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.”

you, Jake, and…” Winnie is now getting up from her seat. “I want to make it up

do. Winnie is a klutz

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fingers.

want to help

I don’t

to visit the

it! I’m helping!”

turn to stone

beside me. She is much shorter

adorable, and my heart flutters

It’s frustrating.

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

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

is gorgeous, and it’s hard to stay mad at someone who makes your heart sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at

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mess around her head, and I sigh when she grabs a knife without putting up

and if Winnie doesn’t put up her hair, the chances of her cutting

have a scrunchie around your arm

dazzling teeth and annoyingly cute freckles. My heart clenches, but I ignore that

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

blinks up at me.

once. “It’s what you

and mash down

to pick her up. I’m

it this far in

life.”

that clumsy!”

into a pole

high

around the new kid?

ears turns

was a

shit happens…’

why you started to hold on to my arm. ” I smile at the memory.

emergency.”

are you remembering

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things?!”

turns tense when I

long blonde hair

fruity shampoo, and I have to fight every instinct telling me to

whenever I’m

by talking. “I just do… I also remember how you slipped and fell on your ass earlier today at the hospital.”

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

there too and saw the whole spectacle. Kinda wish I

touch her all over, see where else she can blush. Just inhaling the scent of her hair fills me with hunger, and when I’ve finished

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look away by force.

things to admire about her appearance, which

her, not count the freckles on

setting up my hair,” Winnie hands me a shy

for

mutter and nod at

up the salad and put

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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