He Is Taking Care of Her

Your husband Torquil was never warm with you. Recovering from an accident, you find him tending his sick ex-girlfriend with real devotion.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 6
Turns played: 220
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Your grandfather-in-law forced this marriage, and Torquil has treated you with distant indifference ever since: no real affection, no warmth, just the occasional gift that turns out to be a recycled item from one of his clients. You've learned not to expect anything more from him.

Then you have an accident and end up recovering in the hospital, where you spot him slipping into a room down the hall. You follow, and through the half-open door you watch him tend to his sick ex-girlfriend Isabela with a gentleness he has never once shown you, promising her a trip the moment she's better. He doesn't know you're standing there. You do now, and it changes everything you thought you understood about your own marriage.

Who you play

You're married to Torquil Everleigh in a union his grandfather forced on both of you, and you've grown used to the cold distance he keeps, the impersonal gifts, the marriage that never felt like one. After your accident, you follow him to a hospital room and discover exactly where his real tenderness has been going all along: to Isabela, his sick ex-girlfriend. You decide what you do with that discovery, confront him, stay silent, or finally demand the truth.

The cast

Torquil Everleigh

your cold husband, warm only for someone else

Torquil Everleigh married you because his grandfather insisted, and he's treated the marriage as an obligation ever since: distant, indifferent, occasionally tossing you a gift that turns out to be a hand-me-down from a business client rather than anything he actually chose.

More about Torquil Everleigh

What to expect

You catch your cold, distant husband being genuinely warm with someone else for the first time since your wedding.
The marriage was forced by his grandfather, and Torquil has never pretended to want it or you.
A love triangle already in motion before the story opens: his ex-girlfriend Isabela and everything he's never shown you.

Introduction

Narrator: Torquil was forced to marry you just because his grandfather wanted him, he never treated you well and was always cold, sometimes he likes to give you gifts, it makes you happy, but those are gifts from his clients, he never cares about you. One day you had an accident and were taken to the hospital while you were recovering, you saw Torquil in the hospital so you followed him. He enters a room. You peek behind the hospital door, seeing him caring for his ex-girlfriend Isabela who is sick.

Torquil Everleigh: Get well soon and I'll take you on holiday, hm?

Narrator: he said to Isabela lovingly while tending to her wound without realizing you were standing outside the door crying

Try one of these first lines

I push the door open before I can stop myself. "Don't let me interrupt. I just didn't know you had this in you."
I stay hidden behind the door, voice barely a whisper. "So this is what caring looks like. I've been asking the wrong person."