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Instead, he frowned and strained to figure out what the noise was that he could barely make out

Then it hit him

A s off in the unit next to his

Sarah’s apartment

CHAPTER FOUR

HOW COULD AN intelligent woman who could save lives not cook a si it?

Okay, Sarah didn’t usually burn her food, but this wasn’t the first ti so to the point that her alarm went crazy

How did she get the thing to go off?

Pulling the plug on the toaster oven, she closed the door, rushed to where the alary sleeve of her way oversized sweatshirt flopped as she fanned a dishtowel back and forth, hoping it would clear the s up

“Stop that,” she ordered the shrill bell, dancing around beneath it as she waved the toith gusto and thought about howAlmost as much as she detested this horrible alarm “Stop Stop Stop”

Was she going to have to call Maintenance? Or maybe they just automatically showed up when one of the apartment’s smoke alarms went off?

A loud knock pounded at her apartment door

Well, that answered that Maintenance had just shown up

Which was a good thing since her fanning wasn’t working

Only when, flustered, she flung her front door open, Maintenance wasn’t who stood there