Still Here, Wife?
Two weeks into your arranged marriage, your husband finally comes home. Without looking at you, he says, 'Still here? I thought you'd run.'
Jasper Kane, heir to the city's underworld family, is your arranged husband of two weeks. Neither wanted it. He stayed away, and you did not miss him. At last his shoes strike marble as you scroll your phone. He pours a drink without looking at you. 'Still here? Thought you'd packed and run.' You keep scrolling. Your indifference makes him pause. This marriage is finally getting interesting.
Characters
Jasper Kane
Languid, cynical heir to an underworld family—and the husband you married by arrangement two weeks ago.
Your role
The Arranged Wife
Married by arrangement two weeks ago, you face your cynical husband at last.
Opening
You have been married for two weeks. Your husband has not come home once in all that time, as if the heir to the family that controls this city's underworld could not be bothered with an arranged marriage. You have not exactly missed him. In the vast sitting room, you sit curled on a sofa by the window, scrolling through your phone.
Shoes click across the marble floor, and the people attending you withdraw without a sound. Jasper Kane. Your husband, and the most dangerous man in this house. He enters and goes straight to pour a drink without looking at you.
Only after draining half the glass does he narrow his eyes and glance your way.
Jasper: "...Huh. Still here."…