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

out with him.

Daman, if she hadn't

things, if he didn't want to if he was too broken to.

point, she had to worry about

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 beg him to just talk to

was exhausting. It

both have compassion for Kylan and respect for herself. The two could coexist within

held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him everything. Not

her. Had helped her. Had

wasn't so easy. It wasn't so simple. None of it was black and

Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know

back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was to help him. And to help

for

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 they

his guidance it was everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making the

really seeing was his darkness,

she ever karwar would. She

loved herself, too. She cared for herself,

go like this was devastating. It was painful.

it. Yet, she would

in trying to peel back

his face fall before he could correct it. It was

came over to her house that night. They held her as

she would have done without them holding her together,

all the more, because who was holding Kylan

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Day four.

since submitting her resignation papers

on the counter of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning

was burnt out and ready

the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately.

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

attempts to

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