Contract Marriage with My CEO Boss

Chapter 95

Chapter 95

Kylan let go of her hand, moving to kneel in front of this grave in the same way he did for Yasmin. Only this time. This time, he completely slumped forward, his hand grasping the grass in front of her grave, his knuckles clenched tightly. He dropped the bouquet of flowers, his shoulders shaking slightly.

She stayed where she was, giving Rylan the space and time to process what he needed to. To feel what he needed to. To break, if he needed to

She would be there to pick up the pieces, should he want her to

But this was. This was Kylan's moment. His grief that she couldn't begin to understand

so sorry" Kylan was mumbling the same words repeatedly, his voice little more than a whisper in the

"I'm so sorry I'm so sor

Slowly, she knelt next to him as she had at Yasmin's grave. She didn't touch him still, instead brushing leaves and other nature away from Karina's final resting place.

"This is. This is Katrina. Mom. She's Kylan sniffed, and she realized he was crying. She hadn't seen him

since Christmas Eve, and she stiffened. "She's the woman that. She's everything to me. I wish. Christ. I wish you could meet her." His voice caught at the end, and he shook his head bitterly.

I would have loved to have met her, Kylan, I'm certain she was beautiful, she whispered the words, trying to picture Kylan as a child in her mind.

She could almost see it play out in front of her tangibly. A small boy with stark black ir, smiling up at his mother with adoration and love as she bent down to pick him up, twirling him as he giggled happily. It was a beautiful vision. A beautiful dream

Je vais te rendre fiere, maman. Je serai un homme bon. Kylan kissed his fingertips, placing them on the headstone and adjusting the flowers into the vase connected to her grave.

"She's already proud of you, Kylan. I know she is, I am, too. I'm so proud of you, she gambled and wrapped an arm around his shoulders, kissing the side of his cheek softly.

Kylan looked at the flowers, tears in his eyes. "Thank you, Katrina. For being here, I mean." He sounded so small. So uncertain.

She hugged him to her gently, her hand brushing through his hair. "I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Kylan," she murmured.

She stayed like that for a long time, the sun nearly disappearing behind the grey clouds that hung in the sky. She held Kylan, and he held her. Neither of them spoke, neither of them needed to. -0-0-0-

"Breckenridge, Colorado?" She eyed her boarding pass curiously, following Kylan after he finished checking in her bags

"Breckenridge," Kylan echoed, wrapping an arm around her waist, and pulling her against him. He seemed to want to be touching her in some capacity, ever since leaving the graveyard. Something had undeniably shifted between them in those quiet moments she shared in his grief. She felt closer to him. She felt like she knew him

so much more now.

"How long of a flight is that?" she asked nervously, pulling out her ID so she could walk through security.

"Nearly four hours. I'll be right next to you" Kylan assured her, rubbing circles into her lower back.

"You challenged yourself today. Now it's my turn," she responded confidently, lifting her head a bit higher on her shoulders.

Kylan chuckled at her, the sound low and almost affectionate. "Okay, darling Okay" He surprised her by kissing her cheek, and she smiled at him.

-0-0-0-

The flight to Breckenridge was long, but she wasn't nearly as anxious as she would have been, had it not been for Kylan's steady presence and his hands on her the entire journey

was a near blizzard

made their way off the plane, thankful yet again th

she followed him first to baggage claim, and then to rent

was piling into a white Escalade, strapping her seatbelt on, and turning

his own seat belt in place and turning on her seat warmer for her, just

got it. Sir." she teased him, reaching

resting her hand

car with the coed she brought along, choosing the classical playlist Kylan always enjoyed listening to

seat just as Kylan instructed, her eyes on his

didn't know how to tell him. She didn't want to scare him away with the depths of her feelings She must have fallen asleep at some point, because she felt a hand on her face, so soft she almost wondered if she were imagining

sciousness.

Katrina," Kylan's low, conforting voice,

Stuntered hei

she did. "Mom, where's here?" she mumbled, rubbing the

only reply. He opened his door and stepped out, the distinct sound of snow crunching

She climbed out of the car, stumbling a uneven, snow-laced ground. Kylan was at the trunk now,

her feer worked

o adjust to the

caught her attention, and she

No way Kylan brought

She couldn't speak. Couldn't

with warmth, despite the frigid

in snow. A cabin situated in the mountains, surrounded by a sea of trees and the backdrop of

like the painting that hung in

this was real life, and it

here. Kylan

thing she could see, was Rylan moving toward the cabin, luggage in

that she never wanted to see anyone else by her side. She never wanted to see anyone else carrying her luggage, or comforting her on a plane. She never wanted anyone else to hold

was wh

wanted. Kylan was who she dreamed of as a little girl, alone in her bed, sad and distressed after

before she had an

stopped a few feet away from the

Like that. But um you know, it's t-true. I love you. I'm in love with you. You're You're everything to me. Now that she started talking, the words wouldn't stop falling from her lips. Her heart was an absolute disaster in her chest,

anything. I don't. I don't want you to say anything, just because I did. I know this is a. A big step. So just... Let's go inside. okay?" She walked over to him quickly, avoiding his gaze while she waited for him to open

it. She could sense

he started quietly. She couldn't decipher the tone of his voice, and she was still

Her voice was too high-patched to

okay." Kylan unlocked the door of the cabin, pushing it open and finding a light switch to

all situated right in front of her. A bathroom was located off to the left, down a small hallway. Her eyes drifted

intimate. Only now, she wanted to run away. To disappear into the forest and let nature

still couldn't look at Kylan while she untied her boots and sat them near the front

Chapter 95

fire in the fireplace and if you want, you can take a shower" Kylan's voice was cautious, on guard, and she wanted to

up, after

at him. She hauled her suitcase upstairs,

A small chair sat in the corner near a large window that overlooked the forest below. It was snowing a bit outside, flakes of white passing

was grateful there was also a bathroom upstairs, not quite ready to go and face Kylan again. She turned on a bedside lamp, setting her suitcase on top of

she stole. Her hair was tied up in