Chapter 16

Chapter 16

The following morning, she woke up to several notifications on her phone, all from Kylan's Litter account. Her initial thought was that Kylan had deviated from the contract again and had gotten into yet another online argument Before die could overthink it any more than her mind was already doing. how many norifications Kylan hart

she opened the app.

fer eyes widened when she saw

Two hundred.

She clicked the first notification, surprised as hell to see a picture of her and Kylan from yesterday. It was from when her forehead rested against his, as she sheltered from the rain after dinner. Kylan had mentioned she had an audience, but it still caught

caught her off guard t topanost comments, pleased to see the response was still positive,

In see a picture like this one, circulating the internet. She

rrest the

She wondered if she would ever get used to seeing pictures of her and Kylan together, but if the response continued to be from mostly supportive people, she could deal with it

Pulling back her duvet, she yawned and stretched her arms over her head. She climbed out of bed, making it quickly, just av her phone rang in her hand.

She already knew it would be Kylan, and so she answered it while walking to her bathroom to take a shower.

"Good morning, Sir," she greeted her boss, placing the phone on speaker and setting it on the vanity. She stripped her shirt off, tossing it in the hamper at the corner of the room.

"Did you find a new coffee shop?" Kylan asked, his voice echoing annoyance already.

She sighed and shimmied out of her shorts and underwear. "I have your tea figured out, Sir" she responded, walking to her shower, and turning on the water. "I need to take a shower now. Did you have anything else you needed from me?"

She walked to her phone and stared down at Kylan's contact picture. It was the same one that was on his Ross Corp. bio. He wasn't smiling, but he didn't look entirely grumpy either. A far cry from what she knew he would look like in the time leading up to her date that night.

"Just don't fuck up the tea, Kylan grumbled into his phone.

She rolled her eyes down at his picture. "I have it covered. Sir. I'll see you soon. She hung up the phone and stepped into the shower.

later, she was properly put together and ready to head down and meet Oscar. She

was waiting for her outside, just as he always was. She smiled brightly at him when he opened the car door for

I gave you?" she asked him, sliding into

I did find the teapot you wanted. He glanced behind his shoulder to

asks me the name of the shop I got it from if it's a new one." She bit the inside of her cheek, now questioning

especially his tea. She couldn't get this

it's you. I have

smiled at her in the rearview mirror. "If anyone is capable of steeping the perfect cup of tea for som confidence in you, Kate," he told her

her anxiety fading a little bit. "What would I

Her

she could only hope that he was right about the damn cup

and Oscar explained where

supplies inside the br nervous for doing something

room. She headed upstairs.

in her office, and then she finally forced herself

o the b

and fish out the supplies

office. She needed to work quickly, and there was no room for

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she began the process, doing her best not to overthink each

of tea. She hadict added a drop of

ngle grain of

rain of sugar.

Kylai's tra usually came in, she had Oscar pick out

cup of tea and walked far too slowly down the hallway to Kylan's offer. She silently curved herself for wearing heels. balancing the tea precariously in her hands and holding onto hope that she wouldn't drop the damn cups te his

without losing a single bit of the liquid in the cup. She walked over in place, and then she sat in her chair and adjusted the hem of her

out his office window, his free hand in the pocket of his grey darks. She decided in open the calendar on her tablet, getting a head start on learning the schedule for the

call and came to sit down

shit?" he asked her in

this reaction. After all, Kylan didn't exactly devine from his usual routine very easily, if at all. "Black tea, sir, Steeped exactly the way you like it she

make this, Katrina?" He bent his head

sit up straighter in her chair. "I did. Sir, I would encourage you to try it before you throw it in the garbage." She crossed her left leg over her right one and watched him with a neutral expression faxed carefully on her face Kylan narrowed his eyes at her. "If this is shit, you'll have to remake it

three years, Sir. I've learned a thing or two about how you want it made," she said with false bravado. Truthfully, she was scared shitless. While she had learned about his likes and dislikes, it was different when she

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