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 lift
she had tried. Daman,
talk about things, if he didn't want to if he
about herself. Her own mental
been both liberating and exhausting. She lost track of how many times she cried. How often she wallowed in her sadness. She couldn't
exhausting.
her see both the situation and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect for
the kind soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after
Had helped her. Had opened up
It wasn't so simple. None of it was black
Broken. Floundering. Drowning in
back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was to
for
they are not ready to take that themselves. You can
everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross Corp. For
see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus that haunted
cared for him more than she ever karwar would. She wanted him to
herself, too. She cared for herself, too. She had
like this was devastating. It was painful. It was
it. Yet, she
because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over
office, feigning indifference as she watched his face
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
would have done without them holding
the more, because who was
-0-0-0-
Day four.
day four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days
She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more minute left before the tea would be
was another gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out
grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he
was nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than it was each time she saw
to keep her
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