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.”

seat. “I want to make it up to

klutz and would probably end

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fingers.

to

don’t want

visit

it! I’m helping!”

to stone

up to stand beside me. She is much shorter than me, head around

my heart

It’s frustrating.

to turn the

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

gorgeous, and it’s 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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hair is a mess around her head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without putting up her hair.

make her half-blind, and if Winnie doesn’t put up her hair, the chances of her

around your arm or

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

life, and I open a drawer to take out a rubber band. “First off, you need to

blinks

this once. “It’s what you

Winnie and

up. I’m mad at her,

surprised you’ve made it

life.”

that clumsy!”

ran into

of high school because you

so excited showing around the

her ears turns red,

was a one-time

shit happens…’

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

emergency.”

“How are

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things?!”

turns tense when

long blonde hair in my hands. It

every instinct telling me to hug the

whenever I’m next

also remember how you slipped and fell on

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

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

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

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have to look away by

about her appearance, which is not good. I’m supposed

the freckles on

for setting up my hair,” Winnie hands me a

for

mutter and nod at the

“You can cut up the salad

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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