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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

her-I don’t know why Kelly

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

***

few hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling

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

idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart

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

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speechless. I didn’t

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

is beating

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