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 a rather bitchy

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

***

The hockey guys I

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind.

a

with Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling down from his

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

this idea that I can’t hear

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I order shots with

fun, and once

smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

“Okay, here

bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

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

him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for, you

rude to you, so I made sure to

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating

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