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

behind him after only a few days of pretending to find the f*cker who did it, it was practically useless. After that though, he checked in on me every now and then.

bitterly, shaking

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 no doubt dropped out

York, my friends moved with me. I slowly got better, I guess. Picked me up off the ground 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. And then he also moved to New York, and we approached my

trembling. "They never found my mother's killer. We buried her in New York so that she could be close to Keith, specifically. They were. They were good friends. Her and her brother." His

face in the news, my life in the news. But Ryan is better with numbers, Keith only wanted to

revered your technology is How many terrible acts have been solved because of you?" she spoke earnestly, trying to will him to believe

I couldn't save my own mother. I couldn't prevent her from being taken from me. I mean you know, from the world" Kylan's voice was shaking and Katrina bit her inner cheek. She hated not touching him, but she didn't know if he even wanted that from her. -That wasn't her fault. None of it 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 am so sorry that happened to you, and to your mother especially. I am so sorry the person responsible was never

"Anyway, that's half of what makes me a monster." His shoulders visibly tensed, his knee bouncing more vigorously. "Tuh, don't know how to talk about the other half, he admitted quietly, so quietly,

p to the

you, we can stop here for today. I'm incredibly grateful you opened up at him, if only so that he could see