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Chapter 71

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

wanted to stick it out with him.

had tried. Daman, if she hadn't

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

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

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.

was exhausting. It

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 could coexist within her heart, but she had to let Kylan go. She had to let him know that she

animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him everything. Not after she

had stood up for her. Had helped her. Had opened

so simple.

He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't

Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite

for

ready to take that themselves. You can

to know that she was making the right

couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus that haunted the halls

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

too. She cared for herself, too. She

go like this was devastating. It was painful. It was

she did it. Yet, she

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

into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his

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 strength

have done without them holding

the more, because who was holding Kylan

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers to

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 she had one more minute left before the tea would be ready to bring

burnt out and ready

outside. He was rude to

nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than

to keep

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