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“Iabout her injuries” Doubtful, but it sounded better than ad she didn’t want him forced to leave “Let him stay”

Which hen Jude turned that blue gaze to her, really noticing her for the first tinition immediately shone in his red-rimmed eyes

Sarah’s heart sla around in a pinball h her insides

The absolute difference in Jude’s appearance fro in his apart to this concerned, dirty, shter determined to stay by a child’s side ? Was it even possible there was hbor than met the eye?

Had recognition not lit in those a blue eyes of his she’d have sworn he must be a twin

Part of her felt she should say so that nition Instead, she returned her attention to where it belonged, on the unconscious girl

The weird flutter in her stoh speed

Indigestion, she told herself It’s just indigestion

Although she’d lived next to his apartment for several months, Jude hadn’t paid a lot of attention to his next-door neighbor

She kept to herself and barely acknowledged hi to her a couple of times when she’d first moved in

Honestly, until that , when he’d really looked at her for the first tiuessed her to be a lot older than the thirty or so she was

She dressed lanced his way, much less made eye contact before today

Not that she necessarily was dressed older now, more just dressed to hide whatever was beneath

She wore hospital-issue scrubs in a faded gray color that hung on her bodyher shapeless, plain, and, at first look, a bit drab

Interesting, because, as he’d noticed that reat eyes behind those hideous lasses She should seriously consider investing in contact lenses