A CEO's Revenge Marriage Accidentally in Love

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

Winnie

Ritva’s kitchen is spotless. The floor is immaculate. Every little nook and cranny has been polished and cleaned. The handles of every cabinet are neat, and I feel so freaking proud of myself.

“Good job, Winnie!” I tell myself as I wipe

my forehead on the back of my hand,

smiling at the sparkling kitchen.

I’m so amazed by my work that I don’t

notice Jake until my back crashes into his wet form.

“Oh, sorry!”

“No problem,” his hands are on my shoulders, and he moves me aside to walk over to the tap.

I follow him with my eyes, gaping at the

view. He is only wearing a towel around his waist, and woah. Did he always look like

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I stare at the corded muscles on his back, a bit taken aback. I don’t get to admire him too much, though. He quickly turns around with a glass of water brought to his lips. “I expected you to be long gone.”

“Oh,” I straighten myself, smiling

awkwardly. “I found more and more areas to clean, but I’m done now.”

“It looks very clean in here.”

“Thank you.

He gives me a sly, calculating look. “Did you take more time cleaning just so you could lag behind?”

I miraculously manage to keep my smile. It’s easy to get distracted by Jake’s half-

nakedness, the seductive note in his sly

voice, and how he looks at me as if he wants O LOOK AT him.

Maybe? I was hoping we could talk.”

Without showing any emotion, Jake keeps

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staring into my eyes with an intensity that has me questioning whether he is pissed off or if he always looks so intimidating. Like, we have known each other for years, but I’m only now starting to REALLY pay attention

to him.

“Sure, I have time,” he walks over to the fridge, grabs a beer, and then heads over to sit by the table. I watch him pop it open, but he doesn’t even glance at me. Instead, his voice goes chillier. “Well? Start talking. What are you waiting for?”

know why. Could it be because Jake has always been approachable? The funny thing

whether or not I should open my big

mouth.

own chair. “Why

my blunt question, he doesn’t show

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exact words, yet we both know

backs. You’ve always been my partner in crime, and… I wanted to keep it that way. That’s the reason I wanted to ask you out

bit irritated by his use of past tense. “Does it mean you’re

now?”

question, and please don’t

of the corner of his lip and realize

a person within a day and all that. I

adds, “Also, aside from liking to hear

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how you include me in every ridiculous plan that your amazing mind can conjure. You’re also exactly my type appearance-

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ugly,

date.”

blinks in confusion.

“Jocks.”

can see a curious light in

“What sort of women do

Those girls that wake up looking perfect with a bun on the top of their head and some hair spilling out of it… also, if they fill

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people date also have their own skin routine and their own branded bottles, which they claim they religiously use every

don’t.”

snorts. “Do you hold a grudge toward

half teasing right now. I don’t

sounds amused. “I might need them

I laugh. “Wife-hunting…”

at me. “Yeah, so

me about the

like to date.”

women your kind is interested in

fart nor use the toilet. They are tall, with shiny hair, and look

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a filter or if they were

to bend my neck,” Jake says, grinning, and I just know he is trying to

for the war, though.

My voice is a challenge. “Then perhaps you should find yourself a tall woman and not bother with me. The Lord knows my short legs won’t grow any longer.

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he looks genuinely confused for

admit. “Like, I’m not super

I’m around a group of taller women, I feel more childish than them, you know? I

towered

back in the day. But one

everyone just grew past me. I felt pretty humiliated when all my classmates

Chester

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to compare themselves to

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