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

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

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

exhausting. It was

her see both the situation and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan

soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told

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

It wasn't so simple. None of it was

He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in

a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was

for

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

that she was making the right decision by stepping away from

She couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus

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

she loved herself, too. She cared for herself, too. She had worked hard for herself,

like this was devastating.

Yet,

her part in trying to peel back

indifference as she watched his face

They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her strength and

them holding her together, she

the more, because who was holding

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Day four.

was day four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and

in the mug on the counter of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist,

burnt out and

perhaps trumped even the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in contact with. Everyone, that is, apart from

was nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than it was

attempts to keep

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