Find out from her directly and try to salvage your marriage out of all this."I snarled, "How can I salvage my marriage when my wife is not being compl...tely honest with me? Hell, she didn't tell me about all of that stuff in her past, her late teen years. If she had, and if she had promised me that it was all just that--the past--I would still have married her and loved her completely."I actually could feel the tears of anger and hurt on my face as I continued. "And now, not only hasn't she been. “What?” I said, confused. “My book. Umm. . . I don’t know yet. It’s kind all about this Martian, well a human who was raised by Martians and he has different ways of looking at life and religion and sex. The story is cool, but I think I’m going to have to wait until the end to see what I think about it.”“So, are you like, into Star Trek and stuff?” she asked.“I don’t know about ‘into’, but sure, I like it.”“Because I am. Chuck always used to make fun of me about it, but I love it. I love the. "I didn't need to know that!"I laughed. "If I can handle the thought of you and Zev, you can cope with me and Alistair. Hey, at least we're going to be legitimate, one of these days..." Zev and I are as legitimate as we're likely to get." I know. Stupid. Why won't the Chantry let two men marry? No one else gets their knickers in a knot about it here, why should they?" Could we not discuss this now, while I'm, you know, naked?"I chuckled. "Fine. Look, I just wanted to see how you're doing. We. It was a slow Friday night down at the station house with only an odd drunk here or there, but there was a certain spark in the air like we were all waiting around for something to go wrong and for all hell to break loose and rain fire and brimstone right down on top of our heads. The last time I felt like that was just before the ammo dump exploded in Danang, Vietnam on a quiet Sunday morning when only the boom-boom girls were stirring.My favorite team of detectives, Mutt and Jeff, all fired.