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

stick it out with

she had tried. Daman, if

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

that point, she had to worry about

exhausting. She lost track of how many times she cried. How often she wallowed in her sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself

exhausting.

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

held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she

up for her. Had helped her. Had opened up to her.

so easy. It wasn't so simple. None of

Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't

back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't

for

are not ready to take that themselves. You can love them, but even from a distance. From a distance, until and if

was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from

see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was

for Kylan. She cared for him more than she ever karwar would. She wanted him to

She cared for herself, too. She had worked hard for

was devastating.

did it. Yet,

would do it because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he decided to work

feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct it. It was horrendous.

her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her strength

would have done without them holding her

more, because who was holding

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Day four.

since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three

She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that

and she was burnt out and ready for a break from

to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in contact with.

eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never

attempts to keep her

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