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 you, so I will start by helping you chop vegetables. It’s the least I can do.”

Winnie is a klutz and would

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fingers.

want to help you.”

unnecessary.” I don’t want

to visit the

it! I’m

stone when

up to stand beside me. She is much shorter than

my heart flutters at

It’s frustrating.

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

  1. Have there ever been a more tortured

man?

stay mad at someone who makes your heart sing oudly

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I sigh when she grabs a

doesn’t put up

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

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

her. Winnie is definitely living a dangerous life, and I open a drawer to take out a rubber

blinks up

“It’s

Winnie and mash down

to pick her up. I’m mad at

made it

life.”

that

you ran into a pole

second year of high school

showing around the

her ears turns

was a one-time mistake…

shit happens…’

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 fall

emergency.”

“How are you

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things?!”

and Winnie turns tense when I

blonde hair in my hands.

I have to fight every instinct telling me to

me whenever I’m next

I also remember how you slipped and fell on your ass

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

too and saw the whole spectacle. Kinda wish I had filmed the entire thing. It was funny.”

face turns redder, and I swallow uncomfortably. I want to touch her all over, see where else she can blush.

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to look away by force.

things to admire about her appearance, which is not

not count the freckles on her nose.

for setting up my hair,” Winnie hands me

for me

and nod

the

in a bowl.”

“Yes, sir!”

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