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.

she had tried. Daman, if

ready to talk about things, if he didn't want to if he was too

had to worry about herself. Her own mental health.

sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself not to

was exhausting. It was

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

father, ever the kind soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him everything. Not after she shared

helped her.

easy. It wasn't so simple. None of

Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief

Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was to help

for

mental 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

more than she needed to know that

fix Kylan. She couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was

more than she ever karwar would. She wanted him to be okay. To be

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

like this was devastating. It

it. Yet,

acknowledge that her part in trying to peel

feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct

They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her strength and what

would have done without them holding her together, she didn't

because who was holding Kylan together, if

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and

looked down at the tea steeping in the mug on the counter of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that

another gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out and ready for a break from

perhaps trumped even the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that

dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than it was each time

attempts to keep

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