Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Corp, She never cried in front of him.

Katrina had never cried over a man quite like this. Let alone cried in front of one, rither And She had certainly never shed a single tear anywhere near where Kylan could see or hear her. No matter how awful he was to her, most especially during her early days at Ross Not when he told her that her reports were done poorly, or he yelled for her to find a new cafe for his tea for the tenth t awful he ever got, she never shed a single tear where he could see

time. It didn't matter how

But now? Now, he had seen her. He had seen her normally professional front crack, and Katrina wasn't certain how to glue her mask back together

I place Sure, Kylan had been. Well, he'd been truly awful to her.

She was equally as unsure about why her mask had cracked so much, in the firu p yes. But it wasn't anything she shouldn't have been prepared to hear.

She signed the contract

e knew the niles.

she

She accepted them.

She was prepared for them.

Weren't she? Weren't she prepared for them! Weren't she prepared to deal with any and all complications this could cause!

She was a PR specialist and a businesswoman. An independent woman who hadn't ever felt pressured by society to marry for the sake of getting mamed, or to have children just to fit in. Being newly twenty-nine, Katrina hadn't yet begun to feel the tick of any sort of biological clock, either Even still, it was unorthodox of her to agree to a contract of this sort, to begin with. What was more, it was unprofessional for it to get to this point at all

when the line between professional and

Katrina to consider the fact that she had more feelings invested in the situation, in her boss, in Kylan, than

a man that let her see vulnerable parts of himself? How could she not form feelings for a man who made her feel both

aware of what he was doing when he did things like send

fake! Did he not mean any of it? Was he that

Kylan, it was hard to know if he was being honest about something like this. The man was nothing if not a connoisseur at hading every emotion he wanted to, whenever he wanted to. So, if he told her none of it held

to be his pretend fiance, pretend wife.

It real.

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many layers of concealer she applied, her eyes still appeared both puffy and tired. She frowned at herself in the bathroom

alarm only a few hours later. She wasn't sure what to expect from Kylan this morning, and the idea of having to

hadn't looked for him before taking a shower, and now that she was finished washing and getting dressed in a

closing her heavy eyes for a moment. She dug deep, so deep, looking for any and all of her usual professionalism. She would. need every ounce

things to be like this, she

or confusion he might be feeling. And perhaps he wasn't feeling anything like that,

her confusion and embarrassment, she

eyes, squared her shoulders, and then opened

could do it. She

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Chapter 31

the balcony in the

to him? Everything that came to mind seemed like a terrible idea to unter

and her stomach dropped when she saw the look on his face. Or rather, the lack of any

his face.

most dead and dormant that Katrina had ever seen them. He

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