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

sure when the line between

feelings invested in

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

what he was doing when he did things like send her meals at home, or held open doors for her. Or when his fingertips grazed her neck or his gray

Did he not mean any of it? Was he that good

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 meaning, she was

boss. She signed up to be his pretend fiance, pretend wife. The bottom line was clear, though it had been blurred as of

It real.

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eyes still appeared both puffy and tired. She frowned at herself in the bathroom mirror unhappy with just

what to expect from Kylan this morning, and the idea of having to

dressed in a sweater and cardigan, she wasn't able to put off

professionalism. She would. need every ounce of it if she was meant to

things to be like this, she

force him to admit to any feelings or confusion he might be feeling. And perhaps he wasn't feeling

the hum she was feeling, or her confusion and embarrassment, she would be

her eyes, squared her shoulders,

it. She

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Chapter 31

saw Kylan sitting at the table near the balcony in the bedroom. His hand was under his chin, and

him? Everything that came to mind

opening the door, and her stomach dropped when she

his face.

dead and dormant that Katrina had ever seen them. He may have been staring at her, but it didn't feel like

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