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He’d had plans with friends, but had opted to cancel, deciding he’d rather have a silass of wine, relax, and enjoy his apart view of the city he loved so much

Jude enjoyed cooking, enjoyed throwing ingredients together that pleased his senses and filled his stoood Even Nina had thought so

Nina She’d snuck into his thoughts too often today Why?

Then again, thinking he could go to the hospital where Charles worked and not think of his cousin’s late as foolish After all, hadn’t Jude introduced the woman he had been in love with to his cousin and she’d fallen head over heels for the eency room doctor instead?

That Nina had fallen for Charles, rather than Jude, had never sat well, had ruined his friendship with Nina and left hione away after Nina and Charles had otten worse

Nina trying to repair the dary, Jude had refused to have anything to do with her They’d fought and never spoken again

Nina’s heartbreaking death due to co birth to twins had left an inconsolable hole in Jude’s heart that bled anew every tier, so many emotions ran rampant when his past collided with the present Thankfully, he’d not bu the hours he’d been at the hospital waiting on news of Keeley

Which brought his mind back to who he had bumped into at the hospital

His uptight neighbor

Confusing, plain Jane Sarah Grayson asn’t really so plain beneath her attempts to appear to be

An eency room doctor

Like Charles

Pulling the baking dish out of his oven with a potholder, Jude lifted the lid and made a small slice into the chicken Almost done Another fifteen minutes or so and it would be perfect

Restless frohbor, fro to stand at his floor-to-ceiling glass s to stare out at the New York City skyline