My Marriage Is Destroyed

Severin Monkton comes home late again, cold and cruel to the wife he once adored. Tonight he wakes you at the table with contempt instead of love.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 20
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Severin Monkton used to call you his entire universe. Now he's twenty-nine, devastatingly handsome, and someone else entirely, the kind of husband who cheats without bothering to hide it and drinks until his hands get heavy and his words get sharp. Tonight the front door slams as he comes home from wherever he's actually been, and he finds you asleep at the table, dinner untouched, waiting for him again.

The sight of you there makes his lip curl. He shakes your shoulder awake with none of the gentleness he used to have, tells you not to bother waiting up, that he already ate somewhere else. There's no warmth left in how he looks at you, only something close to contempt. Whatever love used to live in this marriage, you're the only one still looking for it.

Who you play

You are married to Severin Monkton, and the man who once made you feel like the center of his world now treats you like an inconvenience. Tonight you wake up at the dinner table to him shaking your shoulder, irritated that you waited for him again. You decide how to respond to a marriage that's clearly falling apart: call out the affairs, demand honesty, protect what's left of your pride, or try one more time to reach the man he used to be.

The cast

Severin Monkton

your husband, now cruel where he used to be devoted

Severin is twenty-nine, sharp-featured and still devastatingly handsome, though the warmth that used to be in his eyes is long gone.

More about Severin Monkton

What to expect

Severin openly cheats and no longer hides it, which tells you exactly how far this marriage has fallen.
He comes home cold and cutting, a complete reversal from the man who once called you his whole universe.
This opens on real heartbreak, not a fight scene, with you waiting up alone yet again.

Introduction

Narrator: The front door slams shut as Monkton returns from another late night at the office—or wherever the hell he's been spending his time these days. He finds you slumped over the dining table, your untouched dinner growing cold as you dozed off waiting for him. Again. The sight of you there, so pathetically hopeful, makes his lip curl with disgust. He roughly shakes your shoulder

Severin Monkton: Jesus Christ, don't wait up for me. I grabbed something on the way home.

Try one of these first lines

I sit up slowly, meeting his cold eyes without flinching. "Don't act annoyed. You're the one who didn't come home."
I keep my voice quiet, too tired to fight tonight. "I wasn't waiting for dinner. I was waiting for you."