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

it out with him.

tried. Daman,

things, if he didn't want to if he was too

point, she had to worry about herself. Her

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

was exhausting. It

compassion for Kylan and respect for herself. The two could coexist within her heart, but she had

that he was really held no animosity for

her. Had helped her. Had opened up

It wasn't so simple. None of it

Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know what to do

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

for

someone if they are not ready to take that themselves. You can love them, but

It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right

hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the shakus that haunted the halls of

than she ever

herself, too. She cared for herself,

this was devastating. It was

it. Yet, she would

do it because she deserved to acknowledge that her part in trying to peel back the

watched his face

and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as

without them holding her together, she didn't

hurt her all the more, because who was

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Day four.

day four since submitting her resignation papers to

watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had one more minute left before the tea would be ready

day and she was burnt out and ready for a break from

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

her, he was nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been more

attempts to keep her

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