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

had tried. Daman,

didn't want to if he was too broken to. She couldn't fix him. She couldn't force

had to worry about herself. Her own mental health. Her

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 her. To work with her. To must

exhausting.

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

animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him

her. Had helped her. Had opened up to

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

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

father encouraged her to take a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man.

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

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

reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus that haunted the

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

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

devastating. It was painful. It

Yet, she

part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless

feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could

Aaron and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her

without them holding

hurt her all the more, because who was

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and

watch adorning her

day and she was burnt out and ready for

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

never been

attempts to

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