Love it!
Birth wife or no birth wife this:
"I love *you*," he whispered. "And I don't give a tiny rat's tuckus if we ruined everything."
Is how Clark should have handled it even if he wasn't married to Lois yet.
Of coruse, thanks to Star and a legal loophole, he did get in under the wire. I gather that this:
Zara frowned. "When did you two get married?"
Clark told her.
"So you were married when we met?"
was important.
Bob