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

last five weeks, she wasn't sure when the line between professional and personal had become

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

though? How could she 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

or if he was aware of what he was doing when he

all of it really been fake! Did he not mean

if not a connoisseur at hading every emotion he wanted to, whenever he wanted

pretend fiance, pretend wife.

It real.

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both puffy and tired. She frowned at herself in the bathroom mirror unhappy

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

shower, and now that she was finished washing and getting dressed in a sweater and cardigan, she wasn't able to put off going out into the main room any

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 time before the wedding

things like this, if her boss wanted things to be like this, she would have no choice but to follow

couldn't exactly force him to admit to any feelings or confusion he might be

her confusion and embarrassment, she would be professional.

her eyes, squared her shoulders,

do it.

2:51 PM

Chapter 31

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

Everything that came to mind seemed like a terrible idea to unter aloud right

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

his face.

was devoid of emotion, his eyes the most dead and dormant that Katrina had ever seen them. He may have been staring at her, but it didn't feel like he saw

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