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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

wanted to stick it out with him.

tried. Daman,

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

about herself. Her own mental

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 work with

exhausting. It

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

he was really held no animosity for Kylan.

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

easy. It wasn't so simple. None of it

He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know what

i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it

for

not ready to take that themselves. You can love them, but even from

she needed to know that she was making

if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and the

more than she ever karwar would. She wanted him

cared for herself, too. She

like this was devastating. It

she did it. Yet, she would

part in trying to peel back the

was torture, walking into that office, feigning indifference as she watched his face

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

without them holding her together, she

the more, because who was holding Kylan together,

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Day four.

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

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

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

Robotic. His eyes had never been

attempts to

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