Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 78

Chapter 78

"She was. She was. Her life was taken from her, while I was at work. While I wasn't. Wasn't there to protect her."

Kylan cleared his throat again, dipping his head so that his bangs concealed part of his face.

Katrina said nothing. Did nothing, though her heart was breaking for him.

"No possible witnesses gave a shit, not in that neighborhood. I found her body a few hours after she was already. Gone. The police didn't give a

to find the perpetrator. He tried to help. But with the police force not behind him after only a few

bitterly, shaking his

he said it with fondness, she noted despite her discomfort with his choice of words. "He tried his best when I started getting into fights and shit. My uh. Friends... they also tried. But I fell off the deep end. I started drinking more heavily. I stopped giving a shit. If I hadn't already graduated a few months before she died. I would have

enough, anyway. When I moved here, I realized how many neighborhoods there are like the one I lived in at home. I realized how little the police force gave a... a damn about those people, he glanced at Katrina who smiled in encouragement and gratefulness at him, "even though they are the ones who need the protection the most. I uh, came up with the idea for Ross Corporation about five years later, when my ass was a linle more put together, and approached Ryan about it first. He helped me perfect the idea of the stealth drone, of the cameras. He helped get our foot in the door with different police departments through his connections.

ran his hands through his hair a few times, and she noticed they were trembling. "They never found my mother's killer. We buried her in New York so that she could be close to Keith, specifically. They

my life in the news. But Ryan is better with numbers, Keith only wanted to be a silent partner, and that left me to be the face

rates are in the areas where you have drones circling in the sky? Do you know how revered your technology is How many terrible acts have been solved because of you?" she spoke earnestly, trying to will him to believe her. To trust her words. She was being honest, entirely

was. It wasn't your fault, either. Her profession or a different one, it still wouldn't have been your fault. There was no way you could have ever anticipated something like that happening. You didn't know, Kylan. You simply didn't know. You were a kid. Eighteen years old. I

"Anyway, that's half of what makes me a monster." His shoulders visibly tensed, his knee bouncing

p to the

stop here for today. I'm incredibly grateful you opened up at