The day they both get genuinely angry at each other is the day something explodes. For now, though, things are simmering down. "I don't take crap from anyone. Even if I'm married to them." She gives him a little half-cocked grin. "You're a force to be reckoned with, Jamison, but I'm my own person and I'm not about to lose any of that."

In truth, it's a sentiment that she's harbored for far longer than she's known him; she's had to fight hard to follow her dreams.