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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has called a

dangling down

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

have this idea that I can’t

her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I order shots

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

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

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

Jake is talking to some girl, and my

my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

of him. The

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

and wrap my legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

“She was rude to

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on

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