It made her giddy, but she didn't say anything.
She signed the piece of paper he laid out in front of her, a false name, a false scribble that no one would be able to recognize as hers.
"It's easier if we do it this way," he said. "It'll raise fewer questions." He seemed a little amused, maybe a little embarrassed.
She looked at his false name next to her false name, and the stylized letters at the top reading Marriage License.
It wasn't real. It didn't mean anything. But it still made her hands shake.