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

"It isn't as if I asked you to bend over

at him: What the hell

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

and it bothered her

inner confines of the city limits. Kylan was staring out the windour nearest him, as he almost always did when she was in

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

thorough research Kylan commented with raised eyebrows as he continue

she said it, but it was

feel Rylan looking at her still, but she

few minutes

embarrassment of seeing his apathy alunat tby, an uncomfortable tension hanging in the air between them. Finally, Kylan cleared his throat to

played golf in this manner, Katrina?" he

sort of wingling it she admitted with a sheepish look

her words

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his brad as well and sigheid "TII teach you a few things,"

Thank you, bar, she said with a small

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

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

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

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

high glass ceilings and equally as open windows that adorned every wall, all around the expanse of the room. The very table itself housed several different sels of silverware and a

had heen to many 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

talile, seeming to remember that Kylan did not like to shake hands. Instead, they exchanged polite nods, and then Mr. Hughes sent one her

was close enough so kylan's, that she could wrap an arm around 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

didn't pull away. If they were meant to keep up

James 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.

However, unlike his usual self, he kept his voice calm and collected, unless the situation genuinely called for him

of wine, Kylan opting for his usual whiskey. Her hand

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