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

isn't as if I asked you to bend over my desk or something absurd like

What the hell was this day turning out to

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

just transpired, and it bothered her more than

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

now. Their profit last quarter increased exponentially from 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

commented with raised eyebrows

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

looking at her still,

few minutes went

She couldn't handle the embarrassment of seeing his apathy alunat tby, an uncomfortable tension hanging in the air between

played golf in this manner, Katrina?" he

I was planning on just sort of wingling it she admitted with

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Thank you, bar, she said

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

while Kylan opened the door. She reached a hand out and grabbed his forearm to stop him from leaving. "How do we act here?"

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

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

she glanced back at Oscar, waving goodbye to him,

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

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

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 thank

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

pull away. If they were meant to keep

what little charm he had, as he talked to the fellow CEO. It was always interesting to ser Kylan in an element such as this

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 the current

she ordered a glass of wine, Kylan opting for his usual

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