Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 55

Chapter 55

Walking behind the pair of them as Kylan showed Nishel Titan Enterprises, was nothing short of humiliating agony

Were Kylan actually her husband. Katrina could imagine how much it seemed like he didn't care about her. Not with the way Nishel had her hand practically groping the bottom of Kylan's back.

"The f*ck is this shit?" /

Aaron hissed from next to her

She looked up at her best friend, finding he was staring at Nishel and Kylan with a pointed glare. "It's nothing, Aaron. It's fine. I'm sure he's just trying to be polite," she whispered back to him, not fully believing the words as she said them.

"He's being a dick, Kate. I know things have been weird between you since Portland, but this is disrespectful. Let me say something to hum, please. 1 don't give a f*ck if he fires me because of it." Aaron sounded like he did mean what he was saying, and she would be lying if she didn't think about taking him up on his offer.

"It's fine, Aaron. Really. It's fine." she murmured to him, turning down another row of machines behind Rylan and Nishel

"Gardner, up here with me. Nishel has some questions," Kylan barked back at Aaron.

Aaron sighed but then listened to their boss

She watched the three of them walk, feeling entirely alone as she did.

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Oscar drove them to the French restaurant that Kylan had taken her to at the beginning of the contract. She ignored the way he stared at her in the rearview mirror periodically.

Kylan wasn't sitting next to her in the SUV, instead, he was next to Nishel whilst she sat by Aaron. She was in the row behind them, watching as Nishel sat far too close to Rylan. Watching as she openly flirted with him. Watching as she put an arm around the back of his seat, and he didn't push it away.

She felt sick to her stomach. Dizzy. So dizzy and untethered.

Aaron leaned forward without warning and sneezed directly onto Nishel's arm. She stared at him, her eyes wide and her mouth open in shock.

"Oh God, I'm so sorry. Gotta be winter allergies. Terribly sorry, Miss. And so sorry, Sir." Aaron feigned innocence, but she knew he had done it all

on purpose.

In worked, though. Nishel withdrew her arm with a disgusted glance back at Aaron. Kylan also made sure Aaron saw his own disdain, but Aaron merely smiled at him sheepishly.

And then Aaron put his hand on her knee and squeezed lightly. She put her hand over his for a moment and squeezed back

It was nice to know someone was thinking of her. Even if it wasn't the person who should have been taking her feelings into consideration in the first place.

Kylan didn't sit by her side at lunch, either. Instead, he sat across from her and let Aaron sit next to her once more. She ordered a bowl of soup and Kylan didn't a glass of water, hardly having the stomach for anything more.

Nishel talk about herself too much, the

much.

at her, her blue eyes bright and glinting in the low lighting of the

any of it. She should be praising him. "He's full of surprises, Kylan Ross. One minute his tongue is down your throat and then the next, he won't look at you. You know? It's quite

ignored the way Kylan was finally looking at her, only

her more fully. "My, my, Kylan, I can see your desire for feisty women

To not unleash a month's worth of frustration

Nishel," Kylan

at her for the first time in a month. He was frowning, his grey eyes completely unreadable "Oh, thank you, Sir Thank you for speaking up on my behalf" Her tone was clipped

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napkin and then stood from the table grabbing

she shook her head. "Enjoy your lunch," she

left the restaurant, making herself stare straight ahead and not back at the

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tension. Tension from Kylan, from Nishel, and from her best

both Mishel and Kylan up to his offer. Aaron took his leave

She

watching silently as Nishel walked around Kylan's desk and stood near where he was

mind filling out these questions and enuiling them to me, I'll have the article done by the end of the week. Nishel rested a hand on Kylan's shoulder, seemingly not caring that Katrina was still around. She stranghaened up and cleared her throat, smoothing down her dress. "Do

openly propositioned her husband. Because to her, that's

"I do not be responded,

She placed it on Rylan's desk and then leaned

Katrina. A man like Kylan Ross is far out

as Nishel left the room, completely unable to say

her talk to her like

Kylan's voice was uncharacteristically

words. All of it was swirling within her.

Never talked back to him, not really. Never stood up for herself when he

in front of Kylan. And he had done next to nothing to

on calling her number, Kylan?" she asked him, her voice a mere whisper right now. He was Kylan right now. Not her

do that?" Kylan asked

that? Why the f*ck would you do that! She was hanging on you all day!

volume, but it felt like an avalanche was cascading in her mind. In her

her, his eyes ablaze in

needed to impress her if you didn't realize. I don't give a f*ck about

reason she needed to hang on you like that. You should have told her to stop. You should have pushed her away. You should have

that woman to touch you and caress you in wars you haven't allowed me to do for a month now. You let her. You let her get close to you. Why? Why could she be close to you?" This

rose from his chair, standing so he was nearly chest-so-chest with her now. She glared at him