Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 51

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 professional and personal had

invested in the situation, in her

see vulnerable parts of himself? How could

if he was aware of 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

been fake! Did he not mean

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

pretend fiance, pretend wife. The bottom line was clear, though it had been blurred as of

It real.

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still appeared both puffy and tired. She frowned at herself in the

herself to sleep last night, Katrina had awoken to her alarm only a few hours later. She wasn't sure what to expect from Kylan this morning, and the idea of having to see him. It set her stomach on edge and pushed any thoughts of breakfast far from

taking a shower, and now that she was finished washing and getting dressed in a sweater and cardigan, she wasn't able

deep, so deep, looking for any and all of her usual professionalism. She would. need every ounce of it if she was meant to get through the day. Especially a day when she would have to see her father one more

be like this, she would have no choice but to follow his

or confusion he might be feeling. And perhaps he wasn't feeling

she was feeling, or her confusion and embarrassment, she would be professional.

her shoulders,

could do it. She had no

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Chapter 31

slightly when she saw Kylan sitting at the table near the balcony in the

she have anything to say to him? Everything that came

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

his face.

emotion, his eyes the most dead and dormant that Katrina had ever seen them.

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