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

had tried. Daman, if she

didn't want to if he was too broken to. She couldn't fix him. She couldn't force

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

She couldn't count the number of instances she

was exhausting. It

the chaos with 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 respect for herself. The two could coexist within her heart, but she had to let Kylan go. She

animosity for Kylan.

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

simple. None of it was

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

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

for

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

that she

the only thing he was really seeing was his darkness,

for him more than she ever karwar would.

for herself, too. She had worked hard

go like this was devastating. It was painful.

it. Yet, she

peel back the layers

that office, feigning indifference 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

without them holding her together, she didn't

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

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Day four.

resignation papers to Kylan, and three days

room. She glanced at the small watch adorning her wrist,

out and ready

outside. He was rude to

was nearly zombie-like. He was dry. Curt. Robotic. His eyes had never been

to

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