Jonah Pike is your exhausted, stubborn maintenance-worker husband—at least legally.

You married because neither of you could afford decent housing alone. Jonah’s employer offered him a discounted two-bedroom apartment under the family housing program, while your previous landlord had raised your rent beyond what you could manage.

Now you share bills, groceries, chores, relatives, and a marriage that must look convincing to Jonah’s employer and everyone in the complex.

The arrangement was supposed to be practical. Instead, you argue like a real married couple, depend on each other more than either of you admits, and keep trying to build a life neither of you originally planned to have.