Page 53 of First Date: Divorce
Were in love.
Kendra should be in Hollywood.She’d made it all so …real.
On the video, they turned and faced the “congregation,” their smiles a little awkward, a little shy.That made sense.A newly married couple might feel that way.
On the screen, Eric clasped her hand, looking at her.She looked back.
The smiles changed.Became more comfortable.That was okay, too.
The smiles changed more.Bigger, happier.
She’d gotten through the kissing, but this…
That smile…
She wanted to stand up, turn her back to the screen, put herself between it and the others.
She didn’t.
She said, “Fantastic job, Kendra.That’s sure to help sell our cover story to the people at Marriage-Save.”
“There’s still the reception to watch,” Kendra said.
She was spared the reception — well, no, spared wasn’t the right word, because that made too much of it.Watching the reception video didn’t happen because Cully and Tal arrived, coming in the back way.
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Cully brought their new phones, handing them over to Kendra to load what she’d already arranged, while he took their personal phones for the duration.
K.D.finished flipping through the courtship photos on her Marriage-Save phone … at the same time Cully and Tal did a final check over her shoulder for any that might give away her real identity or job.
They’d done the same with Eric’s phone, though Kendra said she’d mixed up the photos, so they didn’t have all the same ones.“More natural,” she’d said.
Kendra had done a great job of framing shots to make it look like she and Eric were at different places, across different times.
Then the wedding photos.
One caught Eric and her in mid-kiss.
Definitely not the first kiss.
She should feel good about this.It looked real.It would support their cover at Marriage-Save.
She went through the wedding photos fast.After all, she didn’t need to familiarize herself with those.Then she came to what would pass as their happily married phase.Blessedly short, thanks to the history they’d put together.
Except she paused at one photo.
Eric leaned across her, his fork extended toward the remnants of her sample of Ellyn’s chocolate cake.Kendra had cropped out the other samples, so it appeared as a moment at a meal.A moment between a couple happy with life and each other.
Ideal for their charade.
She resumed scrolling, finishing quickly.
“Impressive, Kendra.”Cully straightened from his over-her shoulder position.
“If you’re interested, I might have work for you,” Tal said.
“Depends on the work.”
