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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

the other woman’s

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter,

has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

seems to have this idea that I

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

So I wait. I order shots with

have fun,

smirks

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

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

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure

speechless. I

he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s

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