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

to stick it out with

tried. Daman, if she

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

point, she had to worry about herself. Her own

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 to call Kylan. To lash out at him. To beg him to just talk to her. To work with her.

was 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. The two could coexist within her heart, but she had to

for Kylan.

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

simple. None of it

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

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

for

take that themselves. You can love them, but even from a distance. From a distance, until and if

everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross Corp.

see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his

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

She cared for herself, too.

was devastating. It was painful. It was

did it. Yet, she

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

walking into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before

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 and

she would have done without them holding her together, she didn't

all the more, because who was holding Kylan together,

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Day four.

day four since submitting her resignation

She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more minute left before the tea

was another gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out

perhaps trumped even the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came

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

attempts to keep her

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