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He’d noticed her buried beneath her coat, scarf, and hat The linted when he’d looked at hers thatassured that

He’d inized her at the hospital Sans hat, coat, and scarf, even

Sure, he had seen her in the apartment hallway a few ti, and when he had looked, he’d noticed

Despite all the reasons he shouldn’t have—like that she’d been hidden beneath a dozen, figurative and literal, layers and that he’d been with another woman

“You’re a complicated man, Jude”

He laughed “Me? Complicated? I’m the least complicated Davenport you’ll ever meet”

She shook her head “That’s not true You have so many aspects to how you really are you make my head spin”

That hy she felt a little dizzy when looking at hi of him There couldn’t be any other reason

“What you see is what you get,” he pointed out, as if that somehow made his claim true

She knew better

“Every ti different”

That seeue him “In ay?”

“For instance, right now, you are the very opposite from the man who stayed at the hospital with Keeley”

With a look of disappointment, he shook his head in denial “I’m exactly the same man who stayed with Keeley What’s ‘very opposite’ is what’s on the outside”

“Explain,” she said, hoping he would because she knew his doing so would give her insight he rarely revealed