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To tell Charles he was sorry he’d shut him out of his life despite multiple efforts on Charles’s part to heal whatever rift that had come between them

Despite Nina’s efforts to heal the rift

Of course, Charles had never understood Jude’s distancing himself How could he have when he’d never kno Jude had felt about Nina?

Yeah, he needed to apologize to his cousin

And to Sarah

He needed to tell Sarah how he felt about her

Sarah Beautiful, sweet Sarah

She ht think their conversation was over, but he knew better, had known better when he’d left her apartht up to her, would prove to her that he was a better man than the one he’d shown her at Charles and Grace’s party

He was a better man

He was a

The right thing wasn’t leaving a trapped elderly couple to burn alive

Jude stopped, waited to make sure his partner made it to the stairwell, then saluted his friend, who had realized Jude wasn’t i all kinds of foul words

Jude turned back to get the Millers

A risky, foolishYou stayed with your partner for the safety of both of you

His partner would do the right thing, too, would get Betty Kingston down those stairs and to safety Roger would be all right If all went as planned, Jude would have the Millers busted free and would be down those stairs with the back for him