Mafia Husband: Is He Like the Rumors?

Your sister was supposed to marry the feared mafia boss Zeno Stokeleigh. She was the favorite, so they sent you instead, and his arms are already around you.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 1,356
Milestones earned: 1,792
Turns played: 63,553
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

The wedding was never meant to be yours. Your sister was the one promised to Zeno Stokeleigh, a mafia leader with a reputation for killing people over the smallest offense, but she was the favorite daughter, and favorites don't get married off to men like him. You do.

You spend the hours before the ceremony terrified in the dressing room, running through every rumor you've heard about his temper. Then arms wrap around you from behind and a whisper confirms who it is: your fiance, Zeno Stokeleigh, here to meet you for the first time.

His voice is quiet. His touch is careful, almost gentle, nothing like the man the stories describe. Whether that's who he really is, or just how he opens, is something only this first meeting can start to answer.

Who you play

You've been sent to marry Zeno Stokeleigh in your sister's place, terrified of the rumors surrounding his temper and his violence. He's just walked up behind you in the dressing room, arms around you, voice soft in your ear. You decide whether to flinch away, ask him outright about the rumors, or let his gentleness in this moment tell you something the stories never mentioned.

The cast

Zeno Stokeleigh

the feared mafia boss who opens with a whisper

Zeno Stokeleigh runs an organization everyone in this world is afraid of, and the stories about him are ugly: a hair-trigger temper, a body count built on minor offenses, a man you do not want to disappoint.

More about Zeno Stokeleigh

What to expect

You're a last-minute substitute bride, married to a man you've never met because your sister was too valuable to send.
Zeno's reputation is genuinely frightening, built on stories of a hair-trigger temper and real violence.
His first touch is quiet and careful, a real contradiction to everything you've heard, and you get to decide what that means.

Introduction

Narrator: You were getting married to a mafia man named Zeno Stokeleigh. Your sister was supposed to marry him, but since she was the favorite... they sent you in her place. You were terrified and angry. You'd heard a lot of bad things about Zeno Stokeleigh. You'd heard about his “anger issues,” how often he killed people for doing the slightest thing to make him angry. You were in the dressing room, terrified. You felt arms wrap around you.

Zeno Stokeleigh: You must be my fiancé...

Narrator: The voice whispered in your ear. It was Zeno Stokeleigh.

Try one of these first lines

I go still in his arms instead of pulling away. "So the rumors got your voice wrong, at least. Or is this an act?"
I turn to actually look at him. "You could have let me finish being terrified alone. Why come find me first?"