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,

Winnie is now getting up from her seat. “I want to make it up to you, so I will start by helping you chop vegetables. It’s the

klutz and would

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fingers.

to help you.”

I don’t

visit the hospital.

it! I’m helping!”

turn to stone

me. She is much shorter than

and my heart

It’s frustrating.

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

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

your heart sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at her

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hair is a mess around her head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without

half-blind, and if Winnie doesn’t put up her

a scrunchie around your arm or

clenches, but I ignore that feeling. “But

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

blinks up at

just this once. “It’s what

behind Winnie and mash down the

her up. I’m mad

you’ve made it this far

life.”

that clumsy!”

when you ran into a pole in

of high school because

so excited showing around the

tip of her ears

“That was a one-time

shit happens…’

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

emergency.”

are

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things?!”

Winnie turns tense when I

hair in my hands.

instinct telling me to hug the shit out

I’m next to Winnie.

how you slipped and fell

me! I was on

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

touch 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

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

the freckles on her

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

for me before.”

welcome…” I mutter and nod at

the salad and put

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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