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,