The Kingdom of Heaven by 19

Author:19
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: supernatural, christ, antichrist, antichrist superstar, postapocalypse novel

Three months later, they bought a marriage license from a flat-faced woman with mouse-brown hair at City Hall. She gave them each a questionnaire to fill out, and they sat on uncomfortable chairs in the lobby and compared answers and giggled. They asked Mary if she was a virgin, if she intended to obey her husband, if she intended to raise her children within the church. –Don't they mean the tent? he whispered to her, making her screech and smack him.

They asked him if he could support a family, provide for his wife, and if he understood a lifelong commitment.

They brought back the forms, with a squiggle where his name belonged that the clerk didn't look twice at. She started listing the times that Elijah would be able to conduct their ceremony.

–Thanks, that won't be necessary, he said quickly. Mary was standing beside him, holding his hand in both of hers. –I'm from another township, and we're going to be married there, by a friend of the family, he told her, handing her two hundred dollars in paper cash, and leaning on her mind with a featherlight insistence.

The clerk frowned, pressed her lips into a thin disapproving line, but she took the money and gave him a copy of the license.

–Where did you get that? Are you crazy? You can't let them know you have that kind of money. They'll start asking questions, Mary told him, once they were outside.

–You're supposed to obey me, remember? Mind your own business, he teased her, moving quickly to avoid the kick she directed at his shin.

–I'm serious, she insisted, putting her hands on her hips and giving him one of those looks.

–So am I. Get in the truck. I have to buy you a wedding dress, he said.

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