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

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

What the hell

mumbled, sitting back

it bothered her more than she cared to let

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

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,

did thorough research Kylan commented with raised eyebrows as he continue to stare at

job to do research. She don't even know why she said it, but it

could feel Rylan looking at

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handle the embarrassment of seeing his apathy alunat tby, an uncomfortable tension hanging in the air between them.

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

1- Well, I was planning on just sort of wingling it she admitted

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be helpful. Thank you, bar, she said

insinutes Later, Oscar was pulling 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.

and grabbed his forearm

"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

her nerves flaring up at once. She should be glad to have something keeping her grounded, like Kylan's hand,

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

was brought to a table located in the middle of the establishment. She glanced around at the 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

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 came with this kind of

like to shake hands. Instead, they exchanged polite nods, and then Mr. Hughes sent one her way as well. She returned the gesture while Kylan pulled her chair and she sat down with a

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

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

losened as James and Rylan made small talk at first, and she watched Kylan turn on what little charm he had, as

calm and collected, unless the situation genuinely called for him to react any differently, which the current one che not by

waiter stopped by a moment later, and she ordered a glass of wine, Kylan opting for his usual whiskey. Her hand continued to toy Jam listening to the conversation between the

by thirteen percent if our calculations prove to be accurate. Naturally, I assume you would want to crunch your nwn numbers,