Chapter 43

Chapter

43

Katrina held Kylan's hand as they walked to the car, her veins still pulsing warmly from the wine traveling through her body. They stood close together, allowing the strangely relaxed mood to continue as Kylan opened her door for her and she climbed inside. She found she wasn't nervous for a moment, sitting in the car next to Kylan, a comfortable silence still surrounding the both of them. She almost forgot all about having to share a bed with her boss at all.

That was until kylan pulled the car up to the valet at the hotel and she found herself staring at the red brick building, her throat suddenly going completely dry. She needed water. She needed air. She needed to be calm.

She tried to recall any earlier resolve she may have been able to find about the entire situation, but she found exactly none.

The wine she drank now felt like a vice gripping her heart, as it surely only furled the anxiety springing to life inside her.

She realized Rylan had been waiting for her to take his hand, and she smiled at him nervously, accepting the gesture and allowing him to guide her into the hotel lobby

Kylan himself seemed perfectly calm, not a hint of apprehension reading on his face. Maybe this wasn't a big deal? Maybe it really would be fine Maybe there was nothing to truly be nervous about?

She watched Kylan press the button to call the elevator and she focused on her breathing while she waited for the doors to pull open.

Jeez

Had the lobby been this warm a few hours ago!

glance at Kylan, frowning when she saw he still seemed wholly unaffected by any and

and no

gotten two rooms. Hell, she could have even reserved a room that housed two beds instead of one, And yet. Kylan had insisted

could say no? Or was it because she

That was ridiculous. Ridiculous and foolish, a slippery

herself to venture

to venture down.

certain her hand was sweaty in Rylan's hold, and she fought the urge to pull away from him entirely. He led her into the

so much, Kate?" Kylan deadpanned, the low baritone of his voice coming

eyes a fraction too wide. She hadn't realized she'd outwardly been restless in the first place and wasn't at all prepared to be called

"Oh!

Sorry.

and more.

Kylan. With every fumbled word that left

it was never

almost every previous hint of warmth

enough time sleeping as it he grumbled at her,

walked out with him, her

it over the small metal box that sat just above the door handle. A brici flash of green on the bus indicated that the door could be opened, and kylan pushed

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