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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

***

I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

He has called a

are dangling

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

idea that I

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

Jake and

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to

is in the same

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

him

help but laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare

is beating really fast.”

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

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