Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

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

stick it out with him.

Daman, if

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

worry about

in Portland 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

was exhausting.

away 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

animosity for Kylan.

her. Had opened

so easy. It wasn't so simple. None of

He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning

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

for

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 are worthy of the love they

father's wisdom, his guidance it was everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross Corp. For now, or

couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus

cared for Kylan. She cared for him more than she ever

herself,

go like this was devastating.

Yet, she would

would do it because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were

feigning indifference as she watched his face

her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her

without them holding her together, she didn't

all the more, because who

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Day four.

submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days

She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist,

gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out and ready for a break from Ross Corp.

rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came

Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than

to

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