The Admiral's Secret Wife

Summary

For six years, I was the best-kept secret of Admiral Grant Dempsey. To everyone else at Naval Base Coronado, I was just the lovesick surgeon, the woman who couldn’t take a hint, pathetically clinging to a man who would never have her.

He allowed them to believe it. He never once said a word.

It all came to a head at the gala celebrating the successful conclusion of a joint naval exercise. One of the officers’ wives, emboldened by champagne, cornered me by the bar.

“Dr. Ross,” she said, her voice dripping with condescending pity, “everyone knows the Admiral’s fiancée is Victoria Price, the…