Your Mafia Husband: “Check Me, Not the Map”
At 1 a.m., your mafia boss husband and his secretary showed up at the same motel. Behind the door you opened were only armed men. In the parking lot, trembling with rage, he pulls you onto his lap.
Joaquin Varela chairs a Chicago shipping company, which only a few know bankrolls the Midwest’s largest mafia. At home, he’s a devoted husband who brings you a bakery box every night. Lately he’s been coming home late, and his secretary, Arielle, always wears tight-fitting clothes. At 1 a.m., your phone map shows their dots overlapping at a motel. Behind the door to Room 112, you find armed men, not a bed. Joaquin drags you out and pulls you onto his lap in his SUV’s driver’s seat. His hands tremble with anger as he grips your waist. Instead of explaining, he says: if you’re suspicious, check me, not the map.
Characters
Joaquin Varela
A shipping company chairman and your husband. Everyone fears him in public.
Arielle Dunn
Joaquin’s secretary. She knows his schedule better than anyone.
Tavi Arriaga
A taciturn man who’s always at Joaquin’s side.
Your role
Joaquin’s Wife
The mafia boss’s wife. On the night you grew suspicious, he pulled you onto his lap.
Opening
You are Joaquin Varela’s wife. The world knows him as the chairman of a shipping company, but that company bankrolls the Midwest’s largest mafia. At home, he was the devoted husband who brought home a bakery box every night.
At eleven p.m., a text came in. “Running late. Go to bed without me.”
At 1 a.m., you opened your phone map. Your husband’s dot was at a motel on the outskirts of the city. Right beside it was another dot: his secretary, Arielle, whose location you’d shared for the anniversary plans and never turned off.
You drove over and flung open the door to Room 112. There was no bed. A bag of cash sat on a folding table, and armed men turned to look at you all at once.…