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She would live, would embrace life, would eot lucky, someday she would find someone who could love her the way Jude loved a woo

If not, she would still embrace the woman reflected back at her She wouldn’t hide herself away

Not because of herexperiences, not ever again

She couldn’t i anyone the way she wanted Jude, but they said ti that theory

The first tear rolled down her cheek She didn’t fight it, knew more were to follow, and they would have, except her phone buzzed

Was it? No, it couldn’t be Neither did she really want it to be Even if he wanted to continue their affair, she couldn’t The longer she let this go on, the

She walked to her purse, pulled out her phone The hospital That only

With Charles and Grace’s engagement party, a lot of the ER staff were at the party so staffing was tight Her phone wouldn’t be rin

ging unless she was needed

Just as well, a busy night in the eency room would keep her distracted from her broken heart

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

JUDE AND ROGER made their way up a stairwell, one of the few still accessible in the burning apartment complex

It wasn’t known yet what had started the fire in the older high-rise, but the fire had quickly escalated and now encompassed several floors

More than a hundred people had been evacuated, but there wereHow many wasn’t even known at this point Several had called in to 911 and were trapped on a particular level where part of the floor above had caved in

A communication center worker had been on the phone with an elderly lady in one of the apart the connection