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For the rest of her shift and an hour into the next when she’d stayed to help catch up the overload of patients, she’d battled with the facts that Jude was a womanizer, an incurable flirt, heroic when he’d rushed into a burning building to save Keeley, and shen he’d waited at the hospital

Heroic Sweet Not adjectives she’d have ever thought she’d attach to the incorrigible toearing

Unable to stop herself, she glanced toward his closed apartme

nt door again Was he home?

Should she check on hiotten to him, that he’d rehydrated well?

Then again, heshe wanted was to see Jude Davenport with another woman twice in the same day

Especially after he’d so blatantly flirted with her

Especially after, despite her best atte

So, her neighbor had a few redee qualities

That didn’tto do with one another

They shouldn’t

Best thing she could do was forget today had even happened and stay far, far away from the man at all costs

Deter to do exactly that, Sarah quietly closed her apartment door

She was going to shower, eat whatever she could find and quickly prepare, sleep, and not think about her neighbor

After he’d left the hospital, Jude had returned to the fire hall, showered, filled out appropriate paperwork, then co to eat