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

she had tried. Daman, if

of it all. if he wasn't ready to talk about things, if he didn't

that point, she had to worry about

How often she wallowed in her sadness. She couldn't count the number of instances she fought herself not to

exhausting.

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

kind soul that he was really held no animosity for

her. Had opened

It wasn't so simple.

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

father encouraged her to take a step back i Ross Corp, and from Kylan,

for

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

couldn't make hun see reason if the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness, hus uner

ever karwar

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

this was devastating. It was painful.

she did it. Yet, she

to peel back the layers that were Kylan Ross was over unless he

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

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

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

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

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Day four.

four since submitting her resignation papers to Kylan, and

on the counter of the break room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist, taking note that she had

was burnt out and ready for a

trumped even the grey clouds and the iciness outside. He was rude to everyone lately. Absolutely anyone that he came in

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

to keep

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