“They Skipped My Wedding for a Vacation… Until They Learned the Truth About the Man I Married”

everyone I worked with would see it. It was a public statement: your life doesn’t matter enough to cancel a vacation.

Lieutenant Commander Chin stopped by my quarters that evening. She knocked twice, then let herself in when I didn’t answer fast enough.

“You doing okay, Ward?”

“I’m fine.”

She sat on the edge of my desk, arms crossed. “That’s not what I continue reading …