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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

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at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from his

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

wait. I order

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

he has

“Okay, here

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

unwelcome flip, and

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

and wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do that

all soft. “She was rude to you,

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

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