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

to stick it out with him. To

had tried. Daman, if she

he wasn't ready to talk about things, if he didn't want to if he was too broken to. She couldn't

about herself. Her own mental

in her sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself

exhausting. It

Kylan, opening 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

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

Kylan had stood up for her. Had helped her. Had

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

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

step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan, it wasn't to spite

for

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 them, but even from a distance. From a distance, until and if they decide for themselves that they are worthy of

she needed to know that she was making the right decision by stepping away from Ross Corp. For now, or

was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner turmoil, and

ever

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

go like this was devastating. It was painful. It

she did it. Yet, she would

in trying to peel back the

office, feigning indifference as she watched his face fall before he could

They held her as she cried. They reminded her

done without them holding

more, because who was holding Kylan

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Day four.

resignation papers to Kylan, and

the mug on the counter of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist,

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

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

never been

attempts to

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