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Whichover the man

She was still thinking about Jude when she said hi to their apart doorman, while she rode the elevator up to their floor, when she stepped out of the elevator and made her way down the corridor She’d not taken but a few steps when she noticed the large, brightly wrapped box with a huge gold bow propped against her apartment door

A present?

She didn’t have to wonder from who, because there could only be one person who’d do such a thing

CHAPTER SEVEN

SARAH DIDN’T WANT to be excited, but was as she bent and pulled the card with her name on it off the box

Heart pounding, goofy s herself not to read tooJude did, she ripped into the envelope

I planned to give you this in person, but got called to the fire hall Can’t wait to see you in this tolasses so I can see your lovely face

Her heart ht at his last line Because of the past, she told herself

Besides, if theto place the order for cockroaches

Not really She’d put whatever skimpy piece of silk and lace the box held on and o with it, too

But even if the size of the box hadn’t already suggested otherwise, when she picked up the box, she knehatever was inside was more than underwear

Feeling like a kid in anticipation of Christ to remind herself there wasn’t really a Santa Claus and she shouldn’t be so keyed up, she unlocked her door, stepped inside, stripped off her winter layers, then carried the box to her coffee table

Rather than open it, she sat on her sofa and stared at the package as if it ht contain a rattlesnake

Or the cure to cancer