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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has called a

her legs are dangling down from

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I can’t

her. He called

perfect for me.

Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands

him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t