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.
herself too much, the
much.
two-days after our night together." Nishel was staring at her, her blue eyes bright and glinting in the low lighting of the restaurant She felt so small.
One minute his tongue
finally looking at her, only to glare at
fully. "My, my, Kylan, I can see your desire for feisty women hasn't changed since we
not unleash a month's worth of frustration on
enough, Nishel," Kylan
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
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excuse me. I'll
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with a napkin and then stood from the table grabbing her
shook her head. "Enjoy your lunch," she
ahead and not back at the man who was playing her heart like a
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tension. Tension from
followed both Mishel and Kylan up to his offer. Aaron took
She
silently as Nishel walked around Kylan's
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 you still have my number, Kylan?"
staring at this.. This woman practically openly propositioned
"I do not be responded, his voice
what looked to be a business card. She placed it on Rylan's desk and then leaned down near his ear. "For later, if
at her. "A bit of advice for you, Katrina. A man like Kylan Ross is far out of your league. You're an a But I do
say anything to her. Katrina blinked, her mouth open, her
her
was uncharacteristically quiet
So many feelings, so many unsaid words. All of it was swirling within her. All of it was begging to
never yelled at her boss. Never talked back to him, not really. Never stood up for
front of Kylan. And he had done next
right now. He was Kylan right now.
the f*ck would I do that?" Kylan asked
behavior or lack thereof. She heard herself laugh sarcastically. "Why the f*ck would you do that? Why the
in her mind. In her heart.
her, his eyes ablaze in
I don't give a
no 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 been holding my
for innocently sharing a bed with two of my friends. Yet you allowed 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 was so much bigger than today,
he was nearly chest-so-chest with her now. She glared
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