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. “Yes, you are.”

it up to you, so I will start by helping you chop vegetables. It’s the

klutz and

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fingers.

to help you.”

I don’t

to visit the

fighting it! I’m helping!”

turn to stone when

much shorter than me, head

She is stinking adorable, and my heart flutters at

It’s frustrating.

are itching to touch Winnie, but I can’t. I shouldn’t. I try to turn the other way,

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

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

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head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without

this far? Those bangs make her half-blind, and if Winnie doesn’t put up her hair, the chances of her cutting herself are scarily

scrunchie around your arm or

but I ignore that feeling. “But I don’t need one. Just tell

my eyes at her. Winnie is definitely living a 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

She blinks

this once. “It’s what you

and mash down the

up. I’m mad at her, damn

you’ve made it this far

life.”

not that

ran into a

high school

showing around

of her ears

was a

shit happens…’

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

emergency.”

are you remembering these

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things?!”

snort, and Winnie turns tense

hair in

every instinct telling me to

I’m next to

how you slipped and fell

exclaims. “I didn’t think anyone saw me! I was

spectacle. Kinda wish

she can blush. Just inhaling the scent of her

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look

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

her, not count the freckles

hair,” Winnie hands me a

that for

welcome…” I mutter and nod

the salad and put it

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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