“Congratulations,” Jude echoed Eileen, peering hard down at the page again, still digesting all of it, both successes. And of all the articles to have his name on... “That’s – historic.”

Kieran was grinning, and Jude smiled back, happy for him. His smile grew a little tight, though, along with a tightening in his chest he was trying to ignore, only because – it had come out of nowhere, this news. “You didn’t say.”

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