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.”

“I want to make it up to you, so I will start by helping you chop vegetables. It’s the least

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

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fingers.

want to

unnecessary.” I don’t

visit the

fighting it!

to stone when Winnie

stand beside me. She is much

stinking adorable, and my heart flutters at the sight

It’s frustrating.

try to turn the other way,

  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.

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sigh when she grabs a knife without putting up

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

scrunchie around your arm or something?” I

beams up at me, all dazzling teeth and annoyingly cute freckles. My heart clenches, but I ignore that feeling. “But I don’t need one. Just tell

my 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

blinks up at

just this once. “It’s what

and mash down

her up. I’m mad at

it this far

life.”

that

ran into a

year of high school

so excited showing around the

of her ears turns red,

“That was a

shit happens…’

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 chance of stopping your

emergency.”

gasps. “How are

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things?!”

and Winnie turns tense when

long blonde hair

and I have to fight every instinct telling me to hug the shit out of her. I’m not a cuddler, but

me whenever I’m next

talking. “I just do… I also remember how you slipped and

god!” Winnie exclaims. “I didn’t think anyone saw me!

and saw the whole spectacle.

face turns 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, and when I’ve finished making her a

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to look away

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

not count the freckles on her

my hair,” Winnie hands me a shy smile. “I’ve never had

for

and nod at

the salad and put it

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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