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

one. She rested her hands on his chest, picking a piece sweater's otherwise perfect surface. "I don't know, Kylan. In the third grade, I stole a candy bar from the convenience store. I didn't even tell my stray lint from off his dad about it, either. And then I ate

but his eyes were soft.

and delicious. I never felt bad about it. Nope. She smiled up at him, noticing how almost

transgressions must you confess to, Kate! Kylan asked quietly, leaning

do anything that might pull him out of the strange mood he was in. It had to

fish that was identical to it instead." Her voice was soft, her breath brushing

smiled at him. I should have. 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 the courage to be. Kylan frowned at her, but he didn't pull away from where he still rested

a lot of warmth to you too, Kylan. I wish she believed that Even if it was the alcohol talking, she felt it was important he knew and that

her own warmth, Kate." Kylan lifted his 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.

heart rate. A dizzying, fuzzy, warmth filled

true," she mumbled back, pressing herself closer to

close, she could smell

and hell. She could smell him. Just him. Just

at an impasse then, I suppose," Kylan

she consumed. More than that though, she felt drawn to Kylan Pulled to him. Magnetized by him. If you don't kiss me, I'm not certain I'll be able

full, soft, beautiful lips, were on hers. Palling, twisting, pushing against hers. And she kissed him back, holding him

her hair, her fingers held his sides, and she stood there kissing. Molding into one another, not caring a single

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