A CEO's Revenge Marriage Accidentally in Love

Chapter 54

Winnie

“Hello, Winnie! Nice to see you!” Rebel

holds up her glass for me with a big cheer. She has switched places with Logan to sit on my left side when I walk up to the table.

Alice, however, isn’t sitting down. She

stands up from her seat and gets this

sparkly look on her face before coming to hug me. “Winnie!”

“Hi!” I hug her back. “How are you?”

“I’m good. How are you?”

Before I can answer, Nathan speaks. “Here she comes, my biggest rival in love: Winnie. I swear there is a romance going on here…” he sighs but hides a smile.

“Happy to see you too, big guy,” I tell him and pat his shoulder. “Have you gotten

thinner?”

He snorts. “Shut up! I’m working out harder than ever!”

I grin. “It shows—I’m just teasing!”

People around the table snicker, including Logan. I feel welcomed sitting by the large

table the Plaza Hotel has assembled for us.

“Oh, and since you wondered, I’m feeling pretty okay,” I inform Alice and beam at her. “Mark won’t be joining us, though. He needed to take care of something urgent.”

“We saw,” Alice sits down beside me, grimacing. “But you’re fine, right? We kind of assumed it was a friendly date anyway.”

“Oh, it was,” my eyes flicker to Jake, whose cold expression turns less icy after hearing

me confirm I’m not into Mark.

Interesting…

“I

It hits me then that Jake was probably mad because I told him, “I don’t date nice guys, and then I went here with Mark. He must

have been so confused, thinking I was a

hypocrite.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude,

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why

shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

***

at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

seems to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

was rude to you, so I made

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really

say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and