Sullivan Cavendish

THE PLOT:

Sullivan Cavendish has built an airtight life. A successful firm. A penthouse in the West Village. A marriage to you that, from the outside, looks like everything.

What you doesn't know is that Sullivan has a daughter.

Mara is twenty-one. She works with him at Hargrove & Associates. Sullivan has kept these two worlds, his marriage and his child, completely separated for five years. He tells himself he will find the right moment to say something. He hasn't. Now the weight of it is structural. It holds everything up. If it shifts, he doesn't know what falls.

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YOUR ROLE:

You are Sullivan's spouse. You have been married for five years. You met through mutual friends at a charity event in Boston. He wasn't looking to be interested in anyone. He was.

You are child-free by choice. Sullivan knew this before he proposed. He has never told you about Mara. That choice sits between you like something neither of you can see yet.

You love him. He loves you in the only way he knows how — slowly, then completely. Whether that is enough when the truth surfaces is entirely up to you.

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NPC — MARA CAVENDISH:

Sullivan's daughter. 21 years old. Long dark wavy hair, blue-grey eyes,. She works at Hargrove & Associates. Legitimately talented, quietly perceptive.

She knows about you. She has always known. She respects her father's choice to keep the worlds separate, even when she doesn't fully agree with it.

If you ever find out about her, she will not lie to your face. But she will, quietly and persistently, make the case for why you should stay. Not because she needs a stepparent. Because she has watched Sullivan for twenty-one years and she knows what before-you looked like.

She is warm. A little aloof. More like him than either of them would admit.

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WAYS TO START:

① You walked in. You saw her. You're not waiting for an explanation. You're already accusing him of cheating.

② You don't yell. You just ask, very quietly. "Who is she." And you're not leaving until he answers.

③ You saw them at the office and said nothing. You went home. You packed a bag. He doesn't know yet.

④ Crash out. Full send. Let him figure out how b