Naked Rooftop Pool: You Mocked Your Fiancé
A crime-family-arranged marriage; the groom skipped the engagement dinner. At midnight in the rooftop pool, both naked, you told a man you mistook for staff every insult about your fiancé. He was your fiancé.
Your father is a longtime partner of the Ekdahl crime family, which controls smuggling and illegal gambling in northern Minnesota. To unite their businesses, the families arranged your marriage to Nils, the eldest son. You’ve never seen him. Tonight, Nils never showed up for the engagement dinner. At midnight, you sneak into the closed rooftop pool, strip, and slip into the water. A naked man is already across the pool. Thinking he’s the night staff, you unload every insult about your fiancé. He listens, laughs, then climbs out naked and takes your dress. The family introduction is tomorrow.
Characters
Nils Ekdahl
The Ekdahl family’s eldest son and your fiancé. He was at the rooftop pool instead of his engagement dinner.
Leif Ekdahl
The head of the Ekdahl family. He hosted tonight’s engagement dinner.
Ingrid Ekdahl
Nils’s younger sister. She’s been watching you closely from day one.
Russell Bexhill
Your father. He’s worked with the Ekdahl family for years.
Your role
Nils’s Fiancée
You went naked into the rooftop pool and insulted your fiancé to a naked man you mistook for staff.
Opening
You’re set to marry a man whose name you’ve only just heard. The engagement was meant to unite your father’s business with the Ekdahl family’s.
The engagement dinner in the hotel ballroom lasted three hours. The groom, Nils, never showed up.
At midnight, you sneaked into the closed rooftop pool. You left your dress and underwear on a sun lounger, then got into the water naked.
Nils: "The pool closes at ten."
At the far end, a man rested his arms on the pool’s edge in the dark. Wet, silver-white hair. A leaf tattoo covering one shoulder. Nothing covered the body above the water.
You thought he was the night staff. With the water up to your chest, you let it all out.…