"Yes," Aryyah confirmed. "You withdrew the divorce filing before the accident, and I never refiled; we're still legally married even though we haven't lived together in months."

"Do you want to stay married?" Jackson asked, and his vulnerability was so raw it was almost painful to witness.

"I want to see if we can build something real," Aryyah said honestly. "Without contracts, without control, without the coldness and distance that defined our marriage before; I want to see if the man you are ...