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

tried. Daman, if she hadn't

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

to worry about herself.

she wallowed in her sadness. She couldn't count the number

was exhausting. It was

her father, and telling him everything helped her see both 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

animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told

her. Had opened up

simple. None of it was black and

a human being. Kylan was a human being. He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know what

i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it

for

mental health 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 love

It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross

couldn't fix Kylan. She couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his

she ever karwar would. She

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

devastating. It

did it. Yet, she would do

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 was horrendous. The

that day, because Aaron and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her of

without them holding her together, she

then it hurt her all the more, because who was holding Kylan together, if

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers

watch adorning her

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

was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in contact with. Everyone,

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

to

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