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A dress, shoesshe could only guess as in the sined earlier?

She rong Very wrong

Inside was a velvet jewelry case

If she’d thought her hands had been shaky before, now they shook with full-blown tremors Earthquake-sized ones that probably had so out as he tried to track down the source

Holding her breath, she flipped open the box lid

Inside was a stunning pair of dangling, sparkling earrings that surely to goodness weren’t real diae

I won’t forget

Her eyes watered He wouldn’t He’d be there He’d bought her a dress, shoes, and earrings to wear She’d never been given clothes or jewelry by a man Not ever

The only jewelry she oas a gold chain with a quote pendant on it that her raduation and that she rarely took off

To thine own self be true

She pulled the chain fro-sleeved undershirt and fingered the charm

She wasn’t quite sure how to take Jude’s gifts

Obviously, frohter’s pay but on the deep Davenport dollars He probably had trust funds The gifts s he did for women

If so, no wonder they came to him in droves

What was she saying? If he gave theift except his time and body, women would come to Jude in droves