!