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.

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

is a klutz and would probably

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fingers.

want to

unnecessary.” I don’t want another

to visit the

fighting it!

stone when Winnie determinedly

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

and my heart flutters at

It’s frustrating.

I can’t. I shouldn’t. I try to turn the other way, but I’m drawn in by her beautiful

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

sing oudly in your chest. Simply looking at her nakes me

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a mess around her head, and I sigh when

far? Those bangs make her half-blind, and if Winnie doesn’t put up her hair, the chances of her cutting

a scrunchie around your arm or

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

a rubber band. “First off, you need to put up your hair. I

blinks up

smile, just this once. “It’s what you

and mash

I’m mad at her, damn

made it this

life.”

that

ran into a pole in

of high school

showing around the new kid?

tip of her ears turns red, and

“That was a

shit happens…’

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 fall in

emergency.”

“How are

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things?!”

and Winnie turns tense when I

hair in my

telling me to hug the shit out of her. I’m not a cuddler,

whenever I’m next to

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

“I didn’t think anyone saw me! I was on my

too and saw the whole spectacle. Kinda wish I had filmed the entire

she can

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to look away by force.

I look at Winnie, I find more things to admire about her appearance, which is not good. I’m supposed

her, not count the freckles on her nose.

me a shy

for me before.”

I mutter and nod at the

“You can cut up the salad

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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