Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

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

wanted to stick it out with him. To

had tried. Daman, if she hadn't

he 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

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

exhausting. It was

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

that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor

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

so simple. None

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

i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite

for

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

was more than she needed to know that she was making

the only thing he was really seeing was his

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

too. She cared for herself, too.

was devastating. It

it. Yet, she

it because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he decided to

she watched his face fall

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

done without them holding her

her all the more, because who was holding Kylan

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Day four.

resignation papers to

tea steeping 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 more minute left before the tea would be

another gloomy, overcast day and she was burnt out

the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in

been more hardened, his gaze

attempts to