Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 42

Chapter 42

After her father insisted on paying for dinner, which Kylan was most ardently against, she bid her father farewell with the promise she would come to visit him on his boat tomorrow.

With one final parting hug, she watched as he began the walk back to his apartment that was not far from the Waterfront.

She sighed, folding her arms across her chest, and watching as he disappeared from view.

"Your father is likely the least insufferable man I've ever spoken with Kylan said from next to her.

She scoffed at him and shook her head, but she was grinning. "What did you say to him in French at the end? I only understood part of it," she asked him, turning her body so that she was facing him.

Kylan hummed, taking a deep breath and then reaching a hand out to brush the backs of his fingertips against her cheek. "Vous avez froid" came his murmured reply.

She shivered, but she wasn't certain if it was because of the cold this time. Tim not that cold, she protested quietly

kylan smiled, actually smiling at her. "No, I don't suppose you are. I don't think you have a cold bone in her body, Katrina Morgan," he whispered

Pping forward and wrapping his arms around her waist suddenly.

She was

know, Kylan. In the third grade, I stole a candy bar from the convenience store. I didn't even

his head at her, but

She

awful transgressions must you confess to, Kate!

Didn't do anything that might pull him out of the strange mood he was in. It had to be the alcohol in both of their

a new fish that was identical to it

She agreed with him. "What about you, though? What's the worst thing you've ever done?" she asked him, the wine thrumming through her veins causing her to be bolder than she normally would have

warmth to you too, Kylan. I wish she believed that Even if it was the alcohol talking, she

hands and tenderly held either side of her face. "I promise, you like the jagged layers of ice that reside underneath my surface." He practically ghosted over the words, his sweet-smelling breath caressing her

wouldn't

now.

chills. Instant raised skin. A quickened heart rate. A dizzying, fuzzy, warmth

back, pressing herself

she could smell the

the mint, his soap, and hell. She could smell him. Just him.

then, I suppose," Kylan

was charged with that electricity again, only made more intense by the wine she consumed. More than that though, she felt drawn to Kylan Pulled to him. Magnetized by

And she kissed him back, holding

kissing. Molding into one another, not caring a

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