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

wanted to stick it out with him. To lift

Daman, if she hadn't

he didn't want to if he was too broken to.

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

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 to call Kylan. To lash out at him. To beg him to just talk to

was exhausting. It

up to her father, and telling him everything helped her see both the situation and herself clearly. She could both have compassion for Kylan and respect

the kind soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan. Nor after she told him

for her. Had helped her. Had opened up to her.

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

He was just Broken. Floundering. Drowning in grief he didn't know what to do with it

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

for

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

guidance it was everything. It was more than she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross Corp. For

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

for him more than she ever karwar would.

herself, too. She cared for herself, too. She

him go like this was devastating. It was painful.

did it. Yet,

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

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

it through that day, because Aaron and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as she

without them holding her together, she didn't

because who was holding Kylan

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers

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

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

and the iciness outside. He was rude to

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

to keep her

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