Chapter 22

Chapter

22

By the time an hour had come and gone, she was feeling slightly more grounded. That always seemed to happen, any time the allowed herself ni gei in the zone of iking à mainline task like answering encals.

She headed over to kylan's office, her tablet and phone in hand. She walked in and sat in her usual chair, waiting for him to

a phone

He was pacing, as he always did, and she glanced downs at the calenda

cher lap, adjusting the short hem of her skirt slightly.

She didn't notice when kylan edes the phone call, and she wasn't aware of him standing right next to her until she could smell the faint hin cologne walking off him, She looked up at him, finding that he was staring at her with an unreadalde espressant, aber as instal "We have a relatively easy slay, Sir, Che conference call in an hour, and then we need to head over male golf course for found Hughes, she informed him, deciding to keep her gaze hopefully as neutral as he was

"Let me look at your outfit, was all kylant's response,

She set the tablet and her phone down on the desk and stood up. Rylan motioned for her to move to the center of the roorn, much like he had the day he first brought up the contract to her. She listened and then wasted with larr hands awkwardly at lier sides. Kylanceled her a few ti

times, and the feeling of being back under this microscope of sorts was settling. "Am I unistactory, Sir?" she asked quietly. "Bend over." Kylan answered, his tone i

fat yet commanding, all the saune.

She glanced at him, her eyes widening in surprise. "Excise me?" she asked, trying to maintain the same careful tour she had adopted before.

Kylan didn't say anything only choosing to look at her expectantly. She could feel her Lace flushing while he walked to stand belinglber. "I said. Bend over." He put a hand on her back, pushing her forward gently, bun firmly.

She didn't have much choice but to listen as her body bent forward, Kylan staying behind her. "What Sir, this is highly inappropriate, she choked. out She could feel herself thishing furiously, and she could also feel Rylan's eyes on her

"That skirt is short as hell. I was making sure you would be decent, should you bend over at all this afternoon, Kylan explained, his tone all too casual, considering what he just asked her to do.

She stood back up, adjusting her skirt, and feeling entirely too exposed. "You could have gone about that in several different ways," she chastused, doing her best to steady her breathing

to bend over my desk or something

What the hell was

get ready for the conference call, she mumbled, sitting back in her chair, and watching as Kylan sat

looked exceptionally unphased by anything that just transpired, and it bothered her more than she cared to

Sir?" she asked Kylan, sitting in the back of the SUV while Oscar drove them outside the inner confines of the city limits. Kylan was staring out the windour nearest him, as he almost always did when she was in the car with him. "What can you tell me about Elorde Enterprises? Why should we defect from our current manufacturer,

just the previous quarter alone. They overtook even Walter Inc. in terms of sales. They don't outsource their supplies, which would make our costs ultimately lower, because we're not paying any import fees, she explained, her voice becoming more animated as she spoke. I believe Mr. Hughes would happily accept an eight percent share, considering we aren't nearly the only company he's looking to work with, she concluded

Kylan commented with raised eyebrows as

why she said it, but it was out there, and she couldn't

feel Rylan looking at

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in this manner, Katrina?"

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sigheid "TII teach you a few things," he responded

you, bar, she said with a small

up to the front doors of a large, white, craftsman style clubhouse. She noticed that it overlooked a pristinely kept, vibrantly green, eighteen hole golf course. A sea of trees surrounded the entirety of the course and clubhouse alike, providing the

and grabbed his forearm to stop him from leaving. "How do we act here?" she

a frown on his face, "Hold my hand, stay close to me. He alreaily thinks we're together, and it migla help us if we keep up pretenses around him, as well as every other possible rich asshole that might be hanging about," he told her, moving to step out of the

once. She should be glad to have something keeping her grounded, like Kylan's hand, but instead she just

the clubhouse, and she glanced back at Oscar, waving goodbye to him, just as she crossed the threshold of

around at the high glass ceilings and equally as open windows that adorned every wall, all around

years, but it was still a difficult

polite nods, and then Mr. Hughes sent one her way as well. She returned the gesture

his shoulders as casually as possible. He looked at her out of the corner of his eye but didn't move away from her. She took it a step further, deciding to reach a hand up into the bottom of his undercut, and seraich lus head

ten slightly, but again, he didn't pull away. If they were meant to keep up appearances, that was exactly

and Rylan made small talk at first, and she watched Kylan turn on what little charm he had, as he talked to the fellow CEO. It was always interesting to ser Kylan

moments like this: However, unlike his usual self, he kept his voice calm and collected, unless the situation genuinely called for him to react any differently, which

usual whiskey. Her hand continued to toy Jam listening to the conversation between the

accurate. Naturally, I assume you would want to crunch your nwn

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