Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

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

his eyes. "It isn't as if I asked you to bend over my desk or something absurd like that he

him: What the hell was this day turning out

sitting back in her chair, and watching as Kylan sat in

looked exceptionally unphased by anything that just transpired, and it bothered her

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, and switch to them?"

sales. They don't outsource their supplies, which would make our costs ultimately lower, because we're not paying

Kylan commented with raised eyebrows as he continue to stare

assistant. Sir. It's my job to do research. She don't even know why she said it, but it was out there, and she couldn't take it back. She averted her own gaze, turning to state out

feel Rylan looking at her still, but she

minutes went

seeing his apathy alunat tby, an uncomfortable tension hanging in the air between them. Finally, Kylan

in this manner, Katrina?" he asked her, his

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helpful. Thank you, bar, she

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

out and grabbed his forearm to stop him from leaving. "How do

He alreaily thinks we're together, and it migla help us if we keep up pretenses around him, as well as every other

her and she accepted it, her nerves flaring up at once. She should be glad to have something keeping her grounded, like

back at Oscar, waving goodbye to

open

extravagant places with Kylan over the last few years, but it was still a difficult thing, knowing how to act around all the money and egos that

stood from the talile, seeming to remember that Kylan did not like to shake hands. Instead, they exchanged polite nods, and then Mr. Hughes

at her out of the corner of his eye but didn't move away from her. She took it a step further,

but again, he didn't pull away. If they were meant to keep up

first, and she watched Kylan turn on what little charm he had, as he talked to

woods, even during moments like this: However, unlike his usual self, he kept his voice calm and collected, unless the situation genuinely

glass of wine, Kylan opting for his usual whiskey.

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