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.”

smile. Almost. “Yes,

really hurt you, Jake, and…” Winnie is now getting up from her seat. “I want to make it up to

do. Winnie is a klutz and would probably end up

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fingers.

want to help you.”

I don’t

to visit the hospital.

fighting it!

to stone when Winnie

is much shorter than

my heart flutters at the sight of her.

It’s frustrating.

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

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

heart sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at her nakes me start to forget my anger.

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mess around her head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without putting up her hair.

has she survived this far? Those bangs make her half-blind, and if Winnie doesn’t

around your arm or something?” I

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

roll my eyes at her. Winnie is definitely living a dangerous life, and I open a drawer to take out a rubber band. “First

Klutz?” She blinks up at

smile, just this once. “It’s

and mash down

pick her up. I’m

surprised you’ve made it

life.”

that clumsy!”

when you ran into

year of high

showing around the new

ears turns red, and she

was a one-time

shit happens…’

hold on to my arm. ” I smile at the memory. It’s a fond one. And you picked me, not Mark, because according

emergency.”

are you

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things?!”

Winnie turns

long blonde hair in my

fruity shampoo, and I have to fight every instinct telling me to hug the shit out

me whenever I’m next to

myself by talking. “I just do… I also remember how you slipped and

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

and saw the whole spectacle. Kinda wish I had filmed the entire thing. It was

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

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look away by

more things to admire about her appearance, which is not good. I’m supposed to

her, not count the freckles

setting up my hair,” Winnie hands me a shy smile.

for me

welcome…” I mutter and nod

can cut up the

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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