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

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

klutz and would probably end up cutting her own

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fingers.

want to help

unnecessary.” I don’t want another

visit the

fighting it! I’m helping!”

to stone when

beside me. She is much

She is stinking adorable, and my heart flutters at the

It’s frustrating.

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

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

at someone who makes your heart sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at her nakes me

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around her head, and I sigh when

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

you have a scrunchie around your

heart clenches, but I ignore that feeling. “But I don’t need one. Just tell me what

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 slicing up your

Klutz?” She blinks up at

“It’s what

Winnie and

her up. I’m mad at her,

made it

life.”

not that

ran into a pole in

second year of high school

showing around the new kid?

her ears turns red, and

a one-time mistake…

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 a fond one. And you picked me, not Mark, because according

emergency.”

are you remembering these

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things?!”

Winnie turns

long blonde hair in my hands.

I have to fight every instinct telling me to hug the shit

I’m

do… I also remember how you slipped and fell on

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

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

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, and

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look away

about her appearance, which is

the freckles on

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

that for me before.”

I mutter and nod at

“You can cut up the

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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