Chapter 71

Chapter 71

or the

resignation pape

papers to Kylan

She ripped her heart out when she gave

Katrina hadn't wanted to. She wanted to work with Rylan, to help Kylan, to know Kylam

The further she fell into him, sank into him, felt for him, the harder it became to step away. Which was the very reason she knew the needed to

only for now.

For now. Hopefully only

Kylan Ross was a beautiful person. He had a wonderful heart, a giving soul, and a smirk that could weaken even the most steel set of knees.

Kylan Ross was a broken man. He had a troubled mind, a soul lorked far away, and a frown that broke her own heart.

She recognized bits of herself in him. In his behavior and in his fear. There were remnants of her own trauma,

na, her own heartache from her mother walking out on her that are at her soul.

However, she had put in the work. She had strived with a therapist for years to get to a place where she felt stable. Where the felt cafe in the walls of her own mind.

It was clear Kylan had never confronted his demons, whatever they all may be. It was obvious he had yet to heal. To be angry be angry Really angry. And not only the surface-level kind of anger everyone knew he carried with him. What had he been throught What shackled his heart, his spint?

What were the contents of his nightmares! What fueled him to get his cardinal tattoo?

let himself

What made him pull her in, shower her with affection, with love, and with words that made her melt into him? What made him push her away. deny her leave her

it out with him. To lift

tried. Daman, if she hadn't

to talk about things, if he didn't want to if he was too broken to. She couldn't fix him.

that point, she had to worry about herself. Her own mental

she cried. How often she wallowed in her sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself not

was exhausting. It

herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect for herself. The two could coexist within her heart, but she had to let Kylan go. She

for Kylan. Nor after she

Had helped her.

so simple. None of it was black

a human being. He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief

encouraged her to take a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to

for

health is a challenge. It is still often taboo, my dear girl. You cannot fix someone if they are not ready to take that themselves. You can love them, but even from a distance. From a distance, until and if they decide for themselves that

than she needed to know that she was making the

he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus that haunted the

cared for him more than she ever karwar would. She

cared for herself, too. She had worked

this was devastating. It was painful. It

she did it. Yet, she would

would do it because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back

walking into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct it. It

that night. They held her as

them holding her together, she

more, because who was holding Kylan together, if

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Day four.

was day four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days before

of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more minute left before the tea

and she was burnt out and ready for a break from Ross Corp. From

outside. He was rude to

He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze

to keep

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