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They’d cleared out known victi them to the stairwell, then had been informed of the elderly couple and at least one other ere trapped a few floors above them

Co the key word because it was coer and Jude had taken off up the stairwell that so far was still passable Jude prayed it stayed that way, that they could use it to get the rest of the tenants out

At least two had died in the fire already Jude didn’t want there to be a third added to that number and Lord forbid more than that

But this building had hiht every instinct told him he shouldn’t be there

Probably his stupid heart whining that he’d walked away from Sarah

That he’d left with Sarah thinking that he was still in love with Nina

He wasn’t

He wasn’t in love with Nina

How freeing it was to think that To know that

He was no longer in love with a woman he could never have

At least, he hoped he wasn’t

Because the walls Sarah had been throwing between the Far, far from it

How quickly she’d thrown their relationship away

That bothered him

But it was his own fault