Chapter Ten
Jude
“I saw you crying, and I, um, didn’t want to see you like that. Upset, you know what I mean?” Max said, and he bit his lower lip.
“I cry a lot, or at least recently I have been.” I sighed. “I hope I don’t come across as crazy, or, you know, unbalanced. It’s just, all this is new to me. Every man downstairs looks like he walked off the pages of an expensive fashion magazine, and I know I’m not much to look at.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you,” Max breathed. “I cry sometimes too. Life isn’t always fair, and you gotta let it all out. In fact, I think people who don’t cry are bizarre. Why hold all that pain inside?”
“All this is so new to me, this bursting into tears over stupid stuff all the time.” I murmured, then felt Max’s grip tightening around me.
“It’s a normal r
