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I made it back to my apartment building, I paid the cab-man, who drove off and turned around to walk towards the house. James was sitting behind his desk in his small security house. He was our security man in the neighborhood.

"Hi, James." I greeted him.

"Ms. Garrido." He called out and I stopped walking and turned.

"You have a gift from someone. It's up here." He yelled at the other hand, and I gave him a quizzical look. I approached him with curiosity and when I stood there waiting, James passed over a rose that had a tag tied to the stem with a scarlet ribbon.

"The tag has the initials A.S. in fancy script," I said out loud and quirked an eyebrow at James. I was pretty sure I knew who it was.

"Did you see who dropped this off?" I asked him and he smiled nervously.

"No, Ms Garrido. I went to the toilet and when I came out, it was there with a note to give to Kit-Kat, Garrido. At first, I didn't know who answered the name, but I thought for a moment and remembered Kathleen Gar
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