Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Katrina didn't deep well that night, and the couldn't quite place why. She only knew she was uncomfortable, Incomfortable, and completely on edge. The wound up, with nowhere to place any of the confusing feelings that overwhelmed her mind into the early hours of the morning

she finally drifted off into a dreamless, yet restless sleeps, only to be woken up by the unwelcome sound of her alarm blaring loudly felt like shit, really. Like she hadn't fallen asleep at all

When she checked the time, she realized she had only gotten maybe there hours of broken res. She polled over to her tar drop aimlessly onto her chest, as she stared up at her bedroom ceiling with heavy eyes. allowing her phone to

Yesterday had been a wladwind. The last week and a half had been, really. She barely knew how to operate around Kylan anymore, and that was before he acted the way he did last night. Now, she had no idea how she was meant to keep up appearances,

I had been made more than obvious to her, that Kylan only booked at her ava means to an end. A conveniently placed person in his life, and not

anything more then that.

That shouldn't bother her. It wasn't appropriate for her to be anything more, and Kylan was never going to be an open person, by any means. Katrina had been fine for three years, and she would continue to be line.

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She pulled herself out of bed and got ready for work, yawning periodically as she did. She made a mental note to make her coffee extra morning. She pulled on her jacket and heels, grabbed her briefcase, and left her apartment..

She glanced down at her phone, surprised to see that Kylan hadn't called her yet, Was it going to be another one of those days, where he was in amood! She wasn't sure she could handle that today. His everyday personality was already exhausting enough, and that was when she was well-rested

She reached the lobby of her building and pushed open the doors to another rainy, fall morning. She glanced down at her phone again, frowning as she contemplated calling Kylan henell.

"You're going to wander right into the road if you're not careful, a low voice said to her right.

She jumped on instinct and clutched her phone to her chest. "Christ!" she squealed without thinking.

Kylan stood far closer to her than she thought he would. He looked at her, his brow quirked in quiet amusement Annoyance? She wasn't sure yet. I'm sorry, Sir. I wasn't expecting to see her here," she explained breathlessly, looking up at him slightly. Her heels today were three inches in height, which meant she was two inches taller than her boss's shoulder while wearing them.

Kylan didn't say anything, but he stepped closer to her, his grey eyes as unreadable as ever. He reached a hand forward and she watched him with a slightly widened stare, while he gently skimmed his thumb under the skin of her left eye. "You look tired, be murmured.

She forced herself to swallow. He ran the same thumb down the expanse of her cheekbone before he cleared his throat and stepped back once. "Did you not sleep last night?" he asked quietly

Katrina shrugged, readjusting her briefcase in her hands. "I slept, but not well," she admitted just as softly.

hummed in reply. "We can stop and get coffee on the way, he suggested, reaching

for her to enter first. She felt 1 so harsh, only just

whiplash if she were honest. He had

of his nose. "Check the calendar on your phone." He motioned for her to get in the car,

hem of her skirt and set her briefcase on the floor in front of her. She unlocked her phone and looked at her calendar, just as Kylan instructed.

How did

phone and let it drop onto her

into the anyway. You only need to be next to me. He talked like it was no

door with a snap. "Relax, Katrina. I always

glove. He even wore silver cufflinks, which he only did on important days. Like today. Today was the tech summit, where

Sir. I'm hor. We've been preparing for this for mouths," she tried her

Chapter 21

She knew how to get in the proper headspace for public speaking if she needed to, but she was still thankful for the strive to the hotel. It was strange, sitting next to Kylan after he talked to her the way he did last night. She hail been reprimanded several tunes by him, but not quite in the way he had spoken

normally outside the car.

reminded herself she had been in public, and it was to keep up the proper she was crafting for

was it difficult for her to remember that? Why was it hard to accept the two different, but equally professional, relationships with her boss! The contract was no different than anything else she had done for Kylan before, even if it involved hand holding and

for her near-sleepless night, and instead she stared

at the next available coffee shop,"

sighed and shifted

I'll give them another try," Kylan

"Sir, you've never given a shop

a tight-lipped glare before he opened the door and moved to step out of the car. "Stay

watched him disappear into the shop,

more confused

not in over her head, Kate?" Oscar

can handle him.

around

d in his seat

not you I'm as

Rylan being able to handle me?"

areas of his life that not many others have been. All I will say is that I caution you to be mindful of how he treats you. I don't want him

careful eye on the front door of

"Oscar, Kylan doesn't have emotions. Not when it comes to me, anyway, she responded as if it