Cassandra could be entirely comfortable with herself, she was fine with the things she liked and who she was now that she was at Halcyon. But the years before that represented one long string of insecurity. She tried to move past it and for the most part she was successful... what she hadn't been prepared for though was the sudden onslaught of what seeing Jack again did to her. Cassandra's mouth shut with a nearly audible sound. "I-" she started and failed. "I know he did. There's... I know there's no real excuse for that." She took in a deep breath reminding herself of the truth of that statement.
The vehemence behind Max's words surprised Cassandra. There wasn't a doubt in her that he meant exactly what he said, that no matter what Jack might have thought to do, he wasn't going to take her anywhere. Whether he would be able to do that if push came to shove... wasn't what mattered in the moment. Not at all. Cassandra's eyes widened slightly as she stared up at him. "You... you won't let him will you," she repeated back slowly, letting the words soak into her. They wrapped right around her in a feeling of safety that logically she knew she should question more than she was capable of. It was the kind of safety she should have felt from her family all those years ago but had lost all too quickly.
Her lower lip tugged tightly between her teeth as she contemplated his words. "I... I think it just makes me angry." She finally admitted. "Angry that he could say all that to confuse me, that he knows I don't... that I don't want to hate or feel that suspicion towards people and it makes me angry that I let his words have that effect on me." She finally admitted with a slight drop of her chin. "I just... It doesn't matter." That Cassandra could finally see through all the confusion that his words created in her mind. It didn't change any of what had happened before.
She was silent for a moment as she felt the swipe of his finger over her cheek. The touch was always cherished. She'd feared that as unstable as she was at the moment that, she wouldn't be able to control anything but she was surprisingly successful. "Jack. That's all I ever knew him by. He's... in the library." Cassandra finally divulged the information that he'd been seeking from the start. "Just..." Cassandra started and stopped before snaking her arms around his middle and tightening her hold on his form. "Thank you Max." She said simply. "For as many times as I wished that I was stronger to stop it all I wished that there was someone who could help me just the same."
Her arms didn't release him yet, "do you have to go?"