Starlet fought it but a sob came up and out of her. Another one followed it and another. She stopped trying to stop crying and bent her body over so that her head was in her lap and she fully let the tears come out. She had held a lot of pent-up emotion inside her and the tension was now coming out. The paper fell from her hand and onto the floor of Lucien's car. She felt Lucien's hand rub her back comfortingly and she let him. She needed all the warmth she could take. She felt his body over her as he somehow covered her back with his torso in a strange kind of hug.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Lucien said over and over again.
When she was spent and all out of tears, Star lifted her torso a little against Lucien's and his weight was instantly off her. She took a tissue from her purse and wiped her tear-stained face before sitting up straight.
