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Chapter 44 - Jude Ashford
Jude POV
“Why are you here alone?” Pam asks as she sits in front of me. I’m in our usual booth. I raise my head from my hands and look directly into her eyes. “Oh dear, what is going on?” She asks as she moves from her chair and sits next to me and pulls me into an embrace. I bury my head on her shoulder as I allow myself to be vulnerable.
Pam has been more like a mother to me than my own mother. I always had the freedom to talk to her, to lay my heart out and allow her to see me being just me, no filters, no barriers. “Whatever it is, it will fix itself.” She says as I take a deep breath before pulling away from her and awkwardly cleaning the tears that rolled down my face.
Pam grabs some paper napkins and gives them to me and I quickly get myself sorted and back together. The beer in front of me has gone flat and warm and I haven’t even touched it. “I’ll bring you another one and give your friends a r
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