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

out with him. To

had tried. Daman, if

to talk about things, if he didn't

worry about herself.

week she spent 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

exhausting. It was

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.

held no animosity for Kylan. Nor

Kylan had stood up for her. Had helped her. Had opened up to her. Had been

easy. It wasn't so simple. None

being. He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in

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

for

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

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

couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing

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

for herself, too. She had worked hard for

go like this was devastating. It was painful. It

did it. Yet, she would

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

into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct it. It

over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her strength and what her

done without them

her all the more, because who was holding Kylan together,

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Day four.

was day four since submitting her resignation papers

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

and she was burnt out and ready

outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in contact with.

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

attempts to keep her

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