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 him. To lift
tried. Daman, if she
end of it all. if he wasn't ready to talk about things, if he didn't want to if he was
about herself. Her own mental health.
with her dad, had been both liberating and 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 not to call Kylan. To lash out at him. To
was exhausting. It was
from the chaos with Kylan, opening up to her father, and telling him everything helped her see both the situation and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect for herself. The two
the kind soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him everything. Not after
had stood up for her. Had helped her. Had opened up to
It wasn't so simple. None of
Broken. Floundering.
Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was to help
for
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 they are worthy of the love they
to know that she was
hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and
than she ever karwar would. She wanted him to be
herself, too. She cared for herself, too. She had worked
devastating. It was
she did it. Yet, she would
deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he decided
feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct it.
only made it through that day, because Aaron and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her
have done without them holding her together,
the more, because who was holding Kylan together, if
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Day four.
was day four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan,
glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more minute left before the tea would be
another gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out and ready for a
perhaps trumped even the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came
nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been
attempts to keep
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