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

stick it out with him. To lift

she had tried. Daman,

the end of 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 him. She couldn't

that point, she had to worry about herself. Her own mental health. Her

sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself not to call Kylan. To lash out at him.

exhausting.

and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect for herself. The two

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

Kylan had stood up for her. Had helped her.

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

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

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

for

challenge. It is still 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

that she was making the right decision by stepping away

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

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

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

devastating. It was painful. It was

it. Yet, she would

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

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

over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They

them holding her together, she

because who was holding Kylan together, if

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Day four.

since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days before

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

she was burnt out and ready for a break from Ross Corp. From

and the iciness outside. He was rude to

His eyes had never been

to keep her

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