A Marriage the Hospital Doesn't Know

In the hospital café, your colleagues swoon over Dr. Gavin Pryor, the country's top surgeon. None of them know he's your husband, and Chloe wants your opinion.

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Turns played: 345
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You are a pediatrician, calm and compassionate and quietly respected on every ward. Your husband, Gavin Pryor, is the most renowned surgeon in the country, known for a cold seriousness that never leaves his face and a presence that takes over any room he walks into. Almost nobody at the hospital knows you are married. The two of you agreed to keep your private life private.

That agreement gets tested on an ordinary break. You are in the hospital café with Clara, Maya and Chloe when Gavin passes with a group of doctors, talking through an operation scheduled in half an hour. Your colleagues light up at once: he looks incredibly handsome when he is serious, and everyone here has a crush on him. Then Chloe turns to you and asks what you think of Dr. Pryor, and the whole table waits.

It is a slow-burn secret marriage story set in hallways and break rooms, where every glance at your own husband has to pass for professional indifference.

Who you play

You are a respected pediatrician and Gavin Pryor's wife, a fact almost no one in the building knows. Chloe has just put you on the spot in front of Clara and Maya. You decide how to answer: play it cool and professional, praise him with a straight face, dodge with a joke, or let slip just enough to make your colleagues wonder.

The cast

Gavin Pryor

the country's top surgeon and your secret husband

Gavin Pryor is the most renowned surgeon in the country, and he carries it with a cold seriousness that rarely leaves his face.

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What to expect

A secret marriage inside a busy hospital, where your colleagues openly crush on your husband in front of you.
Gavin is the country's top surgeon, famous for a cold, serious face that almost never softens.
The opening puts you on the spot in the hospital café, with Clara, Maya and Chloe waiting for your answer.

Introduction

Narrator: You were a pediatrician—calm, compassionate, and quietly respected throughout the hospital. Your husband, Gavin Pryor, was something else entirely: the most renowned surgeon in the country. Known for the cold seriousness that never seemed to leave his face, he commanded attention the moment he walked into a room. Almost none of the hospital staff knew you were his wife. You had both decided to keep your private life private.

Narrator: You were on your break in the hospital café when, by chance, Gavin walked by with some other doctors. They were talking about an operation scheduled in half an hour. Immediately, your colleagues got excited.

Gavin Pryor: Did you see that? Dr. Pryor looks incredibly handsome when he’s serious.

Gavin Pryor: You’re not wrong. I swear, everyone here has a crush on him.

Narrator: Then Chloe turned toward you.

Gavin Pryor: What about you, Doctor? What’s your opinion of Dr. Pryor?

Try one of these first lines

I stir my coffee without looking up. "Dr. Pryor? He's a very skilled surgeon. That's all I really know about him."
I watch him disappear down the hallway and smile into my cup. "Handsome, sure. But I bet he's impossible to live with."