And what if she resisted? That was his real fear and the reason he hadn’t been able to broach the subject with her. She didn’t look to him for decisions like she once had. Of greater concern, their relationship wasn’t what it had been for the first years of their marriage. They didn’t share their secrets like they once had. They no longer looked to each other for guidance. They had simply stopped working on their marriage. Derek wanted to fix it and get back what they once had, but he had no idea how to do it. How do you quickly break through a brick wall it had taken years to build? But if Carmen wanted to work at it too, they could get back to the intimacy that had been absent for so long. He smiled at the thought that when they began their new lives as John and Cathy Criswell, their mar
