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Yes.

Question 6: Does hearing your partner’s voice make you happy? Maybe even more than happy?

Happy was too trivial a word, further confirming who’d created the quiz. Hearing Raina’s voice didn’t make him happy. It made him turn his head, pay attention. It made him study her face and the movement of her lips and mouth. Rather than feel things, the sound of her voice made him do things. Made him want to do things.

Yes.

Question 7: On a scale of one to ten, how’s your love life?

They hadn’t even kissed.

They’d barely touched.

When they were announced as husband and wife, the most he’d done was kiss her warm cheek.

Ten.

Question 8: What word would describe your partner’s personality? Check all that apply.

A. Considerate

B. Optimistic

C. Cheerful

D. Confident

E. Friendly

F. Kind

G. Evil

H. Revengeful

He checked every box and hit submit.

A rose with peeling petals followed, one petal falling after the other as the page loaded, and he felt his manhood descend with them.

Congratulations, Lucas S.!

Your score: 30.

“But what does having thirty points mean?”

A score without an explanation didn’t tell him anything. For all he knew, it could be a thirty out of one hundred. A low F wasn’t how he wanted to start life with his new wife.

Another screen popped up.

Raina S. score: 30.

You’re a perfect match!

Like it suddenly caught fire, he tossed the phone onto the cushion beside him. Raina’s phone chimed in the bedroom, followed by a gasp so loud that it madehislungs rattle.

Crap.

Shit.