Serenity felt as if she was being pressured into marrying Jackson.

"To tell you the truth..." she began, "I don't think we're that different from a married couple right now."

She thought of how they had been living together for a while now and how they had even been sleeping together every night. The only difference between them and an actual married couple was nothing but a marriage certificate—a mere piece of paper.

"There's a world of difference!" he murmured in a husky voice. "Right now, everyone regards you as Ms. Lewis, not Mrs. Valor. But I want you to be completely mine, and I want to be completely yours!"

This only made Serenity feel like Jackson was giving too much weight to that mere piece of paper, so she blurted out, "But married couples get divorced all the time, you know."

In the next instant, Jackson's expression changed dramatically. His deep dark eyes became even more unfathomable now.

"So you're saying that even if we do get married, we'll get divorced one day,