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

Daman, if she

wasn't ready to talk about things, if he didn't

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

week she spent in Portland 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

was exhausting. It was

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 let Kylan go. She had to let him know

for Kylan. Nor after she told him everything. Not after

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

so simple. None of it

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

father encouraged her to take a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the man. It was to help him.

for

is a challenge. It is still often taboo, my dear girl. You cannot fix someone if they are not ready to take that themselves. You can

wisdom, his guidance it was everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making

make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing

than she ever

too. She cared for herself, too. She

devastating. It

did it. Yet, she would do

that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he decided to work

torture, walking into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could correct it. It

Maine came over to her house that night. They held

them holding her together, she didn't

the more, because who was holding

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Day four.

submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days

at the 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

was burnt out and ready for a break

and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in contact with. Everyone, that

His eyes had never been more hardened, his gaze never more unreadable than it was each time she saw him

to

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