A CEO's Revenge Marriage Accidentally in Love

Chapter 48

Chapter 48

Jake

I’m not a very talkative person… or well. I talk easily to those close to me, and then I act reserved toward newcomers. I’ve always been like this, even from a young age. This made it hard for me to make friends as a kid,

but I was never bothered by that.

Winnie, my childhood friend and old

neighbor, made me feel seen throughout my

childhood.

Instead of ignoring me like everyone else

did, Winnie included me in everything. We were partners in crime, and I fell for her because she always smiled and made my day

better.

This is why Winnie has been on my brain for the past twenty-two years. People claim kids can’t fall in love and don’t know what those

emotions are, but trust me when I say that

I’ve loved Winnie for years. She has always been the one, but I’m starting to believe she doesn’t deserve me.

In the end, I never mattered as much to her

as she did to me…

I try to push that feeling aside and focus on the tacos I’m making. I chop some

vegetables and put some meat on the stove.

Winnie is sitting by the table, glancing at me whenever she thinks I’m not noticing it. Now that I’ve voiced my thoughts to her, she suddenly sees me, but karma is a bitch

because I wasn’t born yesterday. It will take

miracle for me to regain my interest in

Vell…

ou don’t get over someone you’ve liked for ears in a day, but I’m certainly chillier

ward her now. I asked Winnie to do

rands with me because I was too chicken

it to ask her out on a date. And what does

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she do? Break my freaking heart.

I’m still hurting….

However, she bought me the cookies we used to steal from the cupboard as kids, so my heart isn’t entirely frozen over. I’m also a nice guy, so it’s not like I won’t be her

friend.

“Jake?” Winnie asks in a low voice.

I don’t look at her from where I’m standing by the counter. My sole focus is on the cucumbers that I’m chopping for our tacos. ” Mhm?”

“I’m an asshole.”

almost smile. Almost.

from her seat. “I want to make it up to you,

a klutz and would probably end up

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fingers.

want to help

I don’t want

to visit the hospital.

fighting it!

stone when Winnie determinedly

is much shorter than me, head around my

adorable, and my heart flutters

It’s frustrating.

Winnie, but I can’t. I shouldn’t. I try to turn the other way, but I’m drawn in by her beautiful

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

hard to stay mad at someone who makes your heart sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at her nakes me start to forget my anger.

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around her head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without putting

if Winnie doesn’t put up her hair, the chances of her cutting herself are

a scrunchie around your arm or something?”

at me, all dazzling teeth and annoyingly cute freckles. My heart clenches, but I ignore

dangerous life, and I open a drawer to take out a rubber band. “First off, you need to put up your hair. I don’t want you slicing up your

blinks up at

“It’s what you are,”

Winnie and mash down

to pick her up. I’m mad at her,

surprised you’ve made it

life.”

not that clumsy!”

when you ran into a pole in

second year of high school because

showing around the new kid?

ears turns red,

was a one-time

shit happens…’

also fell on your ass like once a week on your way to school in the past. Pretty sure that’s why you started to hold on to my arm. ” I smile at the memory. It’s a fond one. And you picked me, not Mark, because according to

emergency.”

are you remembering

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things?!”

Winnie turns

hair in

instinct telling me to hug the shit out

I’m

just do… I also remember how you slipped and

god!” Winnie exclaims. “I didn’t think anyone saw me! I was on my way to the

“I was heading there too and saw the whole spectacle. Kinda wish I

over, see where else she can blush. Just inhaling the scent of her hair fills me with hunger, and

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look

at Winnie, I find more things to admire about her appearance, which

the freckles

me a shy

that for me

and

“You can cut up the salad and

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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