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.
talk about herself too much, the Nightfall too much,
much.
bed, isn't he? I myself couldn't walk for two-days after our night together." Nishel was staring at her, her blue eyes
in a relationship. Cold Aloof. Arrogant." She shouldn't be saying 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 the game, really. Quite the experience. But I'm
way Kylan was finally looking at her, only to glare
her more fully. "My, my, Kylan, I can see your desire for feisty women hasn't changed since we slept together,
to remain calm. To not unleash a month's worth of frustration on this pathetically desperate
enough, Nishel,"
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 and crisp, all pretenses were thrown out the damn
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a napkin and then stood from the table
too, but she shook her head. "Enjoy your
stare straight ahead and not back at
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with unspoken tension. Tension from Kylan, from Nishel,
back at Ross Corp, she followed both Mishel and Kylan up to his offer. Aaron took his leave along the way, quietly promising her he would come
She
her chair, watching silently as Nishel walked around Kylan's desk and
week. Nishel rested a hand on Kylan's shoulder, seemingly not caring that
woman practically openly propositioned
faxed on his desk. "I do not be responded, his voice
She placed it on Rylan's desk and then
smile at her. "A bit of advice for you, Katrina. A man like Kylan Ross is far out of
to say anything
her talk to her
uncharacteristically quiet
unsaid words. All of it was swirling within her. All of it was begging to come out. To
yelled at her boss. Never talked back to him, not really. Never stood up for herself when he reprimanded her. Now
had been humiliated Degraded Disrespected. Right in front of Kylan. And he had
Kylan?" she asked him, her voice a mere whisper right now. He
do that?" Kylan asked as if it should
would you do that? Why
was steadily gaining in volume, but it felt like an avalanche was cascading in her mind. In her heart. Her soul. She was tired
at her, his eyes ablaze in a
didn't realize. I don't give a f*ck about that woman
that. You should have told her to stop. You should have pushed her away. You should have been holding my hand." She stood from her chair, walked around Rylan's
a month now. You let her. You let her get close to you. Why? Why could she be close
he was nearly chest-so-chest with her now. She glared at him and
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