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Kiernan’s.
How I felt about the idea of you and Bexley … Well, it started me seeing straight.
But that was Kiernan and Bexley … peppered with a dose of Pauline’s imagination.
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K.D.opened the bedroom door in response to a knock.
She had completely recovered from her strange unsteadiness yesterday.And any effect from Pauline’s words earlier this morning.
Time now to get down to business — her investigation and their divorce.
“Cully called,” Eric said.“Kendra’s finished editing.Apparently, she’s pretty pleased with the result.We’re supposed to get there as soon as we can.Cully’s already on his way by a roundabout route in case anybody notices.”
“She must have been up most of the night.”
“You’re probably right,” he said.
He looked as if he might have been up most of the night, too.Remembering his previous wedding night?Entertaining thoughts that last night wasn’t how he’d expected to spend his next wedding night?
Not something she needed to know.
Wouldn’t help their role-playing at all.
Besides, she knew from the mirror that she looked tired, too.Yesterday had been a long, wearing day.All that posing.All that pretending.
On the plus side, looking tired helped their charade.
Wouldn’t do to show up at Marriage-Save looking sleek and well-rested.
“Let’s go see what Kendra’s put together.”She grabbed a hooded sweater from a nearby chair.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
After yesterday’s hubbub, Far Hills Ranch’s main house seemed flat to K.D.
Didn’t matter.Work.This was work.No confusion at all about that.
She and Eric spent the drive going over details of their history again.Crisp, distant, professional.Absolutely appropriate.
They found Kendra and Daniel, Ellyn and Grif, Rebecca and Luke, and Cully and Jessa in the family room.
“Perfect timing,” Ellyn said.“Kendra’s ready.Stills first, then the video.”
Kendra had done a remarkable job.
It looked like a real wedding.And one with more than a handful of guests.
Even with all of them looking closely, only one still photo had to be removed from Kendra’s selections, because it caught Daniel in the background changing jackets.
Then came the video.
If K.D.didn’t know better, she’d think that couple on the screen who looked like Eric and her had actually gotten married.
Felt the connection those exchanged looks implied.
Experienced the passion that kiss promised.
