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Good question Why had he agreed to so so idiotic?

“Because you wanted me to,” he said truthfully Maybe he’d also wanted to see Charles and Grace with his own eyes, because he hadn’t quite been able to believe Charles could love again after Nina Jude’s insides shookprecious and I wanted to give you soo to that party was the only thing I knew that you wanted from me”

Jude had felt guilty that he’d taken Sarah’s virginity, had felt obligated to give her soh another party as the odd man, woman, out

Great

If Sarah had kno the night would unfold, she’d have begged hio

Because now so much made sense

Jude wasn’t in love with her She wasn?

?t the one

He was in love with a ghost

Nina Davenport

Sarah remembered the woman, had always understood why Charles had so coracious, kind, intelligent, and had gloith happiness Sarah renancy, how she’d vocalized her happiness that she and Charles were going to be parents, how everyone at the hospital had mourned her unexpected death after the twins had been born How Charles had grieved his loss

Somewhere in the privacy of the playboy persona he exuded to the world, Jude had been grieving his loss, too

Because he’d been in love with Nina

Was still in love with her

Sarah could hear it in his voice, in the pain that was still so very raw