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. “Yes, you are.”

Winnie is now getting up from her seat. “I want to make it up to

I really do. Winnie is a klutz and would probably end

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fingers.

to

don’t want

visit the

it!

to stone

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

heart flutters at the

It’s frustrating.

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?

who makes your heart sing oudly in your chest.

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sigh when she grabs a knife without putting up her

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

you have a scrunchie around your arm or something?” I ask.

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

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

blinks up

just this once. “It’s what you are,”

behind Winnie and mash down the

pick her up. I’m mad at her, damn

surprised you’ve made it this far

life.”

not that

ran into a pole in

second year of high school because you

so excited showing around

tip of her ears turns red,

“That was a one-time mistake…

shit happens…’

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 you, I was heavier with a bigger

emergency.”

gasps. “How are you remembering these

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things?!”

and Winnie turns tense when

hair

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

me whenever I’m next to Winnie.

also remember how you slipped and fell on your

anyone saw me! I was on my

whole spectacle. Kinda wish I had filmed the entire thing.

redder, and I swallow uncomfortably. I want to touch her all over, see where else she can blush. Just inhaling the scent of her hair fills me with hunger,

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have to look

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

count the freckles on

me a shy smile.

that for me before.”

I mutter and

cut up the salad

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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