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

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

feelings invested in the situation, in her

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 alive

if he was aware of what he was doing when he did things like send her meals at home, or held open doors

of it really been fake! Did he not mean any of

nothing if not a connoisseur at hading every emotion he wanted to, whenever he wanted to. So, if he told her

all, she was his assistant, and he was her boss. She signed up to be his pretend fiance, pretend wife. The bottom line was clear, though it had been blurred as of late. None of it

It real.

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

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

a shower, and now that she was finished washing and getting dressed in a sweater and cardigan, she wasn't able to put off going

for a moment. She dug deep, so deep, looking for any and all of her usual professionalism. She would. need every ounce of it if she was meant to

like this, if her boss wanted things to be like

to any feelings or confusion he might be feeling. And perhaps

her confusion and embarrassment, she

opened her eyes, squared her shoulders, and then opened the

it. She had no

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

speak first? Did she have anything to say to him? Everything that came to

her stomach dropped when she saw the look

his face.

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

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