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

out with him. To

she had 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 couldn't

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

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

was exhausting.

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

soul that he was really held no animosity for Kylan.

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

so simple. None of it was

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

and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite the

for

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

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

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

ever karwar would. She wanted him to be

herself, too. She had

like this was devastating. It was painful. It was

she did it. Yet,

that her part in trying to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he decided

as she watched his face fall before he

because Aaron and Maine came over to her house that night. They held her as she cried. They reminded her of her strength and what her mental

have done without them holding her together, she didn't

more, because who was holding

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Day four.

submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and three days

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

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

to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came

been

attempts to

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