Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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24 Am I Crazy? (Winona)

I'm speechless. I stare at Jayden and sit down in the chair opposite him. What does this really all mean? Apart from the wish thing, which is stupid anyway, I do need to be able to get along with him from a business perspective.

There will be times we need to be out together. Maybe it is better to rip the sticking plaster off quickly and get it over with

As if he reads my mind. "A business date. That's all. Honestly, we can't always be in the office. It's just one date"

I can't help remembering the first time he asked me out.

It's junior year of high school. I watch the two fools passing notes in a math exam and one drops, floating over to land closer to my desk than to theirs. It's not that they were not brainy enough, they were just too lazy to bother focusing. Of course they had money to fall back on.

And the math teacher, commonly known amongst the students as Old Man Bulldog, is someone who doesn't tolerate this kind of behavior, no matter how much money your family has. I see he's turned around and spotted the paper on the floor.

Automatically and god knows why, I pick up the note as he advances.

"Winona? What is that?"

"Sorry, Mr. Brown. Honest mistake. I had flash cards before class, and one must have stayed in my pocket."

me cautiously. I smile

in future, be more careful. Anyone else and I'd throw out of class. But you are the last person who needs to cheat. Probably more on one flash card of yours than the class

won't be

that is how I attracted the attention of the richest student in

I was. I'd never seen him outside of class before. He'd say hi and I'd just mumble and keep walking. I've seen the movies, I know someone like him showing someone like me attention is

became almost a comfort for me. He made me smile despite myself. Before long, I was falling for his infectious attitude and

out with me!" He begs for the

"... Okay."

ask you tomorrow. No... wait. Did you

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of all his friends. I guess he really

Jayden brings a sad smile to my lips. Now here he is sitting across from me with no clue about the history we'd built together. Yet I have the same dilemma, him asking me to go out with him and me being reluctant. "Earth to Winona! Are you

consider. I'm trying my hardest to move on and

be out together for business from time to time. May as well

what the problem was, I don't think he ever really understood how our backgrounds made it so difficult. We quarreled

ever had empathy for why I felt the way I did about us. guess that would have come with time, once he'd spent time in my world more. But that time got

short.