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

Daman, if

of it 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

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

sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself not to call Kylan. To lash out

was exhausting.

telling him everything helped her see both the situation and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect

no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she

Had helped her. Had opened up to her. Had been vulnerable

wasn't so simple. None of

was a human being. He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know what to do

her father encouraged her to take a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it

for

not ready to take that themselves. You can love them, but even from a distance. From a distance, until and

more than she needed to know that she

he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and

she ever karwar

herself, too. She cared for herself, too. She

go like this was devastating. It was

it. Yet, she would

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

as she watched his

house that night. They held her as

without them holding her

hurt her all the more, because who

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Day four.

day four since submitting her resignation papers to

break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more

burnt out

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

never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than it was each

to keep her

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